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We are not investigating this as a criminal matter," said Bledsoe. Immediate family did not wish to comment on the accident Monday, said his father, Matt Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti graduated from Sonora Union High School in June, where he was a member ofthe wrestling,footballand track teams. He received numerous All-League awards throughout his career at Sonora High School. He was to start Cuesta College, a public community college in San Luis Obispo County, this week and compete in track and field as a pole vaulter, said his Sonora High track coach Frank Garcia in an email Monday. Last season at Sonora High, Sanguinetti was the best in the Mother Lode League for

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Bryce Sanguinetti competes at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championships at Elk Grove High School on May 28.

A champion athlete fresh from Sonora Union High School suffered a major head injury and died last week in an accident in San Luis Obispo, days before starting college. Bryce Sanguinetti, 18, fell from the balcony of an apartment complex shortly after 11 p.m. on Thursday on the 800 block of Leff Street, according to Lt. John Bledsoe of the San Luis Obispo Police Department. He was dead at 11:47 a.m. Saturday, according to the coroner's unit of the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department. H ospital staffwas unable to release further information on the death Monday, and the fall remains under investigation by the police. "At this point it looks like a tragic accident.

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A jury of four men and eight women was selected Monday to decide the fate of a Twain Harte woman accused of killing well-known demolition derby driver and Lu c e ra Sonora Police Department volunteer Rick Roberts in February 2014. Cheryl Lynn Lucero, 46, of Twain Harte, was arrested June 18, 2014, and charged with first-degree murder. About 60 people filed into the Department 1 courtroom Monday at the Tuolumne County Superior Courthouse for the final day of the jury selection process.

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A Columbia man w h o pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor was sentenced Monday. Judge Donald Segerstrom denied probation for Trevon Leemont Davis, 20, of Columbia,

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