Elk Grove police provide 10 safety tips for holiday season
Elk Grove police will ramp up shopping center patrols -- with officers on foot, in squad cars and in unmarked vehicles during the holiday season. Car break-ins, pick-pocketing, robbery and other crime...
View ArticleSacramento County Sheriff's Department joins Facebook, Twitter
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department recently has grown its social media presence on Twitter and Facebook as part of its community outreach efforts. A few months ago, the agency joined Facebook,...
View ArticleMan fatally shot in Del Paso Heights
By Darrell Smith dsmith@sacbee.com A man was fatally shot on a Del Paso Heights street Tuesday night, and police continue to search for the shooter. The man's body was found at North Avenue and May...
View ArticleBicyclist shot and killed in Del Paso Heights identified
A teen shot and killed Tuesday night in Del Paso Heights when he was riding his bicycle to a relative's house has been identified. The Sacramento County Coroner's office said the homicide victim is...
View ArticleRoseville police report car burglars getting away with iPads, laptops
Roseville police report that residents are leaving cell phones, laptops and other devices in their vehicles, making them easy pickings for car burglars. Sometimes, the vehicles are left unlocked....
View ArticleThird person in Loomis poison mushroom case dies
A third person has died as a result of being fed poisonous mushrooms earlier this month at a Placer County senior care facility, the state Department of Social Services has confirmed. The name of the...
View ArticleThree convicted in Cordova robbery-murder of casino winner
A Sacramento Superior Court jury today convicted three men of robbery and murder in the Dec. 29, 2008, shooting death of a man who prosecutors say was targeted for the $16,000 he won gambling at an...
View ArticleUpdate: Early-morning crash kills one person, injures another on 14th Avenue
A person was killed and another injured this morning in a single-vehicle accident on 14th Avenue between the neighborhoods of Tahoe Park and Tallac Village. Sacramento police say a blue four-door sedan...
View ArticleMan stabbed to death at Red Hawk Casino in Shingle Springs
By Matt Weiser mweiser@sacbee.com A man was killed in a stabbing Wednesday night at Red Hawk Casino in Shingle Springs. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office reported that deputies were dispatched to...
View ArticleSheriff's deputies seek Auburn Boulevard cigarette store robbers
By Bob Shallit bshallit@sacbee.com Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies are seeking the identities of two people suspected of the armed robbery of an Auburn Boulevard store. The say the suspects, a man...
View ArticleFire burns hydroelectric plant near Oroville
A massive fire burned Thursday in one of the hydroelectric generating units connected to Oroville Dam on the Feather River. The fire began at 7 a.m. Thursday in the Thermalito Pumping-Generating Plant,...
View ArticleTeen identified in fatal Red Hawk Casino stabbing
By Melody Gutierrez mgutierrez@sacbee.com Police have identified the man stabbed to death Wednesday night at Red Hawk Casino as nineteen-year-old Gene Mcarn. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office...
View ArticleBee carrier killed in crash is identified
By Tony Bizjak tbizjak@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee newspaper carrier killed in a car crash early Thanksgiving morning has been identified by the Sacramento County Coroner as Kim Ngoc Nguyen, 37, of...
View ArticleDeath of prisoner in Lodi jail is under investigation
By Melody Gutierrez mgutierrez@sacbee.com An in-custody death is being investigated in Lodi, where officers found an inmate unresponsive during a jail check Thursday, according to the Lodi Police...
View ArticleElk Grove man accused of burglarizing Rocklin garages, sheds
An Elk Grove man has been arrested by Rocklin police on suspicion of burglary after officers responded to a report of a prowler. Kenneth Oryan Linden, 26, is suspected of taking items from several...
View ArticleAsk Sacto 911 crime Q&A: Was arrest made in fatal shooting of CCC worker?
Bee reporters answer questions about area crime news, trends and other issues. QUESTION: Has there ever been an arrest made in the killing of Jonah Lamar Simms? He was shot and killed on Nov. 21, 2008....
View ArticleAsk Sacto 911 crime Q&A: What became of teen who killed friend near Mather AFB?
Bee reporters answer questions about area crime news, trends and other issues. QUESTION: In the late 1980s or early '90s, a teenager was found killed outside of Mather Air Force Base by the canal off...
View ArticlePilot dies in Calaveras plane crash
By Ed Fletcher efletcher@sacbee.com The pilot of a small plane has died after his aircraft crashed at around 3:42 p.m. Saturday, three-quarters of a mile south of the Calaveras County airport. The...
View ArticleByclist, 45, dies in Truckee accident
By Barbara Barte Osborn Bee correspondent TRUCKEE -- A Los Gatos man died Saturday after his bicycle and a vehicle collided at the west end of downtown Truckee. Robert Koechlin Jr., 45, was pronounced...
View ArticleCrash near Placerville kills four, including two children
By Loretta Kalb lkalb@sacbee.com A horrific two-car collision on Highway 50 just east of Placerville claimed the lives of four people Saturday night, including two children, when a car headed west in...
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