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Sacramento News

You call this a summer?

That reliable orange orb, the sun, still shines on summertime Sacramento, still bathes our patch of the Golden State in a gauzy glow, still spreads warmth and vitamin D for all who seek it.

Kate Towson, center, enjoys lunch in Sacramento's Cesar E. Chavez Plaza with Rose Feinman, left, and Rosa Nguyen on Wednesday, when the mercury registered a downtown high of a measly 94 degrees.

Working up a sweat took a little longer than usual for joggers in McKinley Park on Tuesday, when the downtown high was 88.

Javier Castro, 11, splashes Wednesday in a water play area in Rocklin's Lone Tree Park. For roofers and others who work outdoors the summer's mild temperatures have been a blessing.

S. Lake Tahoe council candidate likes pot, hates potholes

A typical politician runs for local seats first, before higher offices like governor or president.

Woman gets 15 to life in Elk Grove slaying of adopted daughter, 3

Officials long suspected that Sabrina Albert Banks abused children – burning a kid with a spoon, hitting a niece with a switch cut off a tree. They even arrested her once on suspicion of abusing a foster child who died in her custody.

Children get a rush out of gold in Old Sac

Flecks of gold came almost effortlessly to 9-year-old Shannon Mullins as she dipped a pan over and over again Friday in wooden troughs set up in Old Sacramento.

Mason Tompkins, 10, pans for gold in Old Sacramento on Friday during Gold Rush Days. The event, which runs through Monday, celebrates the area's role in California's history. Costumes, Pony Express riders, shootouts and gold panning are part of the weekend's activities.

Steve Pool plays a Pony Express rider on the streets of Old Sacramento on Friday as the area transformed itself into a scene from the state's Gold Rush era.

More than 200 tons of dirt was dumped onto the streets of Old Sacramento for this weekend's Gold Rush Days.

Tomato tycoon out of jail pending trial

On a scorching late-summer afternoon, tomato king Frederick Scott Salyer walked free Friday for the first time in eight months, bound for his Pebble Beach home where he will help plot the strategy that he hopes will defuse the serious charges he faces in Sacramento federal court.

Frederick Scott Salyer will face electronic monitoring and strict limits on his movements once he's back in his Pebble Beach home. The former processed tomato mogul is accused of selling moldy products and bribing food company managers.

Carrying a box of legal papers, Frederick Scott Salyer leaves the Sacramento County jail Friday with his attorney, Malcolm Segal. Lawyers for the former agribusiness tycoon have said his health was failing and that they couldn't prepare his defense properly as long as he remained behind bars.

North Highlands Rexall clerk's worst fear came true during second robbery attempt

Tania Gurskiy was working scared. She came home shaken from her job a month and a half ago, saying the North Highlands pharmacy where she worked had been held up at gunpoint.

A suspect, left, appears in video from a North Highlands drugstore shooting that killed a 27-year-old woman. A second suspect, above, is seen in video released by the sheriff's office.

Tania Gurskiy, 27, was killed when a second heist exploded into a shootout.

A second suspect is seen in video released by the sheriff's office.

Man killed in Del Paso Heights crash identified

The Sacramento County Coroner's Office has identified the man killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday night as Hector Gutierrez-Garcia, 43, of Sacramento.

Slain Sacramento teen had a passion for cars, helping others

Last year, Christopher Xiong bought his first car – a weather-beaten, dark green 1991 Honda Civic – and started ferrying his younger sisters to and from school and driving his mother to the grocery store.

Christopher Xiong

Check it out

Sacramento's Fremont Park will again be an oasis of art during the 20th annual Chalk-It-Up Festival.

Several streets will be closed this weekend

Sacramento will be a busy place through Labor Day – and that will pose traffic challenges. The Sacramento Police Department issued an alert about several upcoming events and their effect on traffic: