Sacramento News

Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without arranging contacts or a plan for care, a different hospital ditched Gabino Olvera on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

Authorities say a Temecula man who apparently shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself has died.

A Northern California man faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless driving causing the death of an Incline Village couple who was hit in a pedestrian crosswalk at Lake Tahoe in December 2011.

The Sacramento Police Department said a drunken driver caused a lot of damage on 65th Street and 8th Avenue early Monday morning.

The Dignity Memorial network and Sacramento Blue Star Moms have partnered to pay tribute to Vietnam veterans and to honor the traveling Vietnam Wall.

A 10-year-old girl was shot to death and her parents were hospitalized after gunmen walked up to the front door of a home in the North Highlands area of Sacramento County and started shooting, sheriff's officials said.

In the world of Latin pop, he's known for sold-out shows, million-selling albums and the single name of Juanes.

A group of 225 bicycle riders and crew raised a record $330,000 for AIDS research and related organizations during a four-day trip through Northern California.

Gov. Jerry Brown had hardly finished presenting his annual budget revision last week before state Sen.

Josiah Humphreys died two months ago and no one's been caught. He took his last breath at 18th and P Streets, and tonight his father hopes that by the Guardian Angels passing out flyers, someone will come forward with new information.

A 10-year-old girl was shot to death and a man and a woman also were wounded inside the North Highlands house Saturday night, the Sacramento Sheriff's Department reports today.

By the time he left foster care, Willis Mucelroy estimates, he had lived in 30 foster homes across the Central Valley.

Jerry Brown – who made "lower your expectations" a catchphrase of his first governorship – is back in that mode during his second stint, especially on spending.

A few weeks ago, I was covering baseball in San Francisco when a writer from another state accosted me with an emphatic declaration: "You've lost the Sacramento Kings," he boomed.

Three weeks before he allegedly murdered his 9-year-old son with a hatchet, Phillip Raymond Hernandez was the subject of a complaint to Sacramento County Child Protective Services alleging that he neglected his two boys.

Can you tell me the name of this plant? The Italian lady who gave it to me told me that "in the old country," they would tie it to the rafters in the house to keep mice from running there.

An anti-gay rights group has purchased hourly radio spots to urge parents to keep their children home from school on Harvey Milk Day, which honors the gay rights pioneer.

Dr. Norm Klein knows all too well. His Rancho Cordova garden holds one of the Sacramento area's largest private collections of cactuses and succulents.

The third-grader, along with 300 other students from Williamson Elementary School in Rancho Cordova, huddled inside the cafeteria for one reason - to watch a play that Angela had written.

A dead man's reputation took a major tumble in court Friday in one of Sacramento's more high-profile homicides in recent years.