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Authorities say a 1,200-acre wildfire near Redding in northern California is 30 percent contained and has destroyed two outbuildings. Officials say five homes were damaged but firefighters were able to save them all.
Scott Peterson on Thursday filed the automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supreme Court, maintaining as he always has that he had nothing to do with the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son Connor.
The City of Sacramento tells a homeowner to fix the sidewalk in front of her home. Allison Brinkerhoff says the damage to the sidewalk is from a city-owned tree. It's a thousand dollar job she thinks shouldn't be her responsibility so she called Kurtis.
Six-year-old Skylah Carr is in a hospital bed suffering from second and third degree burns over 15 percent of her body, injuries that will keep her at Shriners Hospital for weeks.
A pack of dogs went after a cyclist and sent him to the hospital.
This isn't the first death threat former Isleton police chief Steve Adams has received, but he says it's by far the scariest.
With all the communicative access to current local, national, and global information, expecting the masses to settle for media headlines and sound bites is insulting to today's technologically-aware audience.
The light rail train has been in Sacramento since 1987, but Gov. Jerry Brown is looking to the future by pushing the high speed rail.
A convicted serial killer could be temporarily freed from death row to help search for the remains of long-dead victims under a bill the state Senate approved Thursday.
The California Assembly has approved legislation authorizing about $4.5 billion in state bond funding for a high-speed rail system backed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
A 6-year-old girl in Woodland was burned Wednesday night while playing with fireworks, say police.
Firefighters have contained a wildfire that had been burning in El Dorado County and was threatening homes.
Fireworks tossed in the trash caused a garbage truck to catch fire early Thursday morning.
A police dog from the Santa Clara Police Department that went missing in Roseville after being spooked by fireworks has been found.
In right wing politics, ALEC serves as the nexus between corporations and aspiring Republicans always eager to find access to additional campaign cash.
