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El Dorado Nevada

Fake-bearded, fedora-wearing bandit strikes again

GRASS VALLEY — For the fourth time in the past four months, a man wearing a fedora and a fake beard robbed yet another bank. The latest robbery occurred March

Sacramento

Witnesses, surveillance lead to suspect murderer's arrest

SACRAMENTO — Police arrested 25-year-old Casey Brown for the murder of 68-year-old Bernice Nickson, a transient who was fatally stabbed while sleeping early Saturday morning near the Capitol Mall. At

Sacramento

Witnesses, surveillance lead to suspect murderer’s arrest

SACRAMENTO — Police arrested 25-year-old Casey Brown for the murder of 68-year-old Bernice Nickson, a transient who was fatally stabbed while sleeping early Saturday morning near the Capitol Mall. At

Riverside

Firing range fire could be arson

HEMET — Law enforcement officials are investigating what appears to be a fifth attack aimed at police. Officials confirmed that a police firing range in a remote area off Warren

Santa Barbara Ventura

DNA match may have cracked yearlong mystery in Ventura triple murder

VENTURA — Just as hope was beginning to wane in a yearlong investigation into a brutal triple-murder, a DNA sample in an unrelated crime may have revealed the man behind

Sacramento Yolo

Hostage situation in Woodland ends with arrest

WOODLAND — As his mother and brother looked on in horror, a 6-year-old boy was held hostage by a Sacramento man early Saturday morning in the family’s Woodland apartment, police

Sacramento

Accused software pirates indicted

SACRAMENTO — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted two recent Roseville residents on charges the pair conspired to commit copyright infringement by selling pirated software, even after receiving a

Celebrity News Santa Barbara

Arrest warrants re-issued for Quaid, wife

SANTA BARBARA — Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are once again wanted by California authorities, after missing two scheduled court appearances last week. The couple had been set

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara retirement community staffer suspected of embezzlement

SANTA BARBARA — Following a yearlong investigation into the workplace activities of a prominent local retirement community’s billing clerk and occasional bookkeeper, Santa Barbara police arrested Norma Fay White, 60,

Sacramento

‘British Bandit’ pleads guilty to serial bank robbery

SACRAMENTO — A man dubbed the “British Bandit” for using a flamboyant accent in two Sacramento-area bank robberies last year pleaded guilty Monday in federal court. Investigators gave Patrick Edward