Seattle officials have been in talks for eight months on plans to build a new arena, and have had their eye on the Sacramento Kings, according to news reports this weekend in Seattle.

This photo taken from the Kerry Park Viewpoint in Queen Anne shows the Seattle skyline with the Space Needle at left and Key Arena where the Sonics played below at right with the stadium for the Seattle Seahawks football and another stadium for the Seattle Mariner's baseball behind Key Arena at right. The Seattle Sonics basketball team based in Seattle, Washington played in the NBA from 1967 until 2008. Following the 2007-08 season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City, and now plays as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Photo taken February 23, 2011 in Seattle, WA

A former sports equipment store in Seattle has a mural of Detlef Schrempf, one of the stars of the SuperSonics team that lost to Chicago in the 1996 NBA Finals. Teammates on the Sonics squad included Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton, Sam Perkins and Hersey Hawkins.

A maintenance worker remains employed at Twin Rivers Unified School District, despite pleading no contest to stealing thousands of dollars of copper wiring from the district.

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Revionics President and CEO Marc Hafner and founder Jeff Smith have guided the Roseville-based company through a decade of economic turmoil that, Hafner says, has actually increased demand among retailers for the firm's analytical services.

Revionics President and CEO Marc Hafner, left, and founder Jeff Smith have guided the Roseville-based company through a decade of economic turmoil that, Hafner says, has actually increased demand among retailers for the firm's analytical services.

Roseville-based Revionics' software analyzes numerous factors including shoppers' household incomes, customer behavior, geographic economics and retailers' financial objectives to help determine the best pricing strategies.

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Glen Davis was driving to work this morning when he saw the late-model four-door sedan lodged in the side of a tree on Sunrise Boulevard in Citrus Heights.

Rain-watchers will get a glimpse of the wet stuff starting tomorrow night and Tuesday.

Sacramento police generally acted professionally, appropriately and according to policy in the arrest and transport of Tyrone Smith, despite his eventual death in custody, according to a recent report by the city's police oversight office.

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John O'Mara recoiled Friday at the mere thought of it. Talk about himself? It's not in his attention-avoiding DNA. All he wanted was to slide out of his fourth-floor corner office in the Sacramento District Attorney's Office. He saw no need to look back on the career during which he oversaw every county murder prosecution going back five presidents.

John O'Mara led the District Attorney's Office major crimes unit for 31 years.

Deputy District Attorney John O'Mara, left, presses defendant Jack Barron during his 2000 trial; he was convicted of killing three relatives. O'Mara retired Friday after serving as a Sacramento County prosecutor for more than 38 years.