Fair Oaks News

Five-year-old Billy Brown of Lodi reacts to a statement made by Debbie Larson of Rescue, right, during a dance where two ladies vie for the hand of the man in dance by saying something provocative.

Steven Zuniga demonstrates a foot checkup on store employee Melissa Bradway of Fair Oaks as Tina Thornton, center, looks on at Shoe Fix and Podorthic Care in Auburn Tuesday.

An elderly Sacramento couple moved into their home remodeled by volunteers nearly a year and a half after police arrested the unlicensed contractor who allegedly left the house in shambles and emptied the couple's bank account.

The man convicted of driving the pickup that forced three Del Campo High School students off a Carmichael road, killing one and injuring two others in 2007 was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison Tuesday.

Viking for a day What: Who doesn't want to don a horned "helm"? It hardly matters that historical evidence doesn't back the notion that Vikings wore horned helmets.

Budget cuts are prompting the Sacramento region's largest fire department to reconsider how much holiday-decorating help it can give park districts and community organizations.

The new owners of Slocum House are serving up several changes at the landmark restaurant, including the revival of lunch service and a possible expansion.

Dear Straight Talk: I've hadA a crush on "Kaz" since last year. We're both freshmen.

I would like to know if there is a safe way to eradicate wild violets. I am continually trying to pull them up, only to allow them to spread again because of the many bulbs attached down deep on their roots.

The Sacramento-area Boy Scouts of America will collect e-waste at St. Mel Catholic Church, 4745 Pennsylvania Ave.

Citrus Heights police arrested a driver who this morning led officers on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed his 1995 Saturn into an oleander bush on San Juan Avenue in Fair Oaks.

Susan Silva was frustrated by her lawn, so she transformed her backyard into a drought-tolerant landscape covered with foliage plants and ground covers.

A batch of amendments to a massive water bond bill was submitted to the state Senate's clerical desk Monday, and one, as it turned out, had nothing to do with water.

Anyone who wants a seasonal flu shot in Sacramento County is going to have a tough time getting it.

In the end, no records were broken. But for a few minutes late Sunday afternoon, zombies stomped out the steps of a familiar dance in a courtyard between shops at the Marketplace at Birdcage, welcoming Halloween early.

It has been dubbed the "vintage of the century." Michael La Tondre, a Fair Oaks wine aficionado, decided to celebrate the vintage's golden anniversary with style.

Michael La Tondre of Fair Oaks assembled the tasting of a lifetime. On Saturday night at San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton hotel, La Tondre gathered a dozen friends - both wine aficionados and casual drinkers alike - and tasted through 14 bottles.

AUTUMN CRUZ acruz@sacbee.com Czeslawa Belson, center, joins Jon Nutting and his daughter Amethyst in a mass dance to the beat of Michael Jackson's video smash hit from 1983, "Thriller." Seventy-six other dancers also participated Sunday in the event at the Marketplace at Birdcage.

Six months after coming down with H1N1, which led to the first H1N1-related closure of a local school, a Fair Oaks student is doing well.

Dear Straight Talk: I'm a 16-year-old girl and my brother is 13. Our alcoholic stepfather gets drunk every night and becomes verbally abusive toward all of us, especially my brother.