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What better way to say it’s Christmas Eve in Sacramento? Cloudy skies, cool temperatures and a hint of roasted turkey. A wild turkey made a fatal connection with a power line Sunday afternoon in south Sacramento, briefly cutting power to more than 4,000 customers of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. SMUD said 4,248 homes and businesses of the Little Pocket and Greenhaven neighborhoods, among others, lost power about 12:15 p.m. A spokesperson for the utility said a member of the gobbling, parading and, sometimes, ornery game species was to blame and that crews were quickly dispatched t......

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose. Inmate Elijah Muhammad was found unresponsive inside the island’s George R. Vierno Center about 9:45 p.m. Sunday. He died at the jail, making him the 10th detainee to die in city custody this year. It’s believed Muhammad, a native of Kentucky, had overdosed, possibly on fentanyl, sources with knowledge of the case said. “It’s just really sad that DOC can’t keep people alive,” Anisah Sabur of the #HALTsolitary Campaign said Monday. “This gentleman died in a cage on a holy da......