Archive for November 13th, 2009

An emergency medical technician has been sentenced to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to raping an intoxicated woman at an Orange County hospital. »

The PG&E power plant at Salt Springs in Amador County overlooks the area of the Mokelumne River where the body of Steven Sid was found Sunday, Nov. »

Officials at a San Francisco high school have pulled all remaining copies of the student newspaper after inadvertently printing an ad inside for a white supremacist Web site. »

Merced dignitaries like county supervisors Hub Walsh and Deidre Kelsey participated in a roast of outgoing Mayor Ellie Wooten on Thursday. »

Merced dignitaries like county supervisors Hub Walsh and Deidre Kelsey participated in a roast of outgoing Mayor Ellie Wooten on Thursday. »

A U.S. District judge's lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos is "curious," a federal appeals court said in an opinion issued Friday. »

A Fresno man was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her brother in August 2007. Read comments »

A jury has awarded nearly $2.5 million to a woman who said she was forced out of the Fresno Fire Department's training academy in 2005 because of her gender. »

5 in Downtown Contact: Amy Blaisdell Communications Director City of Palm Springs 323-8250 Nov. »

Authorities have arrested two teenagers in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old San Jose boy outside his home. »

A federal judge has been rebuked for his lax oversight of more than $30 million tied to the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos. »

Police reports and 911 recordings reveal a frantic scene before San Jose police officers shot and killed a mentally ill man in May. »

A man has been convicted of the murder and torture of a woman in her San Diego County home and could get a death sentence. »

Regulators shut down two banks in Florida and one in California on Friday, boosting to 123 the number of U.S. bank failures this year as loan defaults rise in the worst financial climate in decades. »

Court documents say the estate of Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein is suing several defendants for wrongful death. »