Sacramento News

The Placer County Sheriff's Department arrested eight suspects Tuesday night at a Loomis home along Auburn Folsom Road.

A nonprofit tolerance center in midtown Sacramento, championed by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, could get a vital economic boost from an unlikely source: a mammoth $10 billion water bond proposal.

Seven suspected gang members are facing charges in connection with an attempted kidnapping and assault last month at a Northern California casino.

A 19-year-old student has died after crashing his car into a tree early Sunday morning, according to officials.

Officers responded to the area of Amtrak and the Dennys at 3rd and J St. Officer had observed two male Blacks running fast N/B across the Amtrak property.

A Sacramento County trucker will be executed for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.

A trainee driver, who crashed a "gambler's special" bus into a ditch in a horrific accident that killed eleven people and injured dozens more, was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years and four months in state prison.

Ida grew into a hurricane for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before heading for the southern United States.

Originally published November 6, 2009 at 4:30 p.m., updated November 6, 2009 at 5:11 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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A 36-year-old woman was killed Saturday morning after being hit several times while trying to retrieve some boxes that had fallen from her car on Interstate 80 near Watt Avenue, according to officials.

A California Corrections Officer is now facing charges for allegedly smuggling weapons and drugs into the new Folsom prison.

In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo, Rosana Mendoza, 14, left, gets a hug from her sister Bianca, 4, before a rally in support of Proposition 8 to ban same sex marriage in Sacramento, Calif.

Disturbing new evidence has been filed in the case of last month's beating death of a student at California State University, Sacramento, with a detailed description of the vicious attack and bizarre statements by the suspect.

To say that Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson rolled out their relationship carefully is an understatement.

Formal fundraising efforts begin later this month for a Pony Express Monument in Sidney.

The Sacramento State Student that beat to death roommate Scott Hawkins has been charged with murder.

'Come on down!' Contestants guess retail values for prizes on TV's longest-running game show.

Two local educators are among five " California Teachers of the Year'' named Thursday by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, who chose one of the San Diego honorees for a national competition.

Listen to the report Cash, firearms, computers and video games were some of the items reported stolen in the rash of home burglaries.