El Dorado County News

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 20-year-old man on Sunday on suspicion of raping a 21-year-old woman at a house party on South Upper Truckee Road on the Fourth of July.

I find this local story from California , headlined "I-5 Strangler suspect Kibbe offered plea deal," quite troublesome: A prosecutor said Thursday that he would allow Roger Kibbe, accused of being the so-called I-5 Strangler, to plead guilty to six murders and serve life in prison rather than face the death penalty at trial.

Jack Sweeney says he has pursued changes needed for the plan to function as intended.

The pilot killed in a crash just after takeoff at Lake Tahoe Airport on Sunday afternoon has been identified as Dr.

Probation officer, Larry Cantwell, prepares for court. Autumn Cruz acruz@sacbee.com Buy Photos Ralph Thomure, the Proposititon 36 Coordinator for the Progress House Inc., left, applauds the progress of Proposition 36 participant, Tracey Daniel of Kelsey.

Audio Archive > KXJZ's Insight > Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Sac Sheriff's Cuts - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department may have to lay off even more deputies than it originally expected.

Officials have eradicated two marijuana gardens with about $25 million in crops from a rural spot in El Dorado County.

El Dorado County Animal Services officials are looking for owners of two dogs who bit two people early this week in separate incidents.

Emergency responders are in recovery mode after a man in his 20s was presumed to have drowned in the American River near Coloma after his raft flipped.

El Dorado County is tapping the star quality of local residents and entrepreneurs in a bid to draw worldwide attention to its natural, historical and cultural riches.

Police announced the arrests of four more suspects Friday in what investigators are calling the gang-related stabbing of a 14-year-old boy at house party on Palmira Avenue home on June 17.

El Dorado County investigators found a butcher knife, a bloody towel and a pregnancy test kit inside the home where a 47-year-old woman was fatally stabbed.

Narcotics detectives have eradicated a large marijuana patch in El Dorado County believed to be grown by Mexican nationals.

Jun 24, 2009 9:59 am US/Pacific PLACERVILLE, El Dorado County New court documents show that drugs, poison and a suicide note were found in the San Francisco hotel room where two teens stayed after the girl's mother was found stabbed to death in her El Dorado Hills home, according to authorities.

El Dorado County officials will spend the summer looking for ways to cut about $2.5 million from the preliminary budget that goes into effect July 1. Even before approving a 2009-10 proposed budget on Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors was warned that lagging revenues and higher-than-expected unemployment insurance costs would force additional cuts ...

A move by one Lake Tahoe Basin water quality agency to fulfill recommendations by the California-Nevada Tahoe Basin fire commission came under legal challenge by basin environmental groups last week.

Two years have past since the Angora fire was sparked by embers from an abandoned, illegal campground fire near Seneca Pond.

The two teen suspects arrested in the murder of an El Dorado Hills woman last week planned to kill themselves while on the run, according to a search warrant issued to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department and obtained Tuesday by news media.

Tylar Marie Witt, the 14-year-old accused along with her boyfriend of killing her mother, showed little emotion as she appeared in a Placerville courtroom Monday morning.

Tylar Witt, the 14-year-old El Dorado Hills girl accused of killing her mother will be in court today.