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Check those mailboxes: Jury duty returns to Yolo courts
Jury duty — it’s coming back. Yolo Superior Court officials plan to resume jury trials on Monday, July 6, more than three months after the coronavirus pandemic ground those proceedings — which...
View ArticleJuvenile robbery suspect leads police on two-county pursuit
A Woodland juvenile suspected of robbery allegedly led police on a high-speed pursuit, the Thursday afternoon incident resulting in the arrests of both the driver and passenger, police said. In a...
View ArticleMan suspected of burglarizing Davis Rite Aid store
Davis police say a man helped himself to appliances and other merchandise from a local Rite Aid store, resulting in his arrest and a trip to the Yolo County Jail. Steven Alan Stickney Jr., 41, of Rio...
View Article‘Professional buffoonery’: Renowned medical examiner Omalu slams Floyd...
Renowned forensic pathologist and clinical professor at the UC Davis Medical Center Dr. Bennet Omalu commented Saturday on a preliminary autopsy report on the death of George Floyd. The report, which...
View ArticleMan injured in Woodland shooting
Woodland police continue to investigate a shooting that injured a man last week. Sgt. Dallas Hyde said officers responded at about 2:35 a.m. Friday to the 1700 block of Sixth Street, where witnesses...
View ArticlePolice chief explains officers’ use of riot gear during Sunday protest
In response to inquiries from local media, Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel provided an explanation for the decision to equip officers with helmets, shields and batons during Sunday’s march through the...
View ArticlePrison time imposed for freeway crash that killed Woodland boy, 5
WOODLAND — A Sacramento man received prison time Tuesday for his role in a freeway collision that killed a 5-year-old Woodland boy, the sentencing hearing bringing the child’s family and the defendant...
View ArticleMotorcyclist dies in rural Yolo County crash
A Woodland man died Wednesday evening in a solo motorcycle collision that California Highway Patrol investigators say may have been alcohol-related. The cyclist, identified by Yolo County coroner’s...
View Article‘High-security’ mailboxes coming to South Davis neighborhoods
Several South Davis neighborhoods are poised to receive new centralized mailboxes, weeks after residents of the Willowcreek and Woodbridge areas reported having theirs breached and raided of mail and...
View ArticleDrake Drive fire damages fence, shed
Davis firefighters battled a first-alarm fire that damaged a residential fence and shed Thursday. Battalion Chief Roland Pussich said the blaze started shortly before noon in the back yard of a home in...
View ArticleDavis PD reverses course, strikes neck holds from use-of-force policy
Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel announced an amendment to his department’s use-of-force policy, banning neck holds as a permitted restraint technique in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Quail Fire near Winters grows to 1,400 acres
UPDATE: The Quail Fire southwest of Winters grew from 500 to 1,400 acres during the night Sunday, with crews achieving 10 percent containment, according to the California Department of Forestry and...
View ArticleNugget discrimination lawsuit to go to trial
Supervisors allegedly taunted Latino employees with Trump comments A federal judge ruled last week that a discrimination lawsuit filed by two Nugget Markets employees can proceed to trial. The workers...
View ArticleDriver killed, passenger injured in Mace Boulevard crash
The Mace Boulevard overpass remains shut down this morning while the Davis Police Department investigates a fatal collision that occurred around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Sgt. John Evans said that’s about the...
View ArticleHome invasion reported outside Woodland
The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported home invasion west of Woodland during which the suspect claimed to be playing a “prank.” According to Lt. Matt Davis, a woman awoke at about...
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Gandhi statue vandalized in Central Park
Someone vandalized the statue of Mohandas Gandhi at Central Park earlier this week, resurrecting for some the controversy that surrounded the figure when Davis city leaders approved its installation...
View ArticleMr. Pickle’s closes after owner’s racist rant
The corporate office of Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shops shut down the Davis store late Tuesday, after local franchise owner Mickey Mann sent an email to his employees, berating them for bringing Black...
View ArticleJudicial Council ends statewide zero-bail schedule, but Yolo may keep it
California’s Judicial Council voted Wednesday to end the statewide emergency bail schedule created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, though local court officials appear poised to keep similar...
View ArticleUCD warns of ‘job offer’ email scam
Multiple UC Davis students have reported being on the receiving end of an email scam involving “professors” offering job opportunities. “The alleged professor offers a job to the student that requires...
View ArticleEmail rant over BLM forces closure of Mr. Pickle’s
By Lauren Keene and Wendy Weitzel The corporate office of Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shops shut down the Davis store as of Wednesday, after local franchise owner Mickey Mann sent an email to his employees,...
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