Chew Lam starts his morning with a combination of tai chi and meditation and then ambles across the gravel parking lot from his West Sacramento apartment to King's Restaurant. There he sips on a cup of Hills Bros. coffee – never another brand – and starts up industrial-sized woks of sizzling fried rice.

The routine has been the s...

William Murray, a Sacramento accountant who stole more than $13 million from 52 clients between 2001 and 2009, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to mail fraud and interference with tax administration.

U. S. District Judge Edward J. Garcia ordered Murray to immediately be taken into custody by deputy U. S. marshals. The judge set sentencing for May 28.

Murray, 55, told clients to write checks to accounts under his control so he could pay taxes or make investments on their behalf....

The prosecutor said the evidence is compelling and leaves "no question about what was done in this case and who did it" – and the defense attorneys agreed.

Now, the only questions left are whether Elk Grove shooting-spree gunman Aaron Norman Dunn murdered in the first or second degree and whether his penalty will result in life in prison or death.

While the legal battle will be resolved over the next couple of months, the wife of Michael John Daly told a Sacramento...

A hub for regenerative medical research opens today in Sacramento, putting the University of California, Davis, in the forefront of stem cell researc...

In a test of how much marijuana reasonably can be carried for personal medical needs, a Sacramento jury Tuesday convicted a man of felony transportation for attempting to take 3 pounds of pot through Sacramento International Airport.

The case of Matthew Zugsberger, 34, a deep sea diver injured in an oil rig accident, left ju...

A 29-year-old Maine man who authorities say was at the heart of a Lake County-based marijuana operation is now at the center of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two of his employees.

Robby Alan Beasley of Augusta, Maine, is a "person of interest" in the deaths of Frank and Yvette Maddox, whose bodies were discovered last week at the bottom of a roadside embankment, said Capt. Jim Bauman, spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff's Department.

Detectives have focused on Beasley ...

Reporters at The Sacramento Bee have won three awards in recent weeks for their coverage in 2009.

Charles Piller won a national enterprise writing award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his piece on West Sacramento's Community Business Bank.

Piller's story exposed how federal TARP money received by the bank was most likely to benefit a small group of bank insiders and their associates.

In a statement, SABEW's president said the work behind all of the o...

The California Highway Patrol handed out 80 citations during the weekend along a stretch of roadway known for daredevil driving.

The special enforcement effort was conducted on Salmon Falls Road and Highway 49 in response to citizen complaints and fatal accidents, according to a CHP news release.

Patrol units and law enforcement aircraft combined to write tickets for violations that included passing over the double yellow lines, failure to wear a seat belt, speeding, drunken driving a...

Sierra College will continue to teach agriculture, construction and automotive courses next year, trustees decided Tuesday when they voted to rescind layoff notices for seven instructors who received them last month.

But the vocational programs will offer fewer classes. The college is facing an $11.2 million deficit for the coming year.

Sierra College officials will spend the next several months evaluating the programs.

Trustees will likely be asked to vote on the future of those...

For the first time in nearly a year, the city of Sacramento has an auditor to look at its books.

Jorge Oseguera began his appointment as city auditor Monday and will immediately dive into the ongoing examination of the embattled development department.

Hired from a crop of three finalists by a unanimous City Council vote late last month, Oseguera will be involved in finding a third-party auditor to look at the development department amid reports of uncollected developer fees and other...

A young man who spent years bringing light and sound to the American River College stage was pronounced brain-dead Thursday morning, four days after a car accident killed his friend and left him tenuously clinging to life.

Andy Hoover, 24, was sitting in the back seat of a 1986 Toyota driven by 18-year-old Jenna Faeth, who died in Sunday's single-car crash. Police say the car drifted off Highway 99 near Madera, then overturned several times.

The two theater students, along with Hoover...

Something a little bit magical happened when Jenna Faeth took the stage. Was it the way the petite 18-year-old widened her big brown eyes? Was it her meticulous study of each line, or the compassion she extended to every character she played?

No one, not even her parents, can quite put a finger on how such a shy teenager could transform into an actress who consistently mesmerized audiences.

"She had this air about her," said her friend Johnny Sittisin. "You couldn't help but stop and ...