Fair Oaks News

Citrus Heights police arrested a driver who this morning led officers on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed his 1995 Saturn into an oleander bush on San Juan Avenue in Fair Oaks.

Susan Silva was frustrated by her lawn, so she transformed her backyard into a drought-tolerant landscape covered with foliage plants and ground covers.

A batch of amendments to a massive water bond bill was submitted to the state Senate's clerical desk Monday, and one, as it turned out, had nothing to do with water.

Anyone who wants a seasonal flu shot in Sacramento County is going to have a tough time getting it.

In the end, no records were broken. But for a few minutes late Sunday afternoon, zombies stomped out the steps of a familiar dance in a courtyard between shops at the Marketplace at Birdcage, welcoming Halloween early.

It has been dubbed the "vintage of the century." Michael La Tondre, a Fair Oaks wine aficionado, decided to celebrate the vintage's golden anniversary with style.

Michael La Tondre of Fair Oaks assembled the tasting of a lifetime. On Saturday night at San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton hotel, La Tondre gathered a dozen friends - both wine aficionados and casual drinkers alike - and tasted through 14 bottles.

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.

Six months after coming down with H1N1, which led to the first H1N1-related closure of a local school, a Fair Oaks student is doing well.

Dear Straight Talk: I'm a 16-year-old girl and my brother is 13. Our alcoholic stepfather gets drunk every night and becomes verbally abusive toward all of us, especially my brother.

Here's your road rules question of the day: Is it legal to ride a seatless bicycle on the streets of this great state? Not now.

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

Sacramento County jurors convicted a man Friday of second-degree murder in connection with a hit-and-run wreck that killed a teenage girl.

Three people have been arrested in connection with an illegal anabolic steroid manufacturing ring, investigators said Thursday.

The 26-year-old house in Fair Oaks was a product of its time, all-electric and power hungry, built in an era of Rancho Seco nuclear power.

Hours: Dinner: 5:30-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday; lunch: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday- Friday; midday: 2:30-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Full bar: Yes Vegetarian-friendly: Yes Overall 3 1/2 Ella remains a premier destination with a wine list that won't disappoint any enthusiast.

Roseville resident Kristine Hanson was a household name in the Sacramento area in the 1970s as a meteorolist for KCRA.

Sierra Oaks Elementary School officials say parents of students can pick up their children at the usual closing time Friday after the school was locked down much of the day as a precaution while sheriff's deputies looked for two suspected robbers.

Three people have been arrested and one suspect is still on the loose after a jewelry merchant was stabbed outside of a well-known Sacramento jewelry store this morning.

Dear Straight Talk: I haven't told anyone, but I'm gay. I wish I wasn't and I've tried to change, but nothing works.