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Diamond earrings. Gucci shoes. A Dolce & Gabbana dress. No, not my Christmas wish list.

A number of Placer County charities were stunned and honored when they discovered that Virgil Harrigan had left them roughly $5 millionwhen he died in January at the age of 91.

A 24-year-old woman who worked as an office manager for a Roseville dentist has been sentenced to one year in the Placer County Jail for embezzling more than $47,000.According to prosecutor Joseph Hoffmann, Holly Ann Keate of Rocklin embezzled the $47,431 from the office between August 25 and January 22, 2009.

Did a former Roseville Electric supervisor break the law by giving contracts to family and friends? Read the orriginal story here.

If a deal can be reached with Placer County, a Roseville affordable-housing developer could soon be building on a controversy-prone parcel off Silver Bend Way in Bowman.

All reports from the hospital regarding the condition of referee Joel Miller are positive.

The only dive club in Northern California is holding an open house on Saturday. The Dos Rios Divers have been around since 1992, but not too many people know about the club.

Merridee Smith demonstrates how to make a wool, silk & tinsel vessel, one of her many creations on display at Old Library Art Studios.

Roseville Arts invites visitors to its Blue Line Gallery to assist needy families through a holiday food and toy drive.

Sheriff's detectives have arrested the suspect in Thursday's harrowing kidnapping of a 35-year-old Roseville woman and are looking for an accomplice.

Police say Cloud 9 Restaurant and Ultra Lounge was just a little too footloose for its neighborhood.

Placer County investigators were looking for a carjacking suspect who allegedly kidnapped a woman and held her in her own car for several hours Thursday as he drove through Placer and Sacramento counties, according to authorities.

Charlie Brown, seen in this file photo from the 2008 election, has accepted a Washington post.

One man was killed and another faces DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges after a car carrying four people slammed into a tree Saturday morning, according to a Roseville police spokeswoman.

Roseville police said they arrested a driver who fired shots in a fit of road rage near Sutter Roseville Medical Center.

What many people may not realize is that roadside ditches, neighborhood curb/gutter systems and parking lot drainage inlets generally carry runoff directly streams, creeks and lakes with absolutely NO TREATMENT.

Roseville police are looking for two men, one of whom fired three shots in a road-rage incident Tuesday afternoon near Sutter Roseville Medical Center.

Several longtime frequenters of the Roseville Livestock Auction were caught off guard by the auction's recent closing.

In an effort to encourage responsible pet parenting, a Placer animal shelter is offering free birth control.