Sacramento News

In this file photo taken Saturday April 25, 2009, Attorney General Jerry Brown is seen speaking at the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, Calif.

The pilot of a Fresno-to-Seattle airliner has made an emergency landing at Sacramento International Airport because of trouble with the Bombardier CRJ-700's left engine.

As authorities at the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia prepare for the execution of DC sniper John Allen Muhammad, the husband of one of the victims plans to be there because he said he "wants to see him die." Nelson Rivera has started a new life in Sacramento.

Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, D-Lodi, gives a tray containing more than 2,000 postcards from constituents opposed to the construction of a peripheral canal, to Aaron McLear, press secretary for Gov.

Reporting from Sacramento - For the second time in a year, the California insurance commissioner has rejected an industry rating group's proposal that he recommend that insurers significantly raise rates paid by employers for workers' compensation insurance.

Angie Upton, with casino hostess Karen Kuehn, has earned top tier rewards at Jackson Rancheria.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said independent scientists will explore alternative ways to protect a native fish species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that could allow more water to California's farm belt.

After years of gridlock and failure, California lawmakers reached a historic agreement in Wednesday's pre-dawn hours to address one of California's most vexing problems: its vulnerable water supply and a dying Delta ecosystem.

The Placer County Sheriff's Department arrested eight suspects Tuesday night at a Loomis home along Auburn Folsom Road.

A nonprofit tolerance center in midtown Sacramento, championed by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, could get a vital economic boost from an unlikely source: a mammoth $10 billion water bond proposal.

Seven suspected gang members are facing charges in connection with an attempted kidnapping and assault last month at a Northern California casino.

A 19-year-old student has died after crashing his car into a tree early Sunday morning, according to officials.

Officers responded to the area of Amtrak and the Dennys at 3rd and J St. Officer had observed two male Blacks running fast N/B across the Amtrak property.

A Sacramento County trucker will be executed for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.

A trainee driver, who crashed a "gambler's special" bus into a ditch in a horrific accident that killed eleven people and injured dozens more, was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years and four months in state prison.

Ida grew into a hurricane for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before heading for the southern United States.

Originally published November 6, 2009 at 4:30 p.m., updated November 6, 2009 at 5:11 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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A 36-year-old woman was killed Saturday morning after being hit several times while trying to retrieve some boxes that had fallen from her car on Interstate 80 near Watt Avenue, according to officials.

A California Corrections Officer is now facing charges for allegedly smuggling weapons and drugs into the new Folsom prison.