Yolo County News

Guldawood Khan, left, and Mohammad Tariq stand in front of the Madinah Islamic Center in West Sacramento.

Islamic Center gets approval from W. Sacramento planning commission

Despite a campaign against it, a West Sacramento house of Islamic worship received city approval to remain open. Along with opposition, plenty of community support was voiced during a Planning Commission hearing.

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Female in headlock among video images from UC Davis Picnic Day melee with police

Testimony continued in a Woodland courtroom Friday in the preliminary hearing for the four young men and woman dubbed the “Picnic Day Five.”

During the Woodland Tomato Festival, everything goes tomatoes including this Main Street greeter at the 2014 event.

Appetizers

Love tomatoes? Saturday is your kind of day

Woodland celebrates its 10th annual Tomato Festival with tomato tasting, salsa competition, chef cook-off and family fun.

This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles.

Crime - Sacto 911

Feds illegally sent New York teens to Yolo County to be deported, ACLU claims

A lawsuit filed Friday, Aug. 11, by the ACLU claims immigration officials, or ICE, illegally held teens from New York in Yolo County juvenile hall in Woodland.

Crime - Sacto 911

Hearing begins for ‘Picnic Day Five’ accused of brawling with Davis cops

The April 22 exchange between plainclothes officers who piled out of an unmarked minivan into a crowd of Picnic Day revelers near the UC Davis campus turned into a melee that led to the arrests and injuries to two of the officers.

Crime - Sacto 911

One killed, one injured in collision at rural Yolo County intersection

A 29-year-old man has died of injuries suffered Wednesday afternoon in a collision at a rural Yolo County intersection.

Crime - Sacto 911

Man accused of striking father arrested after standoff with Woodland police

A man accused of striking his 73-year-old father, brandishing a screwdriver at police, then barricading himself in a Woodland apartment was taken into custody.

Health & Medicine

Mosquito with possibly debilitating virus found in Yuba County

A mosquito carrying the St. Louis encephalitis virus has been found in the town of Plumas Lake, 30 miles north of Sacramento. The virus is spread through bites from infected mosquitoes and symptoms include fever, headache, nausea and vomiting.

It’s been 35 years, but Caffé Italia, a staple in Davis, will close its doors at the end of August. The owners are looking for a new site and could shift to Woodland or Winters if Davis plans don’t work out.

Restaurant News & Reviews

Caffé Italia has dished out classic lasagna for decades. It’s about to lose its home.

Caffé Italia, a family-owned restaurant that has been around for 35 years, will close to make room for a new hotel complex in Davis.

Business & Real Estate

W. Sac firm recalls 21,000 lbs. of poultry products

Bateman Community Living in West Sacramento has recalled 21,000 lbs. of poultry products shipped to institutional locations for undeclared soy allergens.

Displayed is a LED-illuminated wireless router in Philadelphia, Sunday, July 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Crime - Sacto 911

He hacked his neighbor’s Wi-Fi to download child porn. Now he’s headed to prison.

Alexander Nathan Norris, 28, hacked into his neighbor’s Wi-Fi account to download child porn. He was sentenced in Sacramento on Wednesday to six years in prison.

FBI agents searching for someone downloading internet child porn raided a Davis apartment where three college students lived. Then they discovered a neighbor had been using the students’ wifi account.

Crime - Sacto 911

He wanted to download child porn, so he hacked his neighbor’s wifi

Alexander Norris faces sentencing Wednesday for downloading child pornography by hacking into his neighbors’ wifi account at a Davis apartment complex.

Education

UC Davis’ Katehi will teach one course per quarter, conduct research in $318,000 position

Linda P.B. Katehi will teach one class per quarter and conduct research to earn $318,000 over nine months, a rate equivalent to her chancellor-level salary.

Religion

Davis imam apologizes for sermon that was condemned as anti-Semitic

The imam of the Islamic Center of Davis apologized for a sermon he delivered last week, which included a prayer asking for the destruction and annihilation of those responsible for closing the Al-Aqsa mosque. His remarks were condemned by critics as anti-Semitic.

Education

UC Davis’ Linda Katehi returns to teaching, but she’ll be paid like a chancellor

Linda Katehi will earn $318,000 over nine months, plus benefits, to teach classes in electrical and computer engineering and women’s studies.

Religion

Reconsidering words from divisive sermon, Davis imam offers eloquent apology

Imam Ammar Shahin, who last week gave a controversial sermon in Davis that inflamed religious dialogue well beyond that town, offered an in-depth apology on Friday, July 28, 2017, promising to work hard to help improved interfaith understanding and to become a better community leader.

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