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Sacramento

Law firm embezzler sentenced to five years

SACRAMENTO — A Herald woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in prison on charges related to the embezzlement of approximately $1.3 million from a Sacramento law firm.

Santa Barbara

Masked gunmen hold up Lompoc McDonald’s

LOMPOC — An early morning armed robbery took place at the McDonald’s on North H Street today, during which two masked intruders held three employees at gunpoint and escaped with

Santa Barbara

Intoxicated drivers, cyclist demonstrate reasoning for DUI crackdown

LOMPOC — The Lompoc Police Department saw good reason this week to continue its campaign against drunk driving, as five less-than-lucid motorists and one intoxicated man on a bicycle were

Sacramento

Mother suspected in daughter’s drowning

SACRAMENTO — Police made a chilling discovery early Sunday morning when a father’s worst fears were confirmed: His 3-year-old daughter had drowned, allegedly at the hands of the girl’s mother.

Sacramento

Mother suspected in daughter's drowning

SACRAMENTO — Police made a chilling discovery early Sunday morning when a father’s worst fears were confirmed: His 3-year-old daughter had drowned, allegedly at the hands of the girl’s mother.

Sacramento

Sacramento police looking into two deadly shootings

SACRAMENTO — Homicide investigators are looking into two separate shooting murders that occurred less than three days apart in the Sacramento area. A 35-year-old man was found lying dead of

Alameda Sacramento

Dublin man falls to online exploitation crackdown

SACRAMENTO — A Dublin man was sentenced Thursday in federal court to a decade in prison for using the Internet to seek sex with an underage female. According to Assistant

El Dorado

Marijuana plants seized at empty home

EL DORADO HILLS — A trail of potting soil and marijuana leaves lead authorities to the site of a sophisticated marijuana growing operation hiding in a quiet residential neighborhood Saturday

Sacramento

Rash of burglaries sweeps through Sacramento neighborhoods

SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento neighborhoods of Pocket and Greenhaven have suffered 15 residential burglaries in a span of six days, police reported Thursday. In a release, the Sacramento Police Department

San Diego

Investment fraud suspects targeted Hispanic community

CARLSBAD — Local police nabbed their first suspects in a nine-year-old investment fraud case that has claimed 25 victims in San Diego County and parts of Southern California. Investigators think