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Tanishq Abraham, 11, (center) at American River Colleges graduation last May. Tanishqs sister Tiara, 9, also studies at ARC.

Child prodigies attend ARC

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid July 29, 2015

For Tanishq and Tiara Abraham, being an 11-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl includes typical sibling rivalries, such as who gets to play as which character in Mario Kart for the Nintendo Wii. “She...

ARC adjunct and novelist shares insight into young adult fiction

ARC adjunct and novelist shares insight into young adult fiction

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid May 30, 2015

For American River College adjunct professor and writer Erika Mailman, choosing to write her first young adult novel, “Haunted,” was mainly motivated by the story she was struck with one night after...

Speech students go beyond their assignment and make suicide prevention video

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid May 7, 2015

For five students in professor David Austin’s Speech 331 class, attending a suicide awareness walk at Sacramento State University just wasn’t going to be enough in their project to help the cause of...

Mustafa Shaheen: Portrait of an artist

Mustafa Shaheen: Portrait of an artist

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid May 4, 2015

Mustafa Shaheen looked like a million bucks as he walked hurriedly around Witt Gallery, making final preparations for the opening of his first solo art show, “Friends and Sometimes Friends.” On a small...

Granddaughter and grandmother graduate together

Granddaughter and grandmother graduate together

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid May 4, 2015

When Pat Brown and Kayla Childers walk together at graduation at the end of this semester, it will mark the ending of a three-year period where the two, grandmother and granddaughter, spent every day at...

Carmichael man arrested after shooting and police standoff

Carmichael man arrested after shooting and police standoff

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid April 27, 2015

Update April 27, 2015, 8:59 p.m.: The name of the main suspect is Jeremiah Hankins, 35. Hankins has been booked on five felony charges including attempted murder, according to a press release by Sgt....

Travis Lannings mugshot after his arrest Monday morning. His first court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday, and he faces a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

Mace attacker awaits court date

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid April 21, 2015

A former American River College student who brutally attacked a woman and her dog with a medieval morningstar-styled mace in the early hours of March 23 is now being charged with attempted murder, but...

Travis Lanning, seen here posing with the mace that he used to attack a woman and her dog Monday, posted numerous similar photos to his public Facebook account two weeks before the incident.

Sacramento mace-attacker unable to appear in court for the second day in a row

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid March 26, 2015

For the second day in a row, Travis Lanning, the Sacramento man who brutally attacked a woman and her dog with a medieval-styled mace Monday morning, was unable to appear in court due to a psychotic episode. The...

Travis Lanning, seen here posing with the mace that he used to attack a woman and her dog Monday, posted numerous similar photos to his public Facebook account two weeks before the incident.

Breaking News: Court date for mace attacker postponed due to ‘psychotic episode’

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid March 25, 2015

Travis Lanning, the Sacramento man who attacked a woman and her dog with a medieval-style mace on Monday morning, was scheduled to make his first court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, but was unable...

Travis Lanning, seen here posing with the mace that he used to attack a woman and her dog Monday, posted numerous similar photos to his public Facebook account two weeks before the incident.

Breaking News: Sacramento mace-attacker is a former ARC student

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid March 24, 2015

A former American River College student was arrested for attacking a woman and her dog with a medieval morningstar-styled mace near Auburn Blvd. and Garfield Ave. on Monday morning. The suspect, Travis...

Nobel laureate visits ARC to remember her mother, a former professor

Nobel laureate visits ARC to remember her mother, a former professor

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid March 20, 2015

Nobel laureate and Johns Hopkins professor Carol Greider wasn’t sure if she’d ever stepped foot on American River College’s main campus before Monday. The only time she’d had a reason to was in...

Five years later, parents mourn their daughter

Five years later, parents mourn their daughter

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid March 11, 2015

Bill and Vee Arroyo know their daughter, Monica Anderson, wasn't perfect. They just wish she was alive.  As the five year anniversary of Anderson’s March 13, 2010 murder approaches, the married couple,...

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