Rancho Cordova News

Goleta author Big Jim Williams will be among the writers featured at Assistance League of Sacramento's Second Annual Authors' Day Event next month in Rancho Cordova.

Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com Jennifer Hohnholz and her 17-month-old son, Jaden, play in Rancho Cordova with dad Chris Stiles.

A Sacramento Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict today on three defendants accused of murder in the shooting death of a man who prosecutors say was targeted over a $16,000 win he had scored at a local Indian casino.

Thanks to an observant citizen in Rancho Cordova, authorities arrested two boys who attempted to steal a safe from inside a home, the Sacramento Sheriff's Department said.

In a few weeks it will be National Nutrition Month. How will parents, children, teachers, and health care teams get together to celebrate it in your town? The time to prepare is now.

I was truly blessed to have found the profession I did. It was a struggle back in the early '70s, when the war in Viet Nam was winding down.

The Cordova Recreation and Park District Board of Directors will meet this week, for the first time since one of the district's employees was murdered as he arrived to work .

Lezlie Sterling lsterling@sacbee.com Michael Thiemann is settling in as the new executive chef at Ella after a career that started in Sacramento and has taken him around the world.Thiemann shakes hands with his new boss, Randall Selland of The Selland Group, on his first day as executive chef at Ella.

Two toddlers wandering the streets in Rancho Cordova wearing only their diapers were found by strangers on Tuesday morning, but their mother insists it was an accident and they're safe with her.

Rescue workers were finally able to save a deer that was struggling to say afloat in a canal in the Rancho Cordova area for about three hours on Tuesday.

A deer found himself in it up to his antlers on Tuesday when he got into the Folsom South drainage canal and could not get out.

Three people were killed in a crash on the westbound side of Highway 50 near Folsom Boulevard at 12:41 a.m. Monday.

Maria Medina serves up a healthy meal in her Rancho Cordova home with 17-year-old daughter, Janet, behind her.

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A large semi truck carrying cars snagged some overhead San Francisco Municipal Railway wires at a busy Civic Center intersection Thursday afternoon, bringing down the lines and snarling traffic.

The acquisitions are part of Donahue Schriber's strategic plan to buy retail properties in California's coastal communities and the Pacific Northwest, a news release said.

Dan Lungren lives in Gold River, an unincorporated community outside of Sacramento, Calif., that wants desperately not to be seen as part of its undesirable neighbor Rancho Cordova--despite the fact that most in the area who don't live there see it as a community of confused, affluent people who like to pretend they don't live in Rancho Cordova.

The Grim Reaper paid a visit to Elk Grove this week. No, he wasn't picking up folks from the town's senior housing developments.

Jan. 31--It's called "gate jumping," and it's one of the most dangerous driving maneuvers on Sacramento streets -- where impatient motorists dodge around rail crossing safety gates to beat a coming train.

Los Angeles investors purchased the 90,435-square-foot center at Bradshaw and Old Placerville roads, minus the part where Fresh & Easy will operate.