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Curtain comes down for cabaret at 10th & K

By Marcus Crowder - Published: 12:00 am

California Musical Theatre has turned out the lights and dropped the curtain on the Cosmopolitan Cabaret.

Kaepernick to start

By Matt Kawahara - Published: 12:00 am

SANTA CLARA – Coach Jim Harbaugh waited until game time two weeks ago to anoint Colin Kaepernick as the 49ers' starting quarterback and until Wednesday to do the same last week. This time, he's not letting the uncertainty linger.

Now, that was a gully washer (more ahead)

By Anne Gonzales - Published: 12:00 am

Heavy rain in Sacramento floods streets throughout the region

Mother Nature's delivery of stormy triplets to the Sacramento area dumped more rain in a five-day window than in the entire month of January, typically the wettest month of the year.

California lawmakers hug, joke, put off acrimony for another day

By Jim Sanders and Torey Van Oot - Published: 12:00 am

For one glorious day, Capitol bickering gave way to bipartisan hugging, dreaming and back-patting Monday as 39 freshmen were sworn into office with the legislative class of 2013.

Swearing-in at the Capitol

Book of Dreams: Computer would help mother find prescription for success

By Deb Kollars - Published: 12:00 am

A year ago, Catherine Odurokwarten was 19, single and overwhelmed as she raised her infant daughter.

Capital lands a pro soccer team

By Dale Kasler and Ryan Lillis - Published: 12:00 am

It's a second-tier soccer league, and the team will play its home games at a community college.

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Michael Durham / AP

This Friday Nov. 30, 2012 photo provided by the Oregon Zoo shows a newborn female Asian elephant calf in the elephant maternity ward with her mother Rose-Tu at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore. The Oregon Zoo says Rose-Tu gave birth to the 300-pound female calf at 2:17 a.m. Friday, and the youngster is healthy, vigorous and loud.
Autumn Payne / apayne@sacbee.com

Catherine Odurokwarten, 20, gets her 19-month-old daughter, Kylie-Marie Gonzalez, ready for bed. Afterwards she will work on studying her flash cards, memorizing the generic and brand-names for hundreds of pharmaceutical medications. Book of Dreams readers are asked to donate money to buy Odurokwarten a computer that will help her with her studies with the pharmacy technician program at Charles A. Jones Career and Education Center. View videos, galleries and read stories.
Hector Amezcua / hamezcua@sacbee.com

Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance is sworn-in as he holds three-year-old daughter Sophia during the first day of session at the State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 .
Hector Amezcua / hamezcua@sacbee.com

Two-year-old Ava Perea looks at the gallery as she is carried on her father Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, D-Fresno after he was sworn in during the first day of session at the State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 .
Kelly Cestari / AP

In a photo provided by the Association of Surfing Professionals, Chris Ward, of the United States, competes in the third round of the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach near Haleiwa, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Ward advanced to the next round.