Citrus Heights News

Investors will get some guidance about the economy this week from data issued not by the government, but by big retailers in the form of third-quarter earnings reports.

A special needs dog, Murphy was dropped off at A Chance for Bliss. With good care, he's improving! photo by Carol Terracina Hartman Halloween is over and leftovers abound.

Convicted murderer Edward Wycoff - facing the death penalty for killing his sister and brother-in-law - stopped his nephew Wednesday from making a plea on his behalf that he spend the rest of his life in prison.

The effort to keep Sacramento air clean by limiting fireplace smoke on certain days is now in effect.

Andi Dierkes, a Citrus Heights resident takes a look at the '80s Rocker costumes that Halloween Boo-tique associate Kristina Shatz pulled for her.

Four suspects are under arrest and more arrests are expected after Placer County Sheriffa s detectives broke up a large-scale identity theft ring Tuesday.

A haunting dilemma faces a Citrus Heights woman whose run a haunted house for the past 14 years.

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AUTUMN CRUZ acruz@sacbee.com Czeslawa Belson, center, joins Jon Nutting and his daughter Amethyst in a mass dance to the beat of Michael Jackson's video smash hit from 1983, "Thriller." Seventy-six other dancers also participated Sunday in the event at the Marketplace at Birdcage.

Retail giant Walmart has decided to postpone its test program to ban plastic bags from its checkout stands until after the holidays.

A Citrus Heights engineering firm received international honors for its design of a Sacramento fire station.

A 27-year-old man was injured in a shooting during the evening commute Wednesday on Highway 580 in Oakland, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

Edward Wycoff, serving as his own attorney in a capital murder trial in Martinez, took the witness stand Tuesday and described in rambling detail the events that led up to Jan.

Shoppers at the Walmart stores in Folsom and Citrus Heights soon will have to bring their own bags or buy some at the checkout counter.

Thousands of people remained without power more than a day after a powerful storm lashed Northern California with strong wind and heavy rain.

Shrinking enrollments and budgets bludgeoned by state cuts have several area school boards considering closing schools.

An El Dorado Hills man is in custody along with a Fair Oaks couple for allegedly being part of an anabolic steroid manufacturing ring.

A former Citrus Heights resident defending himself against charges that he killed his sister and brother-in-law in their El Cerrito home argued Wednesday that the couple's 20-year-old son was better off without his parents.

A Filco Inc. appliance and electronics store in Citrus Heights was destroyed Wednesday when the rainwater-heavy roof collapsed.

A man in Citrus Heights was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time during a fall storm that sent trees falling throughout the region on Tuesday.