Zamora News

On a warm Thursday afternoon, Julia Dyer sipped soda from a Styrofoam cup while she sat on a bench outside the High Street Market & Deli in SLO.

What: A detention hearing is scheduled for Tylar Marie Witt. The 14- year-old was arrested last week in connection with the slaying of her mother, Joanne Witt, 47, in El Dorado Hills.

Edwin Ramos, now 22, was arrested at his home in El Sobrante early June 25, 2008, three days after Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot in their car in the Excelsior district while coming home from visiting a relative.

Corona officials are embroiled in a turf war. With water supplies under tight control and the threat of drought looming, the enemy -- lush, green and requiring countless gallons of water to sustain -- is grass.

County committees, a direct link between the farm community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are a critical component of the day-to-day operations of the Farm Service Agency.

A legislative budget committee on Wednesday rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut state employees' paychecks by an additional 5 percent, as part of the ongoing effort to balance a badly out-of-whack state budget.

He was the 1,204th pick overall in the 50-round, three-day spectacle, which took place in New Jersey.

Saying the state needs to cut elsewhere or find more revenue before cutting state workers' pay, about 80 state employees gathered Wednesday outside the state office building in downtown San Bernardino to protest impending budget cuts.

It took a King City resident nearly three years to find a stable job the last time she was laid off in 2001.

Jose Javier Zamora, the youngest of 17 children, was the first in his family to graduate from high school and now is the first to graduate from college.

Starting today and through the end of the month, Riverside County law enforcement agencies will crack down on motorists and their passengers who don't buckle up - resulting in fines as high as $435. It's all part of a statewide ''Click It or Ticket" campaign.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's recently unveiled rooftop sculpture garden by Jensen Architects and CMG Landscape Architecture is filled with many enormous works, including an 18-foot-high Cor-Ten steel stele by Ellsworth Kelly.

Thirty-five years ago, Orange Rotary made the decision to publicly honor members of the Orange Police and Fire Departments through an annual luncheon event to demonstrate pride in the dedication, professional ability, and quality of the members of the two community protective organizations.

J im Zamora, SEIU, Local 1000 spokesman, just released the union's take on today's Republican refusal to vote for AB-964 in the Assembly.

In the lobby of a Planned Parenthood office on the city's north side, advocates have launched an effort they hope will draw renewed attention to HIV, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and drive more teens and young adults to seek testing and treatment.

As The Real World: Brooklyn prepares for its season finale on Wednesday night, The Los Angeles Times chatted in New York with the series' Mormon cast member, Chet Cannon .

We talked to Chet Cannon of "The Real World: Brooklyn" the other day in preparation for MTV's biopic of Pedro Zamora that airs Wednesday.

Fifteen years ago, Pedro Zamora became the first openly gay, HIV-positive main character on TV.

Residents of the town of Yolo were briefed Monday night about changes that will put the entire town in a 100-year flood zone, jacking up insurance rates and restricting construction.

Proposed new flood maps have Yolo County residents upset about the prospect of paying higher insurance rates.