Yolo County News

Sacramento State volunteers help make paralyzed woman's Davis house wheelchair accessible

By Anita Creamer - Updated: 9:40 am

A few years ago, disability rights advocate Sara Granda approached city officials in Davis with the idea of creating a grant program to help the town's disabled and elderly residents modify their houses to allow wheelchair accessibility.

Davis killings remain unsolved a month later

By Darrell Smith - Updated: 9:45 am

The killer of longtime attorney Oliver "Chip" Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, in their Davis condominium remains unknown a month after police discovered their bodies April 14.

Davis community stunned by killing of prominent attorney and wife

Driver guilty of second-degree murder in crash near Woodland

By Cathy Locke - Published: Tuesday, May 14 2013 - 11:11 pm

A Yolo County jury has found a Sacramento man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a passenger in the vehicle he was driving in January 2012.

Move to drop Gregorian calendar has foothold at UC Davis festival

By Stephen Magagnini - Updated: Monday, May 13 2013 - 6:57 am

Most of the many souls clad in rainbow tie dyes, gauzy wings and magic felt hats at the 44th Annual Whole Earth Festival celebrated Mother's Day on May 12, according to the Gregorian calendar. But about a dozen star travelers from across the universe camped out in a spherical geodesic dome where they observed "Red Spectral Moon Day."

Whole Earth Festival - Davis, California

Woodland considers district elections to comply with voting rights act

By Darrell Smith - Updated: Sunday, May 12 2013 - 2:55 pm

For much of Woodland's history, there have been two constants: Its City Council members have always been elected citywide, and they have nearly always been white.

Testimony begins in preliminary hearing in Davis beating case

By Darrell Smith - Updated: Sunday, May 12 2013 - 3:04 pm

Lawrence "Mikey" Partida was nervous Friday. He sat on a hard wooden bench in a Woodland courtroom, an aunt on either side of him offering quiet support. Stitches still closed a wound under his right eye from the brutal beating he absorbed in March.

Police arrest Davis man in alleged hate crime attack

Hooping it up at UC Davis

Updated: Monday, May 13 2013 - 6:51 am

The 2013 Whole Earth Festival kicked off Friday at UC Davis with dance, music, art and appreciation for the environment.

Whole Earth Festival - Davis, California

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