Sheridan News

He falls to the ground, victim of a heart attack. The medics arrive. "Good God, get him to a hospital, quick..." There are helicopters overhead, sirens, flashing lights, breaking glass.

Share + Oct 5, 2009 11:11 pm US/Pacific Reporting Mike Dello Stritto SHERIDAN, Calif.

Crime scene investigators, homicide detectives and other Sheriff's personnel search the property where the body of a man was discovered Monday afternoon.

A Sacramento, California, man has pleaded guilty to charges for his role in an international scam that netted sensitive information on tens of thousands of Internet users and then used that data to open fraudulent Wal-Mart credit cards.

A man found dead Friday in a rural area of Placer County was probably murdered, according to a sheriff's department report.

Trucks will be spraying for mosquitoes in three areas of Placer County beginning from midnight to 3 a.m. this morning, according to a news release from the Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District.

A Sheridan man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting another man with screwdriver, the Placer County sheriff's deputies said.

The first birds this year in El Dorado and Placer counties have tested positive for West Nile virus, authorities said.