Fairfield News

Almost 19 years ago in Vacaville, a 6-year-old girl in foster care was kidnapped from her new home, bound and gagged with duct tape, raped and then abandoned in freezing temperatures in a rural field.

The Fairfield Police Activities League at the Matt Garcia Youth Center is teaming up with IHOP restaurant to sweeten the center's homework program.

The new carpool lane on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Fairfield will open ahead of schedule Thursday afternoon, transportation officials said.

Solano and Napa students can meet representatives from nearly 30 colleges and institutions at the second annual fall college fair sponsored by Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Benicia, and Napa.

A Fairfield man was arrested Wednesday in connection to a shooting that occurred in Vacaville last month.

Fairfield voters spoke loud and clear Tuesday, re-electing Mayor Harry Price for yet another term.

A Winters police officer was arrested early Tuesday on child molestation charges, authorities said.

Election Day is Tuesday and things are heating up as the races come down to the wire.

The former Fairfield man accused of molesting Haitian street orphans at a charity he established to help them will remain in jail indefinitely after his plan to post bond today was withdrawn.

Hundreds of dedicated volunteers have flocked to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fairfield this week to help staff there mend sick and injured birds shipped in from the Pacific Northwest.

Police arrested two men and are seeking a third in connection to a cache of drugs and guns that were seized in Fairfield on Tuesday.

Fairfield police arrested three men Thursday on suspicion of kidnapping a Suisun man for ransom.

A fight involving an estimated 11 teens and an unrelated kidnap/extortion plot had Fairfield police swarming the city on Thursday.

The hearing was expected to take hours, but lasted only minutes. Rather than press their request to have Douglas Perlitz released on $5 million bond and into the custody of a dozen Fairfield residents, his lawyers withdrew their bid Wednesday.

A Superior Court judge on Monday ruled a Fairfield lawyer, who fatally stabbed his disabled neighbor three years ago because he erroneously believed the man had molested his daughter, won't get help from his insurance company in the lawsuit filed against him by the victim's family.

To protect their patients from the H1N1 flu virus, Northbay Healthcare is restricting family members and non-patient visitors under the age of 16 from its hospitals in Vacaville and Fairfield.

Starting today, Caltrans will be closing down Interstate 80 at North Texas Street for a few hours each day for ongoing construction and demolition of the street's old overpass.

Fairfield police arrested a 19-year-old man and are looking for an 18-year-old man believed to be involved in a shooting in the city earlier this week.

The mother of slain Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia is among seven candidates vying for two open seats on the council in the Nov.

With a passion to help children succeed, German Lopez has already been serving the city of Fairfield.