SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anerae Brown was on the rise as an up-and-coming rap artist when he joined a crime that turned deadly: the 1992 slaying of Meadowview community activist Patricia Harris. His own art became part of the case against him as he stood t…
Gavin Newsom shoots down bill to offer unemployment help to undocumented Californians
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom late Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made undocumented immigrants eligible for California unemployment benefits. The bill, known as theExcluded Workers Pilot Program, would have provided up to $300 a week …
How Kings rookie Keegan Murray is dealing with high expectations coming into NBA debut
One of Keegan Murray’s first tests since the Kings drafted him fourth overall over the summer didn’t come on a basketball court. It came on a ping-pong table. “I’m not even good at ping-pong,” Murray said Monday at Kings’ media day, his unofficial intr…
Caravan pressures Gov. Newsom to extend unemployment benefits to undocumented Californians
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With hundreds of bills awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto or approval, dozens of undocumented immigrant workers and allies are crossing the state in a two-day vehicle caravan to pressure him to sign legislation that would extend une…
Forest Service opens criminal investigation into Mosquito fire’s start, PG&E says in filing
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Forest Service has started a criminal investigation into the cause of the Mosquito fire and seized equipment belonging to Pacific Gas and Electric Co., according to a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission from P…
What Sherri Papini said in court before being sentenced for fabricating California kidnapping
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Before Sherri Papini was sentenced to 18 months in prison for admitting her 2016 kidnapping was a hoax, the Northern California mother of two delivered an emotional statement to Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb in a fede…
Mosquito fire is at 21% containment, but how will a shift in the weather affect the spread?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Firefighters are looking to gain the upper hand on the Mosquito fire in El Dorado and Placer counties ahead of an afternoon of stiff winds and possible rain Sunday. The fire, which erupted on Mosquito Road at Oxbow Reservoir the ev…
Sherri Papini’s lawyer asks for 1 month in prison, 7 months in home detention in kidnap hoax
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One day after federal prosecutors asked for an eight-month prison sentence for Sherri Papini for her 2016 kidnap hoax, her attorney asked a judge to give the 40-year-old Redding-area woman a one-month sentence in custody with seven…
Prosecutors want California’s Sherri Papini to serve 8 months for admitted kidnapping hoax
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to send Sherri Papini to prison for eight months as punishment for her kidnapping hoax, writing in court files that the Northern California mom continues to tell people she actually was kidnap…
Cellphones, meth, tobacco smuggled into Northern California prison leads to guilty plea
A former Citrus Heights legal assistant accused of smuggling drugs and contraband into Folsom State Prison on behalf of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang pleaded guilty Monday to racketeering conspiracy and drug charges in federal court in Sacramento. …