August News

Today, Yolo County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mike McGowan announced the appointment of Patrick Blacklock as Yolo County's new county administrator.

The focus on two men accused of killing a Tracy woman in August shifted Thursday from their status as a married couple to the bloody murder scene they're charged with leaving behind.

In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

NBC has scheduled next year's Emmy Awards for August, instead of September when they're usually aired.

City officials are moving toward paying $300,000 to settle a federal lawsuit in which a former board and care home worker said he was the subject of excessive police force and a subsequent cover-up. The lawsuit stems from an August 2004 incident near 38th Avenue and Suter Street in which Uganda Knapps, who was working at the time at a residential ...

My son, "Terry," is 30 and newly divorced with two sons. My husband and I have been helping him since he had a hard time finding a job.

California's export trade is showing signs of improvement after being battered all year.

By now, everyone knows the rule: While driving, it's a big no-no to hold up a cell phone to your ear and chat away the commute.

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors appointed Marjorie Rist, a five-year employee of the Probation Department, as chief probation officer.

A Burlingame man with eight DUIs still had a valid driver's license when he got his ninth in January because he apparently never hurt or killed anyone and many of his previous convictions were outside a 10-year cutoff period used by the Department of Motor Vehicles to assess drivers, a department official explained Monday.

AT A CERTAIN point, the bureaucratic response of public officials is simply not enough.

Nearly 3,000 more beds and an influx of new correctional officers are part of the $110 million conversion of a local youth prison into California Institution for Men operations.

At the beginning of an evening worship service at the First Assembly of God church, the Rev.

In June of 2009 the city of Los Angeles put tough new water restrictions into effect, aimed at getting citizens to cut water use by 15 percent, since the area is in the third year of a drought.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 8:00 am US/Pacific NEW YORK 1 of 4 Miss California Carrie Prejean participates in the 2009 Miss USA Pageant on May 13, 2009.

Another former SK Foods executive has been charged in Sacramento federal court, the latest expansion of a sprawling case of fraud, bribery and price fixing in the tomato-processing industry.

The state Office of the Inspector General will publicly release the findings of a special review Wednesday that includes parole information about kidnapping and rape suspect Phillip Garrido.

The legal war between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers is over.

The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling companies.

The family of 65-year-old Robert Lee Adams made an emotional plea to the public last August.