Yolo County News

Even with affordable health care a bit of an oxymoron these days, no one in Yolo County seems to mind that the proverbial wrecking ball is poised over the Peterson Clinic, a valued community health clinic in Woodland.

Albert S. Walton, a longtime real estate broker and leader in West Sacramento business and civic groups, died May 11 after a stroke, his family said. He was 94.

With a judge's promise and ruling, it appears the UC Davis "sweethearts" murder trial will begin sooner rather than later and last shorter instead of longer.

Arguing that the public has a right to know the names of the police officers involved in the November pepper-spray incident at UC Davis, The Bee and the Los Angeles Times sued Wednesday to force disclosure of their identities.

Davis has selected veteran firefighter Scott Kenley as its interim fire chief.

ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's a fatal neurodegenerative disease that can strike anyone, usually between the age of 40 and 70.

Davis voters will soon head to the polls in a city searching to balance economic development with its slow-growth ethos as it deals with tough budget issues.

Two more top-tier supporters of Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Clint Parish have abandoned his campaign for judge following this week's release of a deceptive mailer the prosecutor authorized against Superior Court Judge Dan Maguire.

Retail heavyweight Target Corp. has shelled out $275,000 to extract itself from a wrongful termination claim by a longtime employee at its Woodland store.

UC Davis students and officials on Friday welcomed their new Student Community Center and celebrated a new mural painted on the building by one of the campus' emeritus faculty.

Those weren't just any kites flying Thursday at a fundraiser at a UC Davis intramural field – they were built of bamboo and paper by Afghan youngsters from the streets of Kabul.

Yolo Superior Court judicial candidate and deputy district attorney Clint Parish on Thursday identified the political consultant who created the attack mailer targeting a rival candidate, Superior Court Judge Dan Maguire. Parish also expressed regret for sending out the mail piece.

In the six years since its Bay Area inception, dozens of Maker Faires have been held across the country, Europe and Asia.

Yolo Superior Court candidate Clint Parish said Wednesday he did not verify claims in an attack mailer that alleged campaign rival Judge Dan Maguire was involved in corporate fraud and bribery while working at a Colorado law firm in the mid-1990s.

Though she took "full responsibility" months ago, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi detailed for lawmakers Tuesday specific mistakes she made in a campus pepper-spraying incident that sparked national headlines and outrage.

Yolo County prosecutor Clint Parish lost the endorsement of Sheriff Ed Prieto and received a stinging rebuke from Yolo County's presiding judge after a Parish campaign mailer sought to tie the judge he's running against June 5 to corporate bribes and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's controversial commutation of the prison sentence of a political ally's son.

At 66 and desperately ill with the recurrence of an aggressive form of non- Hodgkins lymphoma, Davis artist Gay Powers needed to move closer to the Sutter Cancer Center in Sacramento to prepare for the stem-cell transplant that doctors say is her best hope.

The hardball campaign mailers attacking Davis City Councilwoman Sue Greenwald landed in Davis mailboxes this week just as county vote-by-mail ballots began arriving at voters' homes.

Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto and the Board of Supervisors will dedicate a street in memory of slain deputy Jose Antonio "Tony" Diaz.

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The old boxing saw "Styles make fights" tells a lot about the contest for Yolo Superior Court judge between incumbent Judge Dan Maguire and challenger Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Clint Parish.

In continuing fallout from the Occupy campus protests at UC Davis, the university has filed a complaint against U.S. Bank, alleging breach of contract.

Washington Unified School District will host two community meetings to discuss and prioritize school facilities projects.

A decade after agreeing to pick up employees' share of pension contributions to CalPERS, Yolo County is working to reverse that decision.

Concerns that area rivers will flow high in winter and that extreme weather events will result in floods were on the minds of 50 people who gathered Saturday morning at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area levee as part of a worldwide demonstration.

UC Davis' Academic Senate voted to censure university Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi for the events surrounding the pepper-spraying of students by campus police during tuition protests last November.

UC Davis leaders have laid out a list of proposed reforms in the wake of last November's pepper-spraying of students by campus police.

A West Sacramento man faces life behind bars for repeatedly sexually abusing a then-7-year-old girl and videotaping the acts.

A new small-business accelerator is taking root in Davis with the goal of growing local firms and keeping them in the city.

For anyone who has accidentally stepped on an insect and faced the vexing question, "Should I kill it and put it out of its misery?" there is one answer better than the others.

The mothers of Michael Dimitras' victims are alerting prosecutors statewide to an obscure – but simple – measure available to them to keep drunken drivers and others off the roads for at least some time after they serve their sentences.

The "Bankers' Dozen" will return to a Yolo County courtroom May 10 to face charges related to demonstrations at a U.S. Bank branch on the UC Davis campus in January and February that ultimately led to the branch's closing.

A new affordable apartment complex in Woodland aims to provide "green" living for farmworkers.

Tyrell Penney looked cool enough Friday. He sat back in the witness chair in his gray-and-green Oregon Ducks sweat shirt. He cupped the microphone in two hands and told what he knew about a 2010 shooting on Nedra Court that killed a 15-year-old girl.

GUINDA – From across Northern California, they came for links, ribs, jazz, gospel and a rare taste of Yolo County's secret African American past.