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A Shasta Lake man is in custody following a hit-and-run collision in Citrus Heights that left a motorcyclist with major injuries, according to police.

As police continued their investigation into the incident at Jack in the Box, one detail remained elusive: Why Xang Khang ignored an opportunity to clean out the registers and flee before police arrived.

A hostage, escorted at left, leaves the Jack in the Box in the 8300 block of Folsom Boulevard during a police standoff Saturday.

A Roseville man was arrested after he allegedly rammed a vehicle during a dispute with another motorist on Highway 49 near Auburn.

A 31-year-old man who called 911 Sunday to report that his uncle had been shot and killed in the driveway of his Herald home was arrested tonight on suspicion of murder.

Family and friends of Sacramento County jail inmates who want to communicate in writing will have to correspond via postcards.

The jury spoke, and the shackled Steven Andrew Zinda walked out of a Sacramento courtroom Tuesday as a certified ax murderer, if only in the second degree.

Steven A. Zinda of Rio Linda, right, listens as his murder verdict is read Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court. Zinda confessed to chasing down and killing David Valdez, 20, with an ax because he erroneously thought Valdez had burglarized his home.

Charles Taylor, best friend of murder victim David Valdez, consoles his own mother, Christine Taylor, after Steven Zinda, who confessed to the killing, was convicted of killing Valdez with an ax.

The mother of an El Dorado Hills youngster who fatally shot a 10-year-old playmate with a pellet gun last year has pleaded not guilty to a charge of felony child abuse and endangerment stemming from the death.

Keegan Swinney, 10, was fatally struck by a pellet from a Remington Airmaster .177 held by a playmate. His father said Keegan knew the danger of guns and "tried to move away."

Testimony began Wednesday in another Sacramento pot robbery murder trial, with a dealer once again getting killed, the prosecutor said, by somebody out to steal his weed and money.

A teenager spotted with a concealed weapon near the tennis courts at Inderkum High School was arrested Wednesday, just a day after a man and woman were arrested at the school for allegedly assaulting a student and staff member, according to police officials.

A former Elk Grove man has been charged with mail fraud related to embezzlement from his former employer.

Weili Kao was already serving a 16-year prison term for choking her 6-year-old stepdaughter, knocking her to the ground and putting her in a coma in 2004.

Weili Kao told officers that she was disciplining her stepdaughter.

Felony convictions for vandalism and burglary didn't disqualify Ryan Schomberg from being hired earlier this year as an instructional aide to special education students at Albert Einstein Middle School, despite police reports describing the then 21-year-old as being violent with officers during his arrest last year.

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Placer County sheriff's detectives relied on DNA evidence to arrest an ex-employee of a care home suspected of impregnating a severely mentally disabled woman.

The Yolo County District Attorney's Office is warning computer users of phone calls from scam artists pretending to represent well-known companies like Microsoft, Dell or Norton.

Testifying in exchange for dismissal of murder charges that had been filed against her, Danisha Holton followed through on her end of the deal Tuesday and identified Nathaniel James Carter as the gunman in the Oct. 29, 2010, Foothill Farms pot-robbery killing of Steven Carmassi.

Nathaniel James Carter

A federal grand jury has returned a 20-count indictment against Vincent Doyle, formerly chief financial officer of the Folsom civil engineering firm of Morton & Pitalo Inc.

An investigation into the misuse of credit cards at Sacramento City Hall culminated in the arrest Tuesday of Lisa Serna-Mayorga, a former aide to Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Lisa Serna-Mayorga allegedly used a city credit card for $19,000 in personal items.

The former caregiver arrested last week on suspicion of raping a Placer County disabled woman entered a no-contest plea today.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office has added an investigator to focus on elder abuse.

Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed a former Pennsylvania prison chief to head California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Brown's office announced Wednesday.

Jeffrey Beard, 65, the nominee to lead California's corrections agency, was Pennsylvania's prisons chief from 2001-10.

Motorcyclist badly hurt in hit-and-run; man arrested

Motive unknown in Jack in the Box standoff

Sacto 9-1-1: Roseville man accused of ramming vehicle on Highway 49

Sacto 9-1-1: Nephew arrested in fatal shooting at Herald residence

Sacto 9-1-1: New jail mail policy intended to keep out contraband

Jury returns with second-degree murder conviction for ax killer

Mother of boy who fatally shot friend with pellet gun pleads not guilty of child abuse

Sacramento trial begins in Foothill Farms killing of marijuana dealer

Police arrest gun suspect one day after fight at Inderkum campus

Sacto 9-1-1: Former Elk Grove man accused of embezzling $2.5 million

Woman gets 15 years to life in second-degree murder of stepdaughter

The Public Eye: Error blamed in hiring of substitute instructional aide with felony record

Placer County detectives arrest man for rape of disabled woman

Sacto 911: Yolo DA warns of scammers offering computer tech support

Witness in Sacramento pot murder trial tells of death threats against her

Folsom civil engineering firm's former CFO indicted

Ex-aide to Sacramento mayor arrested, accused of theft of public funds

Sacto 9-1-1: Man pleads no contest to raping disabled woman at Penryn facility

El Dorado County Sheriff's Office investigator to probe elder abuse

Brown appoints former Pennsylvania corrections head to run California prisons