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A Sacramento man who was allegedly driving while under the influence of an intoxicant lost control of his vehicle and struck a concrete bridge wall on the Yolo Bypass, and leading to a three-vehicle accident.

The 12-year-old Davis boy grabbed the wheel of the family station wagon when his father, Bill Marsh, suffered a nearly fatal heart attack and blacked out while driving Nov. 9. Daniel steered the speeding car away from oncoming traffic and slammed it into a wall to stop it.

You might expect a lengthy philosophical discussion from a volume titled "Why Beer Matters," but this story is actually about many things: an e-book penned by an expat beer writer living in Prague, the handcrafted book it inspired, and the resurrection of a Polish beer style.

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The Sacramento City College Davis Center - in the West Village neighborhood on the UC Davis campus - has added several features as the program moves toward the first anniversary of its new building.

Federal officials are seeking public comments on a new contract allowing the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency to withdraw 10,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Sacramento River.

The 10th annual Davis Film Festival is slated for Sunday, June 23, at the Veterans' Memorial Theater, 203 E. 14th St. The festival is a one-day a marathon of films from noon to 9 p.m. Feature-length films and shorts from around the world and Yolo County will be presented in all genres: narrative, documentary, experimental and animation.

UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling, one of the nation's most influential transportation thinkers and policymakers, is the recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize, sometime called the Nobel Prize for environmental science.

Cities and counties could dramatically restrict the information they release to the public without explanation under a bill approved by the state Legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Yellow crime-scene tape and police cars returned to the 4000 block of Cowell Boulevard on Monday, this time two doors down from the condominium where an elderly couple were found brutally stabbed to death on April 14. By that evening, Davis police had announced the arrest of a 16-year-old boy in connection with the murders of longtime attorney ... (more)

Police in Northern California say they have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of killing an 87-year-old attorney and his wife.

A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with the murder of an elderly couple in Davis, a family member has told CBS13.

The correlation of shellfish size, the time frames of the movement of the first humans out of Africa, and the archaeological remains of shellfish consumed by Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age people in North Africa and Europe argues for a coincidence in the growth of human populations with early man's first movement out of Africa according to ... (more)

The Alpine valleys are warming: From 1980 to 1999 the region warmed three times the global average.

Thanks a lot, guys: According to new research, your preference for younger mates could have caused menopause to arise in women.

The Mondavi Center at the University of California Davis is one of 15 venues hosting this year's Davis Music Fest.

At its meeting Monday, the Modesto City Schools board will get an update on efforts to engage the community and develop student leadership.

Out of school and out of a job. Disconnected. Stuck. A generation at risk. A scarred generation.

Ellen Pontac and Shelly Bailes moved in together in Davis in 1974. They were in love and intended to be partners for life.

In the old days – we're talking the late 1950s and early 1960s – the loudest opposition to fluoride in drinking water came from right-wingers, in places like the John Birch Society, who called it a communist plot.