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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Police in the California state capital of Sacramento say that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was among 19 demonstrators arrested during a demonstration of anti-Wall Street sentiment. The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/oI2tNu ) reports that the 53-year-old Sheehan was booked early Sunday on suspicion of unlawful assembly and failing to follow police orders to disburse.

Suspect Is Rasaan Zawadi SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) -- A 21-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with the attack of a woman that was captured on video and posted online, according to the Sacramento Police Department. Rasaan Zawadi was taken into police custody for assault with a gang enhancement, says a news release, adding that officers do believe this crime was gang-related. Police said they're still looking for a second person involved in the attack, and urge anyone with information to call the department. On Oct. 12, police learned of the attack -- which was likely posted on the Internet...

Pictures that I took from 2 days at the Un-Organized Occupy Sacramento Protest. (10/6 and 10/9)

On "Mexican Independence Day" in Sacramento, the state capital is routinely turned into a giant Mexican flag for the celebration. Davi Rodriguez of Save Our State did what he so frequently does around California, tows and parks his sign calling for illegal aliens to leave America. That didn't sit too well with the Mexican revelers... VIDEO LINK BELOWDavi is called a racist - big shock there - and also gets a nice little veiled threat from the woman who said they "could" destroy his sign and write all over it, but "we're better than that". How sweet.

The start of waterfowl hunting season on public lands in the Sacramento Valley has been delayed by a week due to lingering effects of a wet winter.

Filmed Saturday, March 19, 2011, this a clipped version of the events that unfolded at the downtown Hyatt, Sacramento, CA during the Republican State Convention. E+ Productions had a crew there to capture the protest to use within their documentary feature film, "WHERE'S FRANK?" , but no one could have predicted what would happen next.

Chickens are no longer backyard outlaws in Sacramento. With a unanimous vote tonight, the City Council passed an ordinance that will allow city residents to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their back yards starting Nov. 1. ...Dr. Glennah Trochet, the county's public health officer, said she has spoken with state health officials and poultry experts at UC Davis and neither recommended striking down a backyard chicken ordinance because of concerns over disease, including the bird flu.

KCRA Television reports that concealed carry permits are up dramatically in Sacramento, California. According to reporter Danielle Leigh, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office has approved more concealed carry permits this year than in the history of the department. While neither she nor the spokesman for the Sheriff's Office mention it, this is directly attributable to the agreement reached by the Second Amendment Foundation and the CalGuns Foundation with the Sheriff's Department where "self-defense" is now recognized as showing "good cause". The reporter asks the Sheriff's Department spokesman whether the rise in CCW permits means things are "out of control" and...

Homeless men and women – weathered by the elements and carrying bags and backpacks – are getting a chance to tell their side of the story in federal court about how the city of Sacramento treats them. In a highly unusual case that focuses on their nightly searches for places to sleep, the city's down and out are pitted against city police who are charged with enforcing a local ordinance prohibiting camping in undesignated areas for more than 24 hours at a time. The civil class action, brought on behalf of all homeless people in Sacramento who have lost tents,...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There is now a shocking new strategy to fight copper crime. Street lights are now staying on 24-hours a day in one Sacramento neighborhood and the city is banking on live wires to keep criminals away. The city now figures keeping them turned on will save money, by warding off copper thieves; keeping the lights on mean live wires, and the unlucky thief who doesn’t know better could be electrocuted. It’s quite a warning, from a city that’s been hit hard by the copper crime.

Monday, April 18, 2011, from noon until 4pm, grassroot organizations from across the state will come together to "Reclaim America, United." Sponsors of this event are Citizens Reclaiming Constitutional Liberty PAC (CRCLPAC) and Tea Party United. This years event will not only focus on the United States' ever growing budget, but will show that the Tea Party Movement is United in order to claim Victory in 2012. Grassroot organizations from across Northern California are coming out to attend and share information with their fellow grassroots activists to be taken back and implemented in their own communities after the event is...

A state Assembly committee dominated by Democrats this morning killed two bills that sought to require public officials to report suspected illegal immigrants and prohibit employers from knowingly hiring the immigrants. Freshman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, an activist with the Minuteman movement, proposed an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigrants because he said the federal government is doing an inadequate job protecting the borders.

An Arizona-like law to combat illegal immigration has a snowball's chance in Phoenix of passing the California Legislature, but freshman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks (San Bernardino County) is giving it a shot. Donnelly, who has patrolled the California-Mexico border as part of the militant Minutemen citizen group, held a rally at the Capitol today for his bill, AB26. The bill would make a number of changes in state law, including requiring law enforcement to verify the immigration status of anyone who is arrested and suspected of being in the country illegally. It also would make it illegal to limit...

As the Anaheim City Council gets ready to vote in a few hours on issuing bonds to fund improvements to that city's Honda Center - the possible future home of the Sacramento Kings - there's still work being done on the home front. State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is considering a request by city officials to carry a bill barring Anaheim from moving forward on the bond unless Sacramento is guaranteed the Kings will pay off a loan they owe City Hall.

On April 14th, we are co-sponsoring a rally with Howard Jarvis Tax Payers Association on the west steps of the Capitol.We will meet at 9:00, have an address by Jon Coupal and then we will go into the Capitol and lobby. [That otta be good!] At around 11:00, we will again meet on the west steps and have another speaker and we will be done by noon. More information will be coming soon in a separate e-mail. On April 16th, our "Patriot Freedom Ride" will be taking off from Renegade in Grass Valley by 8:30 am. We have much more...

Dorothea Puente may finally be gone, but she is hardly forgotten. The Sacramento serial killer, who died Sunday at 82 in the skilled nursing facility at the Central California Woemn's Facility in Chowchilla, is mentioned in at least 10 books still available on Amazon.com, including this gem from author Shane Bugbee: "Cooking with a Serial Killer, Recipes From Dorothea Puente."

(Barbara Simpson, 560KSFO Radio Host, mentioned the following, and I found the main info at stoptheillegals.com) Progam Summaries/Sunday March 20, 2011 Program NotesUrgent Message from CA Assemblyman Tim Donnelly * Action Alert UPDATE: THE NEW DATES ARE APRIL 4TH AND 5TH! See below. Patriots, Yesterday, as the Vice Chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, I sat and listened to over a hundred witnesses in favor of Assembly Bills 130 and 131 (Cedillo). Witnesses consisted of tax-taking unions, pro-illegal alien activist groups, dozens of unapologetic illegal students whose educations we subsidize, and the UC and CSU system representatives, as well...

A man in midtown Sacramento who once hung a swastika banner in the front window of his Newton Booth home to prevent the next-door neighbors from renting their house was taken into custody for violating a court order this morning. Joe Ongaro, an electrical contractor, was taken into custody after police served a search warrant and arrest warrant this morning about 7:30 a.m. at the man's home near 25th and U streets. "It is related to a court order barring him from harassing his neighbors," said Sacramento Police . . .

It looks like the gangbangers who made a small memorial in front of the IHOP on Advantage Way in Sacramento where was murdered have nad their memorial destroyed by a motorcycle vigilante.  This past Sunday FOX 40 reporter John Lobertini and camerawoman Rebecca Little were assaulted by friends and relatives of a gangbanger shot after an altercation took place between him and another gangbanger inside IHOP. The murdered banger was 27-year-old Chester Jackson, and the reporters were there to interview some people who may have been able to shed some more light an incident that is becoming all too...

News Crew Attacked At Natomas Murder Scene SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Grieving family and friends attacked a reporter and photojournalist from a Sacramento news station Sunday as they covered the aftermath of a deadly shooting in north Natomas. KTXL reporter John Lobertini and photojournalist Rebecca Little were attacked at an IHOP restaurant on the 2900 block of Advantage Way by a number of bystanders who had gathered at the site of the murder. Video captured by CBS13 news crew a short distance away shows several people shouting profanities at the news crew at about 4:00 p.m. as a growing crowd began...