Sacramento City News

The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has released the name of the man who died along with four dogs in a house fire Monday in Fair Oaks.

When Elizabeth McCleary decided to open an Italian-style gelateria in midtown Sacramento, she knew it wouldn't be as simple as scooping up creamy confections all day long.

Sacramento, nearly beaten five months ago, is keeping its Kings after all.

A Sacramento man has been arrested, accused of fatally injuring his 3-week-old daughter.

Moments before boarding a plane for today's NBA meeting in Dallas that could decide the fate of the Sacramento Kings, Mayor Kevin Johnson said "we're holding our breath as a city." Sacramento has done all it can, he said, to keep the city's major league sports franchise.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health's imminent departure from the outpatient lab business will result in 148 layoffs in the Sacramento area next month.

Once again, California mental health officials are pushing to release into Sacramento a psychotic man who slashed and bludgeoned his mother to death in South Land Park nine years ago.

When Christina Covey heard the screech of tires about 1 p.m. Saturday, she looked out of her 47th Avenue home and saw a little girl holding onto the trunk of a car.

A house fire in Fair Oaks apparently claimed the life of an older man Monday afternoon, officials said.

The most powerful team owners in the NBA met again Monday to discuss the fate of the Kings, and apparently left unchanged their earlier recommendation to keep the team in Sacramento.

Nearly three dozen officials from the city of Sacramento, local food and agricultural companies, and clean technology firms will head to Chongqing, China, this week to take part in a trade and commerce show held annually in the massive business hub.

Despite repeatedly dismissing overtures from a Sacramento group eager to buy the Kings, the team's owners have not closed the door on that possibility and were receiving updates from the NBA on the Sacramento group's efforts as recently as this weekend, a source said Sunday.

The family of 15-year-old Daria Clarke -- the Rio Americano High School freshman known as "Dasha" who was last seen near the school about 10 a.m. Thursday -- thinks she may have been lured away by someone she met online, her mother, Margie Clarke, said Sunday.

Phil Angelides, former California state treasurer and a veteran developer, thinks he has the key to the 48 acres along the Capital City Freeway: single-family homes.

About 13,500 people – clad in white and pink T-shirts – descended on Cal Expo on Saturday for the 17th annual Komen Race for the Cure.

In contrast to contentious debates over issues such as guns, immigration and the federal budget, a bill to address critical water infrastructure – including flood protection for Sacramento – looked like it might have an easier time getting through a divided U.S. Senate.

The fight for the Kings took another wild turn Saturday, with the Maloofs threatening not to sell the team to Sacramento's investor group if the NBA blocks the family's deal with bidders from Seattle.

A remnant of a federal investigation into a Philadelphia motorcycle gang with a national reach has washed up at the Sacramento County courthouse.

In a dramatic, late-hour move, the group trying to buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle announced Friday it is increasing its bid for the franchise a second time - just days before the NBA is scheduled to vote on the team's future.

With the rate of Alzheimer's disease projected to rise as baby boomers age, more people will face the problem of caring for loved ones with dementia.

Explaining why the NBA's relocation committee recommended against moving the Kings to Seattle, one of the league's most influential owners says Sacramento did everything necessary to keep the team.

A mystery donor is stepping forward to help rebuild the fire-ravaged McKinley Park playground.

Tens of thousands of Sacramento drivers, who were sent scattering five years ago when Caltrans shut Interstate 5 for repair, will soon face a freeway fix that could be even more intrusive.

City Hall took a step this week toward placing tighter regulations on gun sales in Sacramento.

Bodie, the Sacramento police dog shot and critically injured by a suspected car thief nearly a year ago, is retiring from patrol duties to focus on community relations.

A sculpture of abolitionist Sojourner Truth had been a prominent fixture in the area known as the Convention Center Sculpture Garden on the short street linking L and J streets at the east end of the K Street Mall. Now it is in a warehouse until officials figure out how best to restore it.

With an NBA vote on the future of the Sacramento Kings just a week away, a source says the league is encouraging a Sacramento business group to put 100 percent of its $341 million team purchase offer into an escrow account in hopes of persuading the Maloof family, which owns the team, to sign a deal with the local group.

On paper, the city of Sacramento's budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 looks a lot rosier than in recent years. The $8.9 million deficit is the smallest budget gap the city has faced in the current economic downturn and, for the first time since 2008, no layoffs are being proposed.

Sacramento County supervisors agreed Tuesday to provide $100,000 a year toward an effort that promises to reduce deaths among black children by between 10 percent and 20 percent within five years.

Plans to repair the American River levee under Watt Avenue in Sacramento could result in lane closures, and the public is invited to a meeting on the project May 23.

Sacramento police would like to talk to anyone who witnessed an accident Tuesday afternoon in which a vehicle struck a pedestrian.

Twin Rivers Unified has selected Steve Martinez, an assistant superintendent at the Fresno Unified School District, as its next superintendent.

Sacramento Channel 40 (KTXL), a Fox affiliate, has added Sabrina Rodriguez as an anchor to the station's 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekday news program.

Mayor Kevin Johnson is so confident that the Kings are staying put, he's got some advice for the guys trying to buy the team and move it to Seattle: Back off.

There is a key building that needs to be utilized in Sacramento so surrounding neighborhoods can be lifted beyond blight.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is poised to raise residential and commercial electricity rates by 2.5 percent in both 2014 and 2015.

A Sacramento judge declared a mistrial in a murder case Monday when a Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict in a fatal gang shooting outside a south-area nightclub two years ago.

In a move that surely strengthens their bid for the Kings, the investors trying to keep the team in Sacramento told the NBA they'd stop taking revenue-sharing dollars earmarked for the league's struggling franchises.

Sacramento County supervisors will consider a request today to spend $100,000 a year in an effort to reduce deaths among African American youths.

The Sacramento County coroner's office has identified a woman who died in a motorcycle "lane-splitting" accident as Snezhana Pavlova, 20, of Sacramento.

Community members and law enforcement leaders from across the state will gather at the California Peace Officers Memorial Monument during two events to honor officers lost in the line of duty.

Trying to nail down a deal with the Maloof family, the investors bidding to keep the Kings in Sacramento deposited 50 percent of the offering price in an escrow account Friday, a source close to the group said.

On the sidewalk in front of the lot at 12th and C streets where the Safe Ground Stake Down homeless fair is taking place, program participants from WIND Youth Services for formerly homeless teens had chalked a series of inspirational messages: "Hugs. Strength. Unity. Fight for the People."

A committee of NBA owners declared that the Kings should stay in Sacramento. The man who wants to move the team to Seattle has vowed to keep pressing his case.

For nearly four days, Shajia Ayobi's jury struggled with the meaning of "imminence" and whether it applied to the danger she said she feared from her husband.

The weekly farmers market at Cesar Chavez Plaza at 10th and J streets opened for business Wednesday.

The Safe Ground Stake Down homeless fair is the latest development in the four-year evolution of Sacramento's Safe Ground movement, whose goal is to provide safe temporary shelter for Sacramento's estimated 1,000 homeless people.

For the first time since 1994, it looks like there will be a seriously competitive race for district attorney in Sacramento County next year.

A member of the Skinhead criminal street gang today was convicted by a Sacramento County jury of manufacturing and transporting methamphetamine, and possessing methamphetamine for sale.

After an eight-year wait, one of Sacramento County's most crime-ridden neighborhoods broke ground Tuesday on a community center that will assist residents with health, employment and nutritional needs.