A wildfire that started June 24 ended up destroying 254 houses on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe. The Angora Fire was the worst wildfire to strike the High Sierra basin in modern times.
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Filmmaker Michael Moore addresses a legislative briefing and joins with nurses to promote a single payer health care intitative. He and several hundred nurses marched to the Crest Theatre to watch an Sacramento screening of his film SiCKO.
Twenty current or former state employees who have been playing the same lottery numbers as a group for 10 years are the winners of Saturday's $72 million Super Lotto jackpot purchased at a Sacramento liquor store.
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The inferno that destroyed the trestle seemed to ignite just after 5:30 p.m. in a thin line along a 100-yard section of the tracks north of the river and just west of the Capital City Freeway.
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