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When Sam Lyon fled with his family he was sheltered by a Sikh temple in Sacramento. His experience gave him new insight into the president’s travel ban. Since his family evacuated on Sunday on orders from officials fearful that the spillways of the Oroville dam would break, Sam Lyon said he has...

Punjabi charter school to open in West Sacramento By Melody Gutierrez West Sacramento will be home to the first public Punjabi charter school in the country this fall. Approved by the Washington Unified School District board this month, the Sacramento Valley Charter School will teach...

Sikh slain, wife wounded in Sacramento Share By Kim Minugh The turmoil of Balbir Singh Dhami's life in recent years could offer Sacramento police a glimpse into why he was gunned down on a North Laguna Creek street Thursday morning: a fugitive son accused of murder, allegations of aiding...

Second Sikh shooting victim in Sacramento suburb has died [updated] The second of two Sikh men gunned down on their afternoon walk in Elk Grove, Calif., last month has died, members of the Sacramento-area Sikh community said Friday. Gurmej Atwal, 78, died about 2 p.m. Friday, said...

November 29, 2010: Earlier today, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) called on local authorities and the FBI to initiate a hate crime investigation into a vicious attack on a Sikh American cab driver in Sacramento, who was allegedly called Osama bin Laden as he was...

Sacramento cab driver Harbhajan Singh is recovering from severe injuries he received at the hands of two men he drove into West Sacramento early this morning. 56-year-old Singh believes the men intended to kill him, but he was able to get away. In a press release, West Sacramento Police...

source: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=77143 　 Overnight fire guts Sacramento Sikh temple C. Johnson - March 12, 2010 - 1 hr ago 　 SACRAMENTO, CA - All day long, members of a Sikh congregation have come to see the burned remains of their temple on Power Inn and Rangeview...

Sat Sri Akal Why is that we Sikhs don't have a TV channel yet. In USA on dish network there are all kinds of religious channels. There is bunch of channels from Arab countries and they even have one from Pakistan. Media is the best tool if want to get your point across. Here in Sacramento i...

Sat Sri Akal Most sikh Punjabi think Sikh is a culture. Most of them go to Gurudwara Sahib just to be there because it makes them feel good and for social things. Some don't even go inside in front of the Guru but rather just go to "langer hall". I have observed only elders, more than 40 will...

SACRAMENTO — The state Board of Education declined to act Thursday on new complaints from the Sikh community about a seventh-grade textbook the Sikhs say is offensive. More...

Sikh leaders are unhappy that a seventh-grade history book was published without a photo of the founder of their religion. More...

A lesson in religious tolerance is playing out in Yuba city after 19-year-old Harvir Singh Uppal was initially told he would have to shave his beard if he wanted to be a police department cadet. More Local News More...

Country's Largest Sikh Festival Being Held in Yuba City (News 10 Sacramento) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11goblpgl/*http%3A//www.news10.net/storyfull.asp?id=14090 Array Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:51:12 GMT An annual religious festival in Yuba City has drawn an estimated...

Country's Largest Sikh Festival Being Held in Yuba City (News 10 Sacramento) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11goblpgl/*http%3A//www.news10.net/storyfull.asp?id=14090 Array Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:51:12 GMT An annual religious festival in Yuba City has drawn an estimated...

Sikh Faithful mark Holy Event (The Sacramento Union) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11msg57nm/*http%3A//sacunion.com/pages/california/articles/6746 Array Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:06:18 GMT YUBA CITY, Calif.—More than 60,000 members of the Sikh faith from across California...

BERLIN—In a letter sent two years before becoming pope, Benedict XVI expressed concern that the Harry Potter books “erode Christianity in the soul†of young people, a German writer says. The comments came in an exchange of letters between then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Gabriele Kuby, a...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday’s funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. The dead included the police chief of the...