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A 10-year-old Winters girl, who prosecutors say was sleeping in the next room when Felipe Cruz Herna Full Story »
A 10-year-old Winters girl, who prosecutors say was sleeping in the next room when Felipe Cruz Herna Full Story »
Sacramento County Sheriff's Department gang unit detectives have arrested a teenager on suspicion of killing a young man in October. Full Story »
Mayor Kevin Johnson said today that Westfield, owner of the Downtown Plaza, has agreed to step aside and, if necessary, sell its interest in the shopping mall. Full Story »
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society is looking for local heroes worthy of its coveted Citizen Service Above Self Honors. Full Story »
An appellate court in Sacramento moved to return defense attorney Gilbert Maines as Nancy Garrido's lawyer today, ordering the trial judge to reinstate Maines or explain why he should remain banned. Full Story »
A woman has been shot and killed by police at a Modesto elementary school after the woman walked onto campus with a large knife and began "injuring herself", according to Modesto police. Full Story »
A Sonoma County judge ruled that a bride will not be held liable for the car crash caused by a teenager who drank at her wedding. In 2006, 20-year-old Joshua Apodaca and 19-year-old Sean Bradley attended Jennifer Tharp's wedding. Bradley was served alcohol by Paradise Ridge Winery employees. Full Story »
A teacher and volleyball coach at Christian Brothers High School has been fired after allegations surfaced that he inappropriately touched a female student. Full Story »
It looks like a big chunk of Sacramento real estate may hit the market soon. After months of trying to get the owners of Sacramento's Downtown Plaza to invest more in the struggling mall, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says the owners are now willing to sell. Full Story »
The Placerville lawyer who was replaced as kidnapping suspect Nancy Garrido's defense lawyer may be getting his job back. Full Story »
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Illinois insurance executive pleaded guilty Tuesday to secretly shooting nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who repeatedly called her stalker a sexual predator and said she hopes he "never sees the light of day." Full Story »
TRACY — A judge says the popular Carnegie State Vehicular Recreational Area southwest of here will be shut down to off-roaders until the state gets a permit for erosion into a seasonal creek. Full Story »
A recall election will be held in the coming months for the Stockton Unified School Board seat currently held by Trustee Dan Castillo, according to San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters Austin Erdman. Full Story »
COPENHAGEN (AP) — In a showdown between the world's two largest polluters, China accused the United States and other rich nations Tuesday of backsliding on fighting global warming and the top U.S. envoy said Chinese greenhouse gas emission... Full Story »
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university bearing his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Full Story »
Woodland police say they've arrested a bandit who used a blowtorch to commit crimes. Full Story »
A Chico native and UC Davis graduate is on track for a trip to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in a bobsled. Full Story »
The state is blocking four landowners on two Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands from taking water that officials say they don't have permission to use. Full Story »
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a killing from 2008. Full Story »
Victor Flores, 9, said he still has nightmares about rescuing his neighbor from icy waters. Full Story »
A request by a local downtown businessman for a sign at his store doesn't meet city guidelines and should be denied, according to city planning staff. Full Story »
The U.S. Senate has passed an omnibus appropriations bill that includes funding requested by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, for key initiatives in the Bay Area, including three projects in Solano County. Full Story »
Trial has been postponed for a Vacaville man facing murder charges in connection with a Super Bowl Sunday stabbing last year. Full Story »
The Vacaville Veterans Hall is still in need of donations and volunteers for its annual Christmas Eve meal for the community. Full Story »
A February preliminary court hearing has been scheduled for one of eight people arrested in connection with a 2008 Solano County torture-murder case. Full Story »
The biggest donors to the Gallo Center for the Arts are offering an additional $1.5million challenge grant to help bring it out of the red. Full Story »
An 11-year-old student at Catherine Everett Elementary School said the woman who walked an campus with a knife today appeared to be bleeding profusely after she cut herself with what police described as a butcher knife or meat cleaver. Full Story »
A woman carrying a large knife entered a Modesto grade school playground this afternoon, police said. As children were taken to safety inside, police shot and mortally wounded the woman.Student offers chilling description.Map: Where shooting took place.Video: Report from scene. Full Story »
Modesto's Jeremy Renner fell short in his bid to claim a Golden Globe Award nomination for best actor this morning. However, the movie he starred in, "The Hurt Locker," was nominated for best motion picture (drama), and two other awards. Full Story »
The Modesto City Council on Monday voted 7-0 to: •: Form a special tax district for Kie Full Story »
The state has ordered four landowners on two Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands to stop taking water that officials say they don't have permission to use. Full Story »
Wednesday night's Sacramento Kings game against the Washington Wizards is the first nationally televised game the Kings play at home this season. It will also feature a dollar beer promotion for ticket holders. Full Story »
You won't even have to get out of your car to donate a new or gently used coat at Wednesday's News10 Coats for Kids Drive-Thru Blitz at locations around the valley. Full Story »
A donation mix-up has left a local charity scrambling for donations as the Christmas holiday draws near. Full Story »
Six months after Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies found Sevon Boles, 26, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds at an apartment complex in Sacramento, two men have been arrested for his murder. Full Story »
An Illinois insurance executive pleaded guilty Tuesday to secretly shooting nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who repeatedly called her stalker a sexual predator in court and said she hopes he "never sees the light of day." Full Story »
FOX40.com - Northern California's breaking news source - First to report... A woman has died following a police incident that led to a shooting near a Modesto elementary school. Full Story »
FOX40.com - Northern California's breaking news source Catherine Everett Elementary School has been placed on lockdown after a police incident this afternoon. Full Story »
FOX40.com - Northern California's breaking news source Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium - and his message of God's healing power - to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Full Story »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a proposal that would make his the first city in the country to require radiation labels for cell phones. Full Story »
TRUCKEE, Calif. - While the economy is showing signs of improvement, an area economics professor says recovery may move slowly in Truckee/Tahoe - mainly due to dual influences of Nevada and California. "Truckee is right in between California and Nevada, two of the worst states - at least it's not between Michigan," said University of Nevada, Reno, economics Professor Tom Harris, during the Dec ... Full Story »
You may have noticed that all is not well in the Global Warming industry. The release by hackers of over a thousand emails and documents from the U.K.'s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit is causing quite a stir with name-calling, accusations and important resignations reaching all the way to American Universities. Unfortunately for the Global Warming proponents, the leaked ... Full Story »
On one early misty morning during the week of Thanksgiving at a parking lot at a Truckee golf course, two trucks drove up with 17 hunting dogs and out-of-town bear hunting guides meeting with their clients who had obtained bear permits. They drove past the Save-Mart shopping center to just a couple hundred yards past the town limits on Highway 89 south. Parking just past private property, they ... Full Story »
Editor's Note: This is part 3 in a series of editorials about the lessons learned from the economic recession. When the stock market made its run off a cliff a year ago and many residents saw their retirement savings dwindle, many saw philanthropy as more of a risk than a reward. In other words, it became socially acceptable to be selfish. Donations that had made it possible to have a full ... Full Story »
Right on, President Obama! What a killer speech he gave in Oslo, Norway when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. I hope all the far left people in North Tahoe, Truckee and Glenshire took notice. The commander in chief agrees with me that not everyone in the world wants to coexist. To paraphrase him, he said there will always be violent people in the world who want to destroy entire nations of ... Full Story »
A fifth suspected member of a group of Valley Springs residents that allegedly built and detonated several bombs in the small community was jailed Friday. Timothy Lee Cree, 43, of the 6200 block of Southworth Road, was booked on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and three bomb-related charges. Full Story »
The legal battle over whether a man, sentenced to death two decades ago for murdering a Glencoe mother of two is psychologically fit to be executed moved slowly forward Monday. George Smithey was found guilty in 1989 of murdering Cheryl Nesler during a robbery and attempted rape at her home in April of the year before. Full Story »
The boxes start arriving at the Angels Camp Post Office some time after Thanksgiving. Bearing postmarks from across the country — indeed, from around the globe — they are all addressed to Postmaster Laney Huffman, and they are all filled with Christmas cards. Full Story »
The California Highway Patrol does not suspect wrong doing in an incident on Big Hill Road that left a Clovis Unified school bus resting precariously close to a Columbia-area cliff. According to CHP spokesman Officer Mike Remmel, the other bus involved was a Belleview School District bus driven by Rose Mary Hofland, of Jamestown. In Hofland’s statement to the CHP, her bus did not cross into the ... Full Story »
The lawyer for the man who allegedly attempted to set fire to St. James Anglican Church in Sonora wants an expert to determine if his client is psychologically competent to stand trial. Public defender Robert Price, in papers filed with Tuolumne County Superior Court on Wednesday, said that Thomas Joseph Layden III, 62, a transient, will be examined by a psychiatrist. Full Story »
A lynx is released in Villafranca de Cordoba, southern Spain. AFP/Cristina Quicler
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