Hot iron sparks South Davis house fire
An observant passerby and a closed door are being credited by the Davis Fire Department for preventing a South Davis house fire from causing more extensive damage than it did. Capt. Bobby Weist said an...
View ArticleReward offered for murder suspect’s arrest, conviction
A $5,000 reward fund has been established in the search for a Colusa man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving her body inside a parked vehicle in Woodland last month. The Colusa Police...
View ArticleUPDATED: Yolo County part of statewide violent crime investigation
SACRAMENTO — Wednesday’s law-enforcement crackdown on multiple homes in Yolo County and nine other California counties was the result of a yearlong investigation into the Varrio Bosque Norteño gang,...
View ArticleMan fatally struck by freight train in Davis
Davis had its second train-vs.-pedestrian fatality in two months this morning when a person was struck by a train near Second and K streets. According to information from the Davis police and fire...
View ArticlePolice seek tips about woman found burned in West Sacramento
A woman whose badly burned body was discovered in West Sacramento last weekend has been identified as a 35-year-old transient whose death remains suspicious in nature. Tangerie Laqueen Jones was known...
View ArticleUCD student struck, injured while cycling
A UC Davis student is recovering from major injuries she sustained Wednesday when she was hit by a vehicle while bicycling in Solano County. Marisa Paquette, a UCD senior and member of the university’s...
View ArticleTrain fatality ID’d as UCD student
Yolo County coroner’s officials have identified the man who was struck and killed by a freight train early Friday morning as Krisada Ruampatarasindhu, a 22-year-old UC Davis student. Ruampatarasindhu...
View ArticlePolice arrest 2 for racing on Covell
Davis police arrested two drivers and impounded their cars last week after observing them street-racing on West Covell Boulevard. In a Facebook post Tuesday, police officials reported that a patrol...
View ArticleFormer Visit Yolo exec pleads guilty to embezzlement
WOODLAND — The former Visit Yolo executive director accused of embezzling nearly $52,000 from the Davis-based tourism organization pleaded guilty to the felony allegations Wednesday during his first...
View ArticleCoroner: Girls died after dad set fire to car
Two young girls who were the victims of a New Year’s Eve murder-suicide died of asphyxiation from inhaling products of combustion — the result of a fire their father had set inside their vehicle,...
View ArticleFire damages Covell Park home
A home in the Covell Park neighborhood was damaged by a fire earlier this week, the Davis Fire Department reported Thursday. Crews were summoned to the home in the 2100 block of Del Rey Court at about...
View ArticleSix more indicted in ‘Operation Silent Night’ gang investigation
Federal authorities announced Thursday the indictments of six more people in connection with a multi-agency investigation into Woodland’s Varrio Bosque Norteño street gang, which last week led to home...
View ArticleYolo DA warns of ‘locator service’ phone scam
Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig is warning residents to beware of a recent telephone scam in which the scammers demand immediate payment from the victim in order to avoid arrest. The...
View ArticleTrain hits pedestrian south of Davis
The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a train versus pedestrian fatality near Davis — the area’s second in a week. Sgt. Matt Davis said the collision, which involved a freight train,...
View ArticleWest Sac man sentenced for vehicular manslaughter
Gerardo Lopez, 23, of West Sacramento was sentenced to six years, eight months, in state prison for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced Friday....
View ArticleFamily, pets escape East Davis blaze
An East Davis family and their four pets escaped unharmed from a house fire early Monday morning, thanks to an observant neighbor, the Davis Fire Department reported. Division Chief Joe Tenney said a...
View ArticleMan, child injured in Yolo County ATV crash off cliff
Two people, including an 8-year-old boy, were critically injured Sunday when their all-terrain vehicle plunged off a 40-foot cliff in the Capay Valley, according to the California Highway Patrol....
View ArticleWoodland youth baseball coach convicted of raping, molesting underage girl
A former youth baseball coach faces more than 100 years in state prison after being convicted last week of charges related to his sexual relationship with an underage girl, Yolo County District...
View ArticleDavis masseur on trial for sexual battery
WOODLAND — It was a shoulder injury that first brought Z onto Rodwin Vibat’s massage table at a Davis fitness club. “He was very good,” the Davis resident testified Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court as...
View ArticleTeen suspect arrested in Woodland shooting
Woodland police announced Tuesday the arrest of a 17-year-old boy on attempted murder charges in connection with a Feb. 12 shooting in a commercial parking lot. The 18-year-old victim sustained...
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