Steve Magagnini
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Want to ask the Dalai Lama a question? Here's your chance
Auburn's General Gomez Arts and Events Center on May 17, 2018, will be hosting a live interactive event featuring the 14th Dalai Lama, one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. → Read More
Sacramento teen pleads guilty to shooting Afghan war interpreter in face with flare gun
Nearly three years after Faisal Razmal, a refugee who served as an interpreter to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was shot in the face with a flare gun in front of his Sacramento apartment, a teenager has pleaded guilty to the crime. → Read More
Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church celebrates 125 years of welcoming immigrants
Some 250 parishioners attended the Sacramento Japanese Methodist Church on Sunday, which celebrated its 125th birthday. → Read More
As Holocaust fades into memory, Sacramento fights to remember
Sunday's Holocaust Remembrance was aimed at keeping alive memories of the Holocaust at a time when studies show fewer people know about the mass extermination of Jews and others. → Read More
How a Hmong family came to celebrate its rise in Meadowview
Starting with no money or formal education, Ga Long Lee and his wife Mai Her Ly raised 10 successful children, including two police officers, a Sacramento Sheriff’s deputy, a nurse and a forensic identification specialist. → Read More
They fled the world’s worst war zone to live in Sacramento. Then, the door slammed shut.
Between October and March, zero Syrian refugees resettled in Sacramento, California, according to new data from U.S. State Department. A few years ago, hundreds were being resettled here each year. → Read More
These immigrants risked their lives for U.S. forces. How are we paying them back?
A federal investigation requested by Rep. Doris Matsui in response to Bee investigation No Safe Place finds Afghan and Iraqi SIVs, refugees who played a critical role serving U.S. forces need more help finding jobs and better information on the challenges of life in America. → Read More
It's the U.S. vs. California – who's got the winning case?
The Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit against California over its "sanctuary" laws that protect undocumented immigrants. Here's the legal road map. → Read More
'There is no secession,' Sessions declares the day after suing California
After President Donald Trump's administration sued California over its immigration policies, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in Sacramento that states cannot defy the federal government when it comes to immigration, claiming it violates the Constitution. → Read More
California leaders strike defiant tone after Trump administration sues over sanctuary laws
The Trump administration sued California Tuesday over its sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants, setting off a chorus of near-unanimous defiance from California lawmakers. US. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will lay out the details of the lawsuit Wednesday in a speech in Sacramento. → Read More
Coroner’s report reveals horrifying final moments for West Sacramento sisters
Hamdy Rouin took his own life and the lives of his daughters in West Sacramento on New Year's Eve by locking them in his car and setting it on fire, the Yolo County Coroner's office has reported. → Read More
Tom "Ross" Rosenberg remembered as Holocaust survivor, conservationist, ‘Bingo King’
Tom Rosenberg, whose parents fled Nazi Germany with him in 1938 to America where he helped preserve the American River Parkway, died in Sacramento at 85. → Read More
Financial arrangement with lawyers likely deprived Lodi terrorism suspect of fair trial, witness says
Hamid Hayat, a Muslim cherry picker from Lodi who has spent 12 years in prison after allegedly attending a terrorist camp in Pakistan, couldn’t get a fair trial because his father Umer Hayat’s lawyer had a conflict of interest, a defense witness testified in Sacramento federal court Wednesday. → Read More
FBI coerced Lodi cherry picker to confess he attended terror training camp, lawyers argue
Launching an assault on the 2006 terror conviction of Lodi cherry picker Hamid Hayat, defense attorneys began playing video snippets of his recorded FBI interrogation in court Monday in a bid to show that Hayat was led into a false confession that sent him to prison for 24 years. → Read More
‘Not all is lost.’ CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin talks ‘fake news,’ law and politics
CNN senior legal analyst, New Yorker staff writer and author Jeffrey Toobin takes on the biggest issues of our time at Folsom Lake College’s Harris Center at 7 p.m. Sunday Jan. 28. → Read More
California leaders encourage "Dreamers" to act quickly to renew their legal status
Leaders of California’s institutions of higher learning and the state’s top lawyer urged Dreamers to file their DACA renewals as soon as possible while the federal government is forced to accept them due to an injunction issued by California federal courts. → Read More
Thousands march in MLK Day event in Sacramento
The best way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday Monday was to walk the walk with people who are different, said Sacramento March for the Dream organizer Sam Starks. → Read More
Hundreds attend funeral for sisters from West Sacramento allegedly killed by father
Sophie and Sara Rouin, two sisters who were found dead along with their father in his car in West Sacramento on New Year’s Eve, were mourned by more than 200 people who attended their funeral Thursday at Salam Islamic Center. → Read More
Family to hold interfaith memorial service to honor slain sisters from West Sacramento
An interfaith memorial service honoring the memory of two young sisters who died in what police say was a murder-suicide by their father will be open to the public from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at the Salam Islamic Center in Sacramento. → Read More
Man who allegedly killed his daughters on New Year’s Eve was due in court for violating protective order
Hamdy Rouin, identified in court records, was due in Yolo County Superior Court on Tuesday on charges that he violated a protective order. Rouin allegedly killed himself and his daughters, Sophie and Sara, on New Year’s Eve. The trio was found in a car near West Sacramento City Hall. → Read More