By Charles Piller -
Updated: Tuesday, April 2 2013 - 7:41 am
The California Department of Transportation said Monday that it was reviewing whether the large bolts that broke last month on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had failed quality-control tests by the agency's materials lab.
By Marjie Lundstrom -
Updated: Sunday, March 17 2013 - 11:41 am
For nearly 17 years, Silvia Cata cared for elderly clients in her home on a dead-end street in Sacramento's Gardenland neighborhood, a residential enclave flanked by tire shops, lube and oil joints and a check-cashing store on the corner.
By Jim Sanders -
Updated: Wednesday, March 13 2013 - 6:50 pm
Assemblyman Richard Pan is required to live in the district he represents, but he apparently is spending little time in the residence he purchased to comply with the law, a Bee investigation shows.
By Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese -
Updated: Friday, March 29 2013 - 4:09 pm
They stood in the crisp morning air clutching Red Bulls and bearing arms: Bushmaster rifles poking from backpacks, HK pistols nestled in cases, Colt semi-automatics propped on shoulders.
By Sam Stanton -
Updated: Sunday, February 17 2013 - 11:00 pm
Fraser West and his family are engaged in a legal battle with a multibillion-dollar company over plans to build a 278-acre rock quarry 50 feet behind his property line and construct an asphalt plant on 113 acres down the road from his ranch.
By Marjie Lundstrom -
Updated: Tuesday, February 12 2013 - 6:34 pm
The consent form allowing UC Davis doctors to open Terri Bradley's skull and infect her with bowel bacteria was hand-delivered on a single page with a 300-word warning.
By Marjie Lundstrom -
Updated: Monday, February 11 2013 - 4:59 pm
In the antiseptic language of government documents, she was identified only as Patient No. 2, a dying woman who agreed to undergo an experimental procedure at the UC Davis Medical Center.
By Charles Piller -
Updated: Sunday, March 3 2013 - 11:27 pm
An analysis from a team of California Department of Transportation experts, released Thursday after more than a year of preparation, confirmed data problems involving radiation-based tests of reinforced concrete foundations for nine bridges or other freeway structures, including the Benicia-Martinez Bridge.
Tom Knudson, Environment & Sierra Nevada
Marjie Lundstrom, Northern California & General Assignment
Charles Piller, Financial Audits & Prisons
Phillip Reese, Computer-Assisted Reporting & Databases
