Sacramento City News

The car allowances aren't new. The San Juan Unified School District has been giving them for years to administrators who are expected to travel between school facilities, but you may not have known it.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has released names of deputies involved in the April 20 fatal officer-involved shooting in Arden Arcade. They are Sgt. Chad Lewis and deputies Greg Hein, Matt Owens and Donnie Black.

Saturday morning saw the official kickoff of the first Sacramento Music Festival, the new name adopted by the former Sacramento Jazz Jubilee.

A campaign mailer attacking Sacramento Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell exaggerates crime and unemployment figures in Pannell's south Sacramento district, a Bee analysis has found.

As soon as Elspeth "Beanie" Mar, Aniyah Rigmaiden and Anthony Roy Jr. stepped out of their chauffeured, black SUV to cheers from the cast of "A.N.T. Farm" and a slew of onlookers, the three youngsters from Sacramento's Caroline Wenzel Elementary School knew they were special.

One week after gunshots left his survival in doubt, Bodie the Sacramento police dog limped out of a veterinary hospital Friday evening, jumped into his handler's patrol car and headed home.

Elias Silhi, owner of Tony's Deli in downtown Sacramento, has unpleasant memories of "furlough Fridays," and gets nervous imagining what an encore would look like.

The Bee took home four first-place prizes and two second-place awards in the 2011 Better Newspapers Contest sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

When it comes to issuing citations for parking meter violations in Sacramento, do some people get special treatment? Yes.

Restaurant owner Sonny Mayugba was given an offer he almost could not refuse two weeks ago.

Tracy Mihas, district director of state and local government affairs at Kraft Foods, has been elected 2012-13 chairwoman of the Sacramento-based California League of Food Processors.

A light but steady stream of people climbed the concrete steps to the Raley Field ticket window over the course of an hour, a good number for the middle of a windy Wednesday afternoon.

An 81-year-old Sacramento man died Thursday afternoon in a collision on Watt Avenue near Pope Avenue in the Arden Arcade area.

Festering tensions between a grieving mother and a former day care operator facing criminal charges in the death of a baby boy prompted a Sacramento judge to issue stern warnings Wednesday to both sides in the bitter case.

Sacramento County is having a garage sale today – cash only accepted.

Manuel R. Ferrales, a political trailblazer who served eight years as the first Latino on the Sacramento City Council, died Saturday.

A former private school principal who has been charged with six felony counts of child molestation pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney got a shock a few weeks ago when he contacted a client, the Sacramento Kings, to discuss last-minute details for a banquet at his midtown eatery.

Students from 10 Sacramento middle and high schools will showcase short films they created at the fourth annual California Voices Youth Film Premiere at 6 p.m today at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

Homeowners in the Sacramento metropolitan area are underwater by $20.7 billion, according to a national study being released today by Seattle-based data company Zillow.

Sacramento ranks second in the nation on public access to parks and government investment on those parks, behind only San Francisco.

A man was taken to an area hospital Wednesday evening after he was shot by a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy during a foot pursuit in North Highlands.

A Sacramento man and a Yuba City woman were taken into custody after leading law enforcement officers on a chase through Sacramento County on Tuesday morning, at one point striking a patrol vehicle and pinning an officer inside.

With a sense of urgency, Sacramento and Solano County officials were tracking down the parents of 35 babies Tuesday, warning them that the infants had been exposed to tuberculosis while housed in two hospital neonatal intensive care units.

As a Sacramento resident, I'd be willing to consider raising my sales tax to pay for enhanced public safety on one condition.

The Twin Rivers Police Department has curtailed its emphasis on traffic enforcement, and more operational changes will follow if the school district police force moves forward with recommendations in a report released Tuesday.

Money orders, bank statements and credit card bills are among the documents Twin Rivers Unified School District officials turned over to authorities as evidence trustee Cortez Quinn allegedly accepted $55,000 in illegal loans from a school district employee.

The body of Sacramento firefighter William Porter was recovered Monday afternoon from Camp Far West Lake near Wheatland, Yuba County sheriff's officials said.

They came to see the man who nearly killed four of their own pay his price in prison time, but they also reserved a measure of outrage for a disgruntled rental property owner who filed a lawsuit against them for the way they did their job.

Citing a new poll that shows a strong majority of Sacramento residents support a local sales tax hike to fund core city services, the City Council on Tuesday directed staff to move forward with exploring a tax measure for the November ballot.

It took 27 days in jail to help persuade her to come to court, but a reluctant juvenile rape victim can now brag that her testimony helped a Sacramento jury convict a career criminal of sexual assault.

The last time Sheila Caceres appeared in Sacramento Superior Court, a former friend and client confronted her in the marble hallway – mother-to-mother.

The grief of a dead man's family evolved into bitterness at the justice system Monday when a judge sentenced their loved one's killer to a year in county jail.

Longtime Sacramento television personality Sharon Ito has announced she is stepping away from News10. Her last day will be Friday.

A Chico man who was fatally shot Friday after fleeing police in a stolen vehicle and critically injuring a police dog had several brushes with the law in Butte County.

Mayor Kevin Johnson was scheduled to be in Los Angeles on Monday night for a fundraiser hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that could have an impact on Sacramento's ongoing – although faded – arena effort.

Progress in getting West Coast refineries back online pushed Sacramento-area gasoline prices slightly lower over the past week.

A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that the city of Sacramento cannot levy administrative penalties on an Occupy Sacramento protester who allegedly violated the city's curfew laws last year at Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Sacramento.

Sacto MoFo 5, the local mobile food festival, has been announced for July 21 at Eighth and W streets, with a day of mobile food, live music, a beer garden and arts and crafts.

Job-seekers will find more than 30 employers and hiring help Thursday at a Sacramento career fair.

Southside Park neighbors, the city of Sacramento and the YMCA of Superior California announced an agreement Monday to reopen the park's pool this summer.

A 26-year-old man was killed in a crash early Saturday on Highway 50.

Mason Munson came to the Promenade of Mermaids in Old Sacramento dressed as a fisherman with a pole and a large (foil) hook.

Sacramento County elections officials say a first-class stamp is sufficient for vote-by-mail ballots in the June 5 primary election.

Police have identified a female suspect arrested Friday during a shooting in the Land Park neighborhood that left a male suspect dead and a police dog badly wounded.

A 22-year-old woman was killed Saturday when the Saturn automobile she was driving went off Power Inn Road and crashed into a utility pole at high speed, the California Highway Patrol reports.

The convicted rapist-murderer walked out of the courtroom Friday with his hands cuffed behind his back on his way to a lifetime in prison with no chance of parole, despite his insistence he had nothing to do with the sex killing of a 64-year-old woman.

Emotions in Sacramento's Land Park neighborhood ran at fever pitch Friday morning after gunfire left a suspected car thief dead and a police dog critically injured.

Diners will find that Billy Zoellin is serving up a touch of whimsy in the down-home dishes on the menu at his new Bacon and Butter restaurant, which opens at 8 a.m. Sunday inside Club 21 at 1119 21st St.

A woman suspected of voter registration fraud in Sacramento County has been the subject of complaints in other campaigns as well.