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Santa Barbara

Masked gunmen hold up Lompoc McDonald’s

LOMPOC — An early morning armed robbery took place at the McDonald’s on North H Street today, during which two masked intruders held three employees at gunpoint and escaped with

Santa Barbara

Intoxicated drivers, cyclist demonstrate reasoning for DUI crackdown

LOMPOC — The Lompoc Police Department saw good reason this week to continue its campaign against drunk driving, as five less-than-lucid motorists and one intoxicated man on a bicycle were

Sacramento

Mother suspected in daughter’s drowning

SACRAMENTO — Police made a chilling discovery early Sunday morning when a father’s worst fears were confirmed: His 3-year-old daughter had drowned, allegedly at the hands of the girl’s mother.

Sacramento

Mother suspected in daughter's drowning

SACRAMENTO — Police made a chilling discovery early Sunday morning when a father’s worst fears were confirmed: His 3-year-old daughter had drowned, allegedly at the hands of the girl’s mother.

Sacramento

Sacramento police looking into two deadly shootings

SACRAMENTO — Homicide investigators are looking into two separate shooting murders that occurred less than three days apart in the Sacramento area. A 35-year-old man was found lying dead of

Alameda Sacramento

Dublin man falls to online exploitation crackdown

SACRAMENTO — A Dublin man was sentenced Thursday in federal court to a decade in prison for using the Internet to seek sex with an underage female. According to Assistant

El Dorado

Marijuana plants seized at empty home

EL DORADO HILLS — A trail of potting soil and marijuana leaves lead authorities to the site of a sophisticated marijuana growing operation hiding in a quiet residential neighborhood Saturday

Sacramento

Rash of burglaries sweeps through Sacramento neighborhoods

SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento neighborhoods of Pocket and Greenhaven have suffered 15 residential burglaries in a span of six days, police reported Thursday. In a release, the Sacramento Police Department

San Diego

Investment fraud suspects targeted Hispanic community

CARLSBAD — Local police nabbed their first suspects in a nine-year-old investment fraud case that has claimed 25 victims in San Diego County and parts of Southern California. Investigators think

San Diego

Shelter resident roughed up homeless man in wheelchair, police say

CARLSBAD — A homeless man was arrested Tuesday morning for beating up a fellow resident of a men’s shelter and taking the wheelchair-bound victim’s cash, police said in a release.