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A man who kidnapped a 68-year-old nurse and forced her to drink alcohol until she passed out was sentenced Friday to a life term in prison, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced.
A Citrus Heights man was killed in a two-vehicle accident Friday morning.
Authorities are trying to identify a mother who abandoned her young girl in a teen's North Sacramento home.
Dennis Manley and his neighbors thought the idea of repaving their neighborhood streets was a good one.
Several dozen protesters faced off with riot police at a downtown Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday in the latest demonstration against the transit agency and its police department, leading to a two-hour shutdown of the station during rush hour and as many as 30 arrests.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday called for bipartisan cooperation on his California jobs plan, which he said would end a "toxic tax loophole" and use proceeds for small businesses and working families.
California lawmakers on Thursday were crafting a compromise bill with Amazon.com that would delay until next year a law forcing Internet retailers to collect sales tax on online purchases.
Ignacio Favela Mendoza, a 41-year-old Yuba City man, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday afternoon for the murder of his wife, according to District Attorney Jeff Reisig.
Electricity was restored in San Diego early Friday after utility crews worked around-the-clock to make emergency repairs following an outage accidentally triggered by a utility worker that darkened a swath of California, Arizona and Mexico and paralyzed the nation's eighth-largest city.
A task force established by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is recommending a plan to raise nearly $400 million to build a downtown arena, a key step in the city's efforts to keep the NBA's Kings.
The family of an 8-year-old girl allegedly abused by embattled Creative Frontiers School Principal Robert Adams is filing a civil lawsuit Thursday, according to the family's attorney.
Sacramento police arrested a 17-year-old boy Thursday afternoon after he brought a loaded handgun on to the American Legion High School campus, according to authorities.
A 4-year-old boy died in a house fire overnight in Pleasant Valley.
Families who lost loved ones in the nation's deadliest pipeline accident in a decade are forming a new nonprofit group, harnessing their grief to press for strict controls over the high-pressure gas lines coursing below homes across the country.
