El Dorado County News

Audio Archive > KXJZ's Insight > Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Insight: Sac Sheriff's Cuts / Wildfire Defense / El Dorado / Sound Advice Sac Sheriff's Cuts - The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department may have to lay off even more deputies than it originally expected.

Officials have eradicated two marijuana gardens with about $25 million in crops from a rural spot in El Dorado County.

El Dorado County Animal Services officials are looking for owners of two dogs who bit two people early this week in separate incidents.

Emergency responders are in recovery mode after a man in his 20s was presumed to have drowned in the American River near Coloma after his raft flipped.

El Dorado County is tapping the star quality of local residents and entrepreneurs in a bid to draw worldwide attention to its natural, historical and cultural riches.

Police announced the arrests of four more suspects Friday in what investigators are calling the gang-related stabbing of a 14-year-old boy at house party on Palmira Avenue home on June 17.

El Dorado County investigators found a butcher knife, a bloody towel and a pregnancy test kit inside the home where a 47-year-old woman was fatally stabbed.

Narcotics detectives have eradicated a large marijuana patch in El Dorado County believed to be grown by Mexican nationals.

Jun 24, 2009 9:59 am US/Pacific PLACERVILLE, El Dorado County New court documents show that drugs, poison and a suicide note were found in the San Francisco hotel room where two teens stayed after the girl's mother was found stabbed to death in her El Dorado Hills home, according to authorities.

El Dorado County officials will spend the summer looking for ways to cut about $2.5 million from the preliminary budget that goes into effect July 1. Even before approving a 2009-10 proposed budget on Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors was warned that lagging revenues and higher-than-expected unemployment insurance costs would force additional cuts ...

A move by one Lake Tahoe Basin water quality agency to fulfill recommendations by the California-Nevada Tahoe Basin fire commission came under legal challenge by basin environmental groups last week.

Two years have past since the Angora fire was sparked by embers from an abandoned, illegal campground fire near Seneca Pond.

The two teen suspects arrested in the murder of an El Dorado Hills woman last week planned to kill themselves while on the run, according to a search warrant issued to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department and obtained Tuesday by news media.

Tylar Marie Witt, the 14-year-old accused along with her boyfriend of killing her mother, showed little emotion as she appeared in a Placerville courtroom Monday morning.

Tylar Witt, the 14-year-old El Dorado Hills girl accused of killing her mother will be in court today.

A federal appeals court has thrown out a child molestation conviction that scandalized El Dorado County a decade ago, ruling the defendant didn't get the opportunity to fully cross-examine the key witness against him.

Two years after a wildfire ripped through a thickly forested ravine and destroyed 254 homes near South Lake Tahoe, investigators have a "person of interest" but so far no arrests.Bill Dillard, an investigator with California's El Dorado County district attorney's office, said the case remains a high priority and he continues to follow up leads."The ...

A 19-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing death of his girlfriend's mother.

Two people reportedly suffered unknown injuries in the crash of a small plane in Cameron Park Thursday, officials said.

He wanted to be a math teacher and had a fascination with anything Japanese, from anime to swords and knives.