Recruiting at churches, schools, job fairs and community events, the Sacramento branch has nearly tripled from 323 adult members to 845 over the past 14 months, with another 45 youth members, said president Betty Williams.

A Sacramento Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced two men to life in prison without the chance of parole after they were earlier convicted of beating to death a 90-year-old woman.

COLUSA – A trainee driver, who crashed a "gamblers' special" bus into a ditch in a horrific accident that killed 11 people and injured dozens more, was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years and four months in state prison.

One at a time, the three women told the court how their one-time divorce lawyer violated their trust, made them suspicious of professionals like himself, and how he took advantage of their acute psychic vulnerability.

Maggie Franklin was the only African American employee at the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency during her six years as its first and last public information officer.

At 5:36 p.m. Friday, a Woodland woman dialed 911 and said her husband had seen one man dragging another by the feet into a neighboring house, leaving a swath of blood behind.

A federal judge on Monday halted the state of California's plan to cut or reduce caregiver services for 130,000 disabled and low-income seniors starting Nov. 1.

The lawyer for Entercom Communication Corp. and its Sacramento subsidiary argued forcefully Wednesday that his clients weren't responsible for Jennifer Lea Strange's death. But he offered jurors a fallback number on damages just in case they disagree with him.

The evidence against the defendants was "overwhelming," the plaintiffs' lawyer told the Sacramento Superior Court jury Tuesday. Then he came up with numbers to compensate survivors of the woman who died in a radio station's water drinking contest.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill clamping down on placement agents, the marketing middlemen at the heart of a multistate probe into corruption of public pension funds.

Motorists found guilty of a first offense here and in three other California counties will be required to install and use breathalyzers in their cars for five months, under a law signed this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The document is so obscure that law professors and legal professionals say they have rarely encountered it.

Tyrone Adam Palmer did it, his lawyer conceded -- he chased down a car full of teenage girls and prompted the crash that killed one of them, left another in a persistent vegetative state and broke both legs of a third.

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