Picture this:  It’s 9:30AM on a Wednesday morning. You’ve worked hard since arriving at the office and you deserve a break…a coffee break!  You’re ready for a little tasty morsel, some stimulating conversation, maybe even some hot gossip so you can regroup and be productive for the rest...more of the day.  Now, there’s a solution for you that’s meaningful, fun and delicious – a coffee break with a purpose!

Working closely with the City of Sacramento, Access Sacramento will be adding a fifth room to our operations at the Coloma Center. Known as the “Rough & Ready” room, the renovated space next to the Media Lab (Mariposa Room) will become the new office space for the Executive Director and...more other staff. Additionally, the current office space will be renovated with new paint and carpet, the first time in 25 years.

ELK GROVE, CA - The (12) St. Francis Troubadours upset the (5) Monterey Trail Mustangs 61-50 to open the Sac-Joaquin Division I Section Playoffs on Tuesday night.

Playing on the road, the Troubadours (16-12) - owners of eight section championships, kept it close the entire game and...more attacked the Mustangs from the tip.

Monterey Trail lost their first game after rattling off five straight games. Mustangs head coach Louie Corpuz, in his first season turned around the girls basketball program and led the team to a 22-6 overall record that will end in a first round playoff exit.

Up next for St. Francis, they earn the right to face the (4) Kennedy Cougars on Thursday. The Cougars narrowly defeated (13) Napa 51-49 on Tuesday.

ELK GROVE, CA - The (7) Sheldon Huskies opened up the Section Playoffs with a lopsided 71-51 win over the (10) Beyer Patriots of Modesto, on Tuesday night.

With their seventh straight victory, the Huskies advance to Thursday's second round in the Division I Section Playoffs and will...more head to Fairfield to face (2) Armijo, who beat Elk Grove's (15) Franklin Wildcats 70-44 on Tuesday night.

Losers of two straight games, Beyer exits the playoffs with an overall record of 21-4 under head coach Paul Basey.

Check out all of the Girls High School Basketball Sac-Joaquin Section Playoff scores from Tuesday night.

by Maria Barrs, News10 General Manager

NEWS10 is pleased to announce the launch of a major initiative to help improve our community.

It's called "Reading Connects," and its purpose is to help build a stronger community, one reader at a time.

NEWS10 is teaming up...more with parents, businesses, schools, libraries and volunteers to improve the literacy rate in our area.

We are combining the power of television, the web, and social media with the power of good people who want to make a difference.

Reading is one of the keys to a successful and productive life.

A minor investment of your time can change the path of a child's life. Your business or group can create new energy for your neighborhood.

We are here to help with information, resources, and opportunities–opportunities for you to help build a better community.

Reading connects us to new worlds.

Reading connects families and communities.

 

What’s In That Lunchbox? Superfood for Kids Last week, I wrote an article called “Remember ‘Lunchables’?”, which talked about the dangers of prepared foods and school lunches. You can read about it here.

Four Sacramento area hospitals and care providers have joined forces to protect student athletes.  This collaboration was announced today at an event at John F. Kennedy High School.

The Sacramento Valley Concussion Care Consortium, consisting of Kaiser Permanente, Mercy Neurological...more Institute, Sutter Health and UC Davis Health System and Wells Fargo's Student Insurance Divison, aims to improve identification and management of sports related concussions. 

Its goal is to provide student athletes with increased access to local medical professionals trained in this area.

The Play It Safe program works with health care providers, schools and families to promote awareness and education on concussion care management.  Partnering with teams and  coaches, the program mission is to protect the health and financial well-being of young athletes and their families.

Currently the Jesuit Junior Marauders and Granite Bay programs, and the Del Oro, C.K.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA - Red light cameras made millions of dollars for the state of California last year. Critics say those cameras are often inaccurate. Law enforcement says the cameras help save lives.

MAP: RED LIGHT CAMERAS LOCATIONS

There are 22 red light cameras in...more Sacramento County. If a driver is caught on camera running a red light or making a right hand turn without coming to a complete stop, they'll receive a ticket for $470.

In 2011 red light cameras in Sacramento County generated about 10 thousand tickets and brought in nearly $5 million.

WHERE DID THE MONEY GO:
-The state: $1.2 million

-Sacramento County: $1.9 million

-City of Sacramento: $111,000

-Other cities in Sacramento County: Remaining $1.4 million

Critics claim that red light cameras are inaccurate. And others, argue the cameras are big money makers.

"There are privacy, accuracy, and due process issues with the system in

SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento firefighters responded to a fire at a home on 14th Ave. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in South Sacramento around 4:07 a.m. on Monday.

According to firefighters on scene, the fire was easily extinguished.

Firefighters said the home was vacant,...more but the fire could have been caused by squatters.

The Sacramento Fire Dept. is investigating the cause of the fire.

SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Sac-Joaquin Section released the postseason schedule and bracket for Girls basketball - where the defending state champion St. Mary's Rams of Stockton are going for their fifth straight Section title.

The Rams return as...more the top seed in Division II and will be expected by many to return to Power Balance Pavilion on Saturday, Mar. 3 to defend their Section Championship.

Below is a look at each Division bracket and the first round matchups to begin the Section playoffs.

Division I:  CIF SAC-JOAQUIN GIRLS DIVISION I BRACKET:

The top seeded Pleasant Grove Eagles (19-8) head into the playoffs on after dropping the final game of the season to the No. 7 Sheldon Huskies (20-7). The loss was the only Eagles loss in the Delta River League.

On Monday, Feb. 20, Chavez of Stockton and Pitman of Turlock will play for the rights to face the Eagles in the opening round of the playoffs.

70th Anniversary Of Japanese Internment In World War II

Today is the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 placing more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps. The California Museum located in Downtown Sacramento currently has the...more exhibit, "Uprooted! Japanese Americans During WWII," open to the public.
Through photographs and artifacts - including crafts and other artwork made in the internment camps - this exhibit surveys a century of Japanese American history in California.
For more information: http://www.californiamuseum.org/exhibits/uprooted-japanese-americans-during-wwii
Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print - Tule Lake Segregation Center 1943, by Pete O' Crotty

SACRAMENTO, CA - A woman reported missing earlier today is now home safe and sound.

According to Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos, Donna Delgadillo, 43, was last seen Friday afternoon, at approximately 3:30 p.m. at her residence in the 9100 block of Parducci Way and was...more therefore reported as missing.

She had believed to have been driving a 1998 gold Toyota Camry with CA license # 4CBR335 was considered to be at-risk due to her unstable mental and emotional condition.

By the time of this posting, Ramos reported that Delgadillo had returned home and was alright.