A: As reported in The Bee, 18-year-old Charles White was stabbed after an argument at a large 1998 Halloween party at a Citrus Heights home. White, a Mesa Verde High School graduate, was taken to a Roseville hospital, where he later died.

Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies arrested Franklin Brittenum, 18, as a suspect in the attack.

According to Sacramento Superior Court records, Brittenum was sentenced May 18, 1999 to 14 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.

A: A Sacramento Police Department spokesman identified the suspect as Xavier Williams, now 20. Williams was convicted as an adult of first-degree murder. He was sentenced on Feb. 15 to 25 years to life in state prison, court records show.

Here's what The Bee reported on Jan. 1, 2006

A teenager wanted on suspicion of homicide in the Dec. 22 death of Daniel Frank Valdez, 17, turned himself in Sunday afternoon, a police spokesman said.

He was arrested after acquaintances arranged the surrender at a Sacramento church about 12:45 p.m., the spokesman said.

Valdez was shot during an argument on McLaren Avenue in South Sacramento, the spokesman said, and later died in UC Davis Medical Center.

A: As reported in The Bee, Jerimi Millican, 18, who was stabbed 26 times, was found Aug. 5, 2004, on the floor of a Gardenland Park bathroom on Bowman Avenue.

Carlos Thomas Campaz, 23, John Douglas White, 23, and Robert M. Montoya, 20, were each charged with murder carrying special circumstances of lying in wait.

According to Sacramento Superior Court records, on Aug. 30, 2007, Campaz was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison and Montoya that day was sentenced to 15 years to life. White was sentenced to 15 years to life March 3, 2008.

A: The two suspects - Mark Edwards, 45, and David Edwards, 19 - face trials in early December in Sacramento Superior Court on a multitude of felony charges, including attempted murder, according to court records.

Here's what The Bee reported about the case that occurred on the morning of July 29, 2007:

A father and son suspected of stealing two quarter-midget race cars led police on a dramatic chase, exchanging gunfire as they ran into the brush and became wanted fugitives in rugged terrain north of Rancho Murieta, investigators said.

The pursuit -- involving dozens of officers, K-9s, a helicopter, SWAT teams and telephone warnings to residents - ended with Sacramento County sheriff's deputies arresting two suspects before noon, without serious injuries.

A: As reported in The Bee on Aug. 19, 2006, an affidavit for an arrest warrant written by a sheriff's homicide detective explains the events that allegedly led up to the shooting and arrest of Denisho Collins of Sacramento:

On the night of June 27, 2005, a gang member called other men to participate in a revenge shooting against Los Angeles gangsters who were involved in a shooting two to three years earlier.

In two Chevrolet Caprices, eight men drove to Della Circle, near Power Inn and Florin roads in south Sacramento.

Perkins, Collins and the others put on red masks and bandannas and fired about 30 shots at a house; rivals did not return fire, the affidavit says.

During the gunfire, Perkins was shot, apparently by a fellow gang member. Perkins, losing consciousness, was put in one of the cars and driven to the home of a passenger's friend and left on the sidewalk in front of the Renton Way home.

The other men fled in the other car and on foot. One nearby resident saw a man in the backyard and told detectives he'd thrown a gun on the roof. The resident later picked Collins out of a photo lineup, the affidavit says. Forensics experts matched a bullet from the gun to the bullet that entered Perkins' back and lodged in his hip.

On Aug. 18, 2006 Collins was charged with homicide, use of a semiautomatic weapon in the commission of a crime and committing a crime on behalf of a street gang.

According to Sacramento Superior Court records, Collins' trial is scheduled to begin Dec. 18.

A: Kier Anderson, 41, is scheduled to stand trial for first-degree murder on Dec. 18. He is accused of killing his wife, Jennifer Lynn Anderson, in February 2006.

According to earlier reports in The Bee, the 28-mother of two young girls was found hanged in her Tahoe Park garage and an autopsy later revealed she had a large dose of an antidepressant drug in her blood.

However, investigators said she was killed elsewhere. An autopsy revealed Jennifer Anderson died of "asphyxia due to neck compression. Police also had been called to the Anderson' house the night before because of an argument the pair had.

A: On Sept. 28, 2007, Mark Anthony Antonucci was found guilty of five felonies, ranging from robbery to assault, according to court records. Later that year, he was sentenced to 22 years and 8 months in state prison. A kidnapping charge was dismissed.

According to earlier reports in The Bee, Sacramento police arrested Antonucci May 8, 2006, at a city motel. His ex-girlfriend was found unharmed.

The previous day, his ex-girlfriend was driving three friends when Antonucci flagged them down in the 6300 block of Mack Road. Antonucci and an unidentified man ordered everyone out of the car at gunpoint, police said.

The gunmen then beat up and robbed two of the woman's companions, a 28-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. Then the suspects took off in a car, taking the woman with them, police said.

A: A couple, known by Sacramento Police Department detectives as "Bonnie and Clyde," were sentenced to prison on July 20, 2006, in Sacramento Superior Court for the slaying of a Hempstead following an argument over a piece of bread.

Anousone Phongviseth, 22, who pleaded guilty to murder, was given a 50 years-to-life term and his girlfriend, Feuy Saelee, 20, was sentenced to seven years for her guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Hempstead.

Hempstead was shot and killed in what investigators said was an argument over bread at a Togo's restaurant in North Sacramento.

Saelee, who was a restaurant employee, had the argument with Hempstead and later complained to Phongviseth, her boyfriend.

Later that afternoon of July 1,2005, Hempstead was shot while walking down Silver Eagle Road near Northgate Boulevard.

A: Ronny Josue Moran, 21, pleaded no contest to a first-degree murder charge on Oct. 17. He was sentenced to 12 years in state prison on Nov. 14.

On Sept. 24, 2006, Sacramento County Sheriff's Department investigators later determined, that Walton, 16, and Moran were part of a group that had met behind Pioneer Elementary School, north of Madison Avenue to play basketball and to party. Then a fight broke out.

Walton's body was found around 4 a.m. on the court. He had been stabbed in the chest.

A: As reported by Kim Minugh on Sept. 1 in The Bee:

August marked the 10th anniversary of Henry Moreno's mysterious disappearance, the 10th summer his heartbroken family has fought to keep the case alive.

They will commemorate the milestone with a red oak tree and concrete bench dedicated to Henry in East Portal Park. They will hold one last candlelight vigil, and then they will try to move on.

"Henry wouldn't want us to be angry. He wouldn't want us to be sad every year," said Carlos Moreno, one of Henry's 11 siblings.

In August 1998, Henry Moreno, 46, was on the brink of opening his dream restaurant on the Sacramento River. He was seen at Home Depot on Aug. 6, and at a local cafe he frequented. Then he vanished.

His disappearance is a mystery in every sense of the word. There have been no bank account or credit card changes, no cell phone activity. His car, a 1997 white Nissan Pathfinder with a California license plate of 3VLP084, has never been found.

Ten years later, there is "absolutely nothing" new in the case, said Sacramento police Detective Pat Keller.

A: A Sacramento man whom authorities dubbed the "Straw Hat Bandit" was sentenced Monday to three years and 10 months in federal prison for a series of bank robberies.

U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton also sentenced Michael Edward Osgood, 47, to three years of supervised release for his involvement in six bank robberies in Sacramento County and one in San Joaquin County. He has paid full restitution for the robberies, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott.

Authorities gave Osgood, a former groundskeeper for California Family Fitness and Roseville High School, the nickname because he wore large brim straw hats during his robberies.

He was arrested June 9 after he robbed the U.S. Bank at 3320 Arden Way in Sacramento, which he admitted to. He also pleaded guilty to robbing the Sterlent Credit Union at 2648 Watt Ave. in Sacramento on May 12 and the U.S. Bank at 2808 County Club Blvd. in Stockton on June 4, the release said.

As part of the plea agreement, Osgood admitted to committing four other bank robberies: Tri-Counties Bank at 4650 Natomas Blvd. in Sacramento on April 30; Wells Fargo Bank at 8870 Madison Ave. in Fair Oaks on May 16; Citibank at 436 Howe Ave. in Sacramento on May 21; and U.S. Bank at 5021 Laguna Blvd. in Elk Grove on May 24, the release said.

The case was part of an investigation by the Sacramento Violent Crimes Task Force, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Roseville Police Department and the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.

A: As reported in The Bee, Beverly Benford, a former University of California, Davis, employee pleaded guilty June 10 in federal court to theft of government property with a value in excess of $1,000.

Benford of Sacramento admitted a six-year spree of spending federal funds on hundreds of items for herself, including iPods, camcorders, digital cameras, home security systems, televisions and stereos.

Benford was employed by UC Davis from 1991 to 2006 at the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program, which is administered through the university and underwritten with federal grants.

According to Bee reporter Denny Walsh, her sentencing by U. S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. Jan. 6 in Courtroom 4 on the 15th floor of the United States Courthouse, Fifth and I streets, Sacramento.