Winters News

Bells, horns, a pump organ and sweet singing voices fill the Winters City Park each evening this week and next week as teen actors rehearse for the Winters Shakespeare Workshop production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

How many times have you forgotten about your sprinkler, or witnessed someone else do the same? Local researchers have found that the water running off residential lawns, across sidewalks, down gutters, and into storm drains often contain harmful chemicals which make their way into local waterways.

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Motorcycle madman Jesse James has set a new land speed record for a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and he did it in a car that packs modern technology into a vintage racer more than 40 years old.

A Winters man will stand trial for the murder of his wife, despite the absence of her body, the District Attorney's Office announced.

Supporters of Leticia Barreles Ramos, a Winters woman missing since April 12 and presumed dead, are planning a candlelight vigil this week.

A fatal double shooting Friday night appears to be a murder-suicide, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office.

Solano County sheriff's officers are investigating a suspected murder-suicide at a house south of Winters on Friday evening.

Three more violent deaths in the normally serene community of Winters have residents reeling.

Solano County Sheriff's investigators are seeking clues into a shooting Friday night that left two dead inside a rural home near Winters, according to Sheriff's spokesperson Paula Toynbee.

Two people were killed and Solano County investigators were trying to piece together the circumstances following a suspected murder-suicide at a home outside Winters Friday night, Solano County authorities said.

A search of the Putah Creek Road area west of Interstate 505 yielded no sign of a missing Winters woman.

Investigators used cadaver dogs Friday to search both the north and south sides of Putah Creek in Yolo County for a missing woman.

A man accused of killing his wife in the small town of Winters pleaded not guilty to murder charges Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court.

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Winters is a Yolo County farming town between Davis and Vacaville. The town, which recently opened a farmers market for locally grown produce, is a budding artist community with boutiques, restaurants and galleries.

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The husband of a Winters woman missing since April 12 was arrested Thursday night in Dixon, Winters police officials report.

Police have arrested a man sought in connection with the disappearance and presumed slaying of Leticia Barrales Ramos, of Winters.

Staff photo by Susan Meeker Kathy Foster, left, of California Family Foods in Arbuckle explains rice milling, drying and storing to Berkeley educator Mary Alice Rathbun, Consul General Gao Zhansheng, wife Yanlai Wang and others during a tour Saturday.