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Containment of rugged Wragg fire grows
Staff, wire reports Firefighters gained additional control last night over the rugged Wragg fire in Napa, Solano and Yolo counties, which has scorched an estimated 6,900 acres of drought-parched...
View ArticleFFA pig beaten on Davis High campus
Davis police are investigating the apparent weekend abuse of a Future Farmers of America pig on the Davis High School campus. Lt. Ton Phan said a Davis High teacher arrived at the campus on Sunday...
View ArticleMan cited for assault on motorcyclist
The random assault of a motorcyclist led to the arrest of a Davis man early Tuesday morning, police said. Lt. Ton Phan said the incident occurred shortly after 1:30 a.m. at Fifth and L streets as the...
View ArticleWragg fire flare-up triggers new evacuations
A flare-up in the week-old Wragg fire near Lake Berryessa prompted another round of home evacuations Tuesday as firefighting crews added triple-digit temperatures and windy conditions to their...
View ArticleWoman arrested on burglary, weapon charges
Residents helped police nab a woman suspected of trying to steal a car in West Davis on Wednesday. Officers were summoned at about 2:30 p.m. to the 500 block of Lake Boulevard, where the car’s owner...
View ArticleCar crash leads officers to gun thief, runaway felon
Investigating a possible hit-and-run incident near the Chevron station on Chiles Road, Davis police officers approached a damaged vehicle Friday evening. Upon speaking with driver Derrick Holloway, an...
View ArticleBMW rolls over twice in Covell accident
After a possible high-speed driving accident, a bright-red BMW rolled over twice, landing on its roof on East Covell Blvd. at 5:41 p.m. Saturday. The passengers of the car — one male and one female,...
View ArticleBattery via bike and bar fights send three men to jail
During a busy, blue moon weekend for officers, three men in three separate incidents were arrested downtown for alleged battery. Jeromey Ng, 27, was arrested at 8 p.m. Friday downtown for alleged...
View ArticleWoman hospitalized and jailed during domestic violence arrests
After two arrests and a trip to the hospital, a Davis woman now resides in the Yolo County Jail for alleged domestic violence. Officers responded to an initial domestic violence call around 5:30 p.m....
View ArticleParole denied in West Sacramento gang slaying
A former West Sacramento man serving a life sentence for his role in a 1992 gang-related murder recently was denied parole for the third time, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office....
View ArticleRollover crash leads to DUI arrest
A Fair Oaks man is facing drunken driving charges after rolling his work truck east of Davis on Monday morning. Yury Petrik, 30, was traveling westbound on County Road 32A at about 60 mph and failed to...
View ArticleTransient who died near train tracks ID’d
A man whose body was found on the outskirts of downtown Davis in June has been identified as John Henry Chester Jr., a local transient, according to the Yolo County coroner’s office. Chester, 48, died...
View ArticleTrio convicted for roles in West Sacramento shooting
A Yolo County jury has convicted three people of criminal charges related to the near-fatal shooting of a man in West Sacramento last November — an incident that authorities say was gang-related....
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Growing Rocky fire prompts Yolo County evacuations
Authorities evacuated several remote Yolo County recreational areas over the weekend as fire crews continued to battle the rapidly growing Rocky fire to the west. The nearly week-old blaze had spread...
View ArticleBaby discovered in hot car at Target
Davis police are investigating an incident in which an infant was left in a hot car Monday in the Target parking lot. Lt. Ton Phan said officers were summoned to the Second Street store at about 3:30...
View ArticleEmergency aid
Three people were treated for minor injuries Wednesday following a two-vehicle collision at Eighth and B streets that left one of the cars overturned onto its left side, resting against a traffic pole....
View ArticleMom: West Sac murder suspect acted in self defense
The mother of a woman accused of fatally beating a man at a West Sacramento motel says her daughter was acting in self-defense that June morning. Susan Garza, a former Davis resident who now lives in...
View ArticleProbation, jail time imposed in Davis bank robbery case
WOODLAND — A Suisun City man who robbed a Bank of America branch in downtown Davis earlier this year was sentenced Thursday to probation and jail time. Eugene Leonard LeMasters, 57, was convicted in...
View ArticleApartment search leads to burglary, fraud arrest
Davis police arrested a West Sacramento man Thursday on suspicion of burglary and fraud. Aaron Francisco Mireles-Barajas, 22, was taken into custody after officers from the Police Department’s...
View ArticleTrial in Davis child death set for early 2016
The man accused of fatally beating a Davis toddler in 2014 is scheduled to go to trial on the two-year anniversary of the alleged crime. Darnell D’Angelo Dorsey, 22, faces felony child assault charges...
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