REDDING (CBS13) — A man who Shasta County Sheriff’s Deputies found with his hands severed is accused of stabbing his father multiple times. Shasta County Deputies reported arriving at a Redding home on Scheer Drive and finding two subjects with visible injuries. One man, Gregory Alan Dunn, 59, appeared to have been stabbed multiple times. Deputies suspect the other man, Dunn’s son, Jason, stabbed him repeatedly with a pair of scissors during a verbal altercation. They say after
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A California couple is facing prison time after juries convicted them of luring an acquaintance to their home and strangling her to kidnap her 2-month-old boy.
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Aetna Inc. will stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, just weeks after opting out of the exchange that is being established as part of the national health care reforms, a state regulator said Tuesday.
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A recent study says California can serve as a national model for the way it reduced the number of juvenile offenders incarcerated in state and county lockups.
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The 16-year-old boy accused of killing a Davis couple two months ago will be charged as an adult in the double homicide, Yolo County officials said Tuesday.
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The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District says it has recently received dozens of specially designed oxygen masks to save the lives of pets, including snakes and gerbils.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Sacramento mom accused of driving under the influence in a crash that killed her son made an appearance in court on Tuesday. An emotional Tyesha Garrett, 32, said little in court on Tuesday, only acknowledging to the judge that if she was able to make bail, she won’t be allowed to drink alcohol. Police say Garrett is to blame for the accident on the onramp along Northgate and Interstate 80 that took
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Rancho Cordova will contract with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services for at least three more years while continuing to evaluate other options for police services. Rancho Cordova has contracted with the Sheriff's Department for policing services since incorporating in July 2003.
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A 16-year-old Davis boy is being held without bail in the April stabbing deaths of longtime attorney and musician Oliver Northup and wife Claudia Maupin after police arrested him Monday. Oliver Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin Police tape limits access April 15 to the home in Davis where Oliver Northup and his wife, Claudia Maupin, were found fatally stabbed. Davis police received assistance from the FBI, the state and other jurisdictions in the investigation.
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A 17-year-old driver suffered minor injuries after losing control of an SUV that ended up in a slough, police said Tuesday.
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DAVIS (CBS13) — Daniel Marsh, 16, faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin. In addition, there are a series of enhancements added. (Read: Daniel Marsh Complaint) In both counts, he faces a court enhancement of the use of a deadly weapon in the deaths of the couple. Special case enhancements allege that Marsh: 1. intentionally killed more than one person, 2. demonstrated exceptional depravity in the killing, 3. was lying in wait to
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento is only one of two heart transplant programs in Northern California. And CBS13 was there Tuesday as they discharged their 155th patient. They say no man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. For one local doctor, that proved to be true after receiving his own transplant. Research doctor Stephan Lakos suffered heart failure after years of disease, and faced certain death. But doctors implanted a
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A man was arrested on suspicion of homicide and various other charges for allegedly tossing a firebomb into a Rio Linda home last night. Billie Cooper
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Federal sequester cuts will take an 8 percent bite out of regional seniors' programs funded through the Older Americans Act, instead of the 4 percent reduction that the Area 4 Agency on Aging was expecting, according to the agency's new executive director, Pam Miller.
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Unclaimed high school diplomas are usually held for a year before they get discarded and lost forever.
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A Sacramento man arrested and later released in connection with a 2012 wildfire in Placer County that charred more than 2,500 acres has been rearrested.
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Northern California residents are taking note of a weather event happening in the sky today. Moisture in the form of ice crystals in the cirrostratus clouds are creating a halo effect that appears to surround the sun. The moisture is being pushed into our region by a storm to the northwest over the pacific. What is that ring around the #Sacramento sun today?! Here is a detailed explanation on Halos. http://t.co/TCU2FCYbn8 #cawx — Ian Schwartz (@IanCBS13)
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The Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District reported Tuesday that an American robin found in northwest Roseville tested positive for West Nile virus.
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Sacramento County health authorities are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that may be associated with a frozen berry blend sold at Costco.
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A strike team of 22 firefighters from Cosumes Fire and Sacramento City fire deployed to Mariposa County to aid in the firefight against the Carstens fire.
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