Keith Fessler's custom-made guitars were just part of the collection of instruments, books, fishing gear and other items that a close friend said represented Fessler's constant hunger to learn new things.

Neighbors said the woman was meticulous in maintaining their Elk Grove neighborhood, helping to trim weeds and clear leaves from her neighbors' lawns.
Gun sales in Sacramento County have grown more than in any other populous county in California since November, the state attorney general's office says.
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While men lead in drunken-driving busts, teen girls and women of all ages are rapidly gaining entry to this dangerous club. Between 2000 and 2008, DUI cases filed against women in Sacramento County rose 60 percent, according to an analysis for The Bee by the District Attorney's Office.
A recently hired investigator for the Placer County District Attorney's Office has been honored as "Officer of the Year" for a region covering 17 Northern California counties, according to the office.

  • Photos of some of the area's most notorious criminals.

  • Anne Chadwick Williams / Anne Chadwick Williams - The Sacramento Bee

    Former SLA members , from the left, Michael Bortin, Bill Harris, Sara Jane Olson, and Emily Montague appear at a hearing in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 11, 2002. Their request that their cases be heard together was granted. The four are in court on murder and robbery charges stemming from the 1975 Carmichael bank robbery during which bank customer, Myrna Opsahl, was killed. SLA Photo Gallery

  • AP Photo

    Joseph Ferguson, 20, who killed five people on Sept. 8, 2001 and himself the next day during a gun battle with police, is shown in this frame grab image released by Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Rancho Cordova on Sept. 10, 2001. Ferguson recorded a six-minute video tape of himself. Joseph Ferguson Photo Gallery

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