A 25-year-old man and three friends narrowly escaped being hit by a car involved in a collision that destroyed part of a vacant, historic building at 16th and U streets Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses said a silver SUV, which was westbound on U Street, ran a stop sign and was hit by an Icee truck heading north on 16th Street. Northbound drivers have no traffic signal or sign at that intersection. The building's front end was destroyed. Tuesday night, a city crew was working to stabilize the remaining walls of the unreinforced masonry building. Three-quarters of the building remain intact. The damaged parts of the roof and structure will be collapsed, said building inspector Josh Pino, overs

Yesterday a historical home at 5th and S streets came down. To be more precise, it was taken apart by a giant excavator and crushed into itself. The home has been vacant for the better part of 30 years as the owner never occupied the dilapidated building and the city forbade her from tearing it down. City officials and preservationists have spent weeks debating the fate of 506 S Street. Ultimately, the decision was in the hands of Ron O'Connor, the Operations Manager for the City of Sacramento Code Enforcement Department. Mr. O'Connor said that he had been in multiple meetings with Council member Rob Fong, with the City Manager and with preservation officials. O'Connor admitted that the m