Sacramento News

The August Peace Event of August 9th, 2008 in Sacramento, CA. For 22 years, the August Peace Event's mission is to remember the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and their victims and why nuclear warfare must never happen again.

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JoAnn Fuller served as California Common Cause's grassroots organizer when they passed public financing measures in Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Today she serves as Common Cause's Associate Director, with a special interest in media issues.

Rev. Bob Oshita of the Sacramento Buddhist Church

Patsy Byers, August Peace Event planning member

Dr. Bill Durston, MD, past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sacramento Chapter, and candidate for Congress

Pamela Vergun, Ph.D., Sociologist and Author, "A Dimly Burning Wick"

Jennifer Kocsis, a winner of the Physician for Social Responsibility 2008 Scholarship Essay Contest

Mary Youngblood, Grammy winning flautist
Duration 1:09:30

Interview with Linda Roberts, candidate for California's 5th Congressional District in Sacramento
Duration 37:10

Great Speeches and Interviews' Past Programs

A serial robber deemed the "stuffed-shirt bandit" pleaded guilty Friday to seven counts of bank robbery, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said.

A federal judge granted the city of Vallejo bankruptcy protection on Friday, ruling against the city's employee unions.

Sacramento County Sheriff's Homicide detectives have developed information that now leads them to believe Amandeep Singh Dhami is the second suspect responsible for the August 31, 2008 shooting at the ...

Federal prosecutors are examining a volunteer program run by former NBA star Kevin Johnson, a candidate for Sacramento mayor.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento is planning for 15,000 homes north of its downtown, most of them on the site of a former railyard.

Mayor Heather Fargo on Thursday picked up an endorsement from City Councilman Kevin McCarty.

A southwestern Idaho bird farm has been quarantined after two birds there were found to have a bird flu virus, but Idaho Department of Agriculture officials say it is not the same virus that has spread through ...

Crows perch atop a tree stump normally submerged in Folsom Lake in July. Lake levels have dropped dramatically, and long-range forecasts based on computer modeling hold no hint of a break from the drought.

By DON THOMPSON The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California state senator said Thursday that he is seeking a legal opinion to determine whether the LPGA Tour's language requirement for players ...

California is taking initial steps to prepare for another dry winter by trying to ensure that farmers and cities will have adequate water supplies in 2009.

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The Republicans are heading into a national political convention without a script.

Sacramento police have arrested five people suspected of shooting BB guns at more than a dozen people.

The big five met in Sacramento, trying to break the state budget stalemate, but it did no good.

A fire destroyed a house in south Sacramento on Tuesday afternoon. The blaze broke out at a home in the area of Culpepper Way and Hamburg Drive .

Dino Cortopassi, a wealthy farmer who raises crops in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is seen with his dog, "Tank," at his Black Hole Habitat near Thornton, Calif., Wednesday, Aug.

Firefighters are trying to slow a blaze that broke out in a thickly forested region of the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento.

The California Senate on Friday tried to pass a budget compromise - something the Assembly has tried and failed to do several times in the past two months.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect in a fatal shooting during a weekend sports festival.