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Jessica Glynn was selected by the City Manager and members of the Marshal Plan to head the new department. Glynn has worked in Kosovo, the border town of Harlingen, Texas, and recently New York City.
Citrus Heights Police say Craig White, a paramedic and firefighter with the city of Sacramento since 2011, conned his way into a number of elderly neighbors' homes at a Citrus Heights mobile home park.
He's speaking out after the death of 12-year-old Ronin Shimizu on Wednesday. The seventh-grader took his own life after friends and family say he was the victim of bullying as the only male cheerleader of the Vista Junior Eagles Cheer Team.
The city of Davis spent Monday taking down dead trees, preparing for wind gusts up to 60 mph from the storm that's expected to hit in the late half of the week.
The Department of Motor Vehicles says Monday that nearly 379,000 appointments were made between November 12 and November 30. That's a 115-percent increase from the same period last year.
At the same time, a rapidly growing market for e-cigarettes and the possibility that the devices could be safer than regular cigarettes have some in the industry worried that regulation that's too heavy-handed would stifle the technological innovation - and their businesses.
The train operator says they saw the man in his 30s and threw on the emergency brakes, but it was too late and the man was struck.
The first retail hydrogen refueling station in Northern California is set to open in our region this week.
A storm will arrive on Wednesday night that will bring more rain than the storm that hit last week.
