Sacramento County

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's attorney general sued "tax lady" Roni Deutch for more than $34 million on Monday, alleging that her law firm regularly violates state law by making false promises that it will help people resolve disputes with the...

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted to restore more than 22-million-dollars to public safety today. Nearly 18 million of that will go to the Sheriff's Department. That means the sheriff is now dealing with losing 20 million dollars in funding...

It seems the boycott bug is spreading. First Sacramento's City Council started the ball rolling by voting to boycott Arizona businesses over that State's new immigration law. Now, a Sacramento County man has started a "boycott Sacramento" website. He...

Do you think your teen is having sex? Many parents would say no. The harsh reality is that only about half of them would be right. Children are engaging in sex at younger ages than in the past, experts say. Combine that with a steady increase in...

Years ago, pundits and pols began redrawing the California political map with an east-west divide, erasing the historic north-south split. Now they can partition it north-south again, at least in mapping the reignited water war. In voting patterns and...

California sued State Street Bank and Trust today for allegedly committing "unconscionable fraud" against the state's two largest public pension funds, and seeks more than $200 million in overcharges and penalties. Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown contends that...

A story you saw first on FOX40... A baby's death in Rancho Cordova, exposing a potential problem between the Sacramento Sheriff's Department and Child Protective Services. It was potentially a life-or-death case file, and it sat on someone's desk for...

An increasing number of California school districts are edging closer to financial insolvency, state officials reported Tuesday. One immediate effect has been the layoff of teachers — probably in the thousands, although neither state officials nor the...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and friends made Saturday clean-up and upgrade day at hundreds of parks throughout the Sacramento region. The project is part of the Mormon Church's "Helping Hands" campaign to perform park maintenance...

Authorities in Sacramento "strongly believe" that a man accused of molesting a boy in Sacramento may have victimized youth in Southern California, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. Richard "Butch" Guillen, 60, is accused of...

In support of the California Department of Fish and Game and its efforts to keep hunters and anglers informed, Outposts, on Thursday or Friday, posts marine biologist Carrie Wilson's weekly Q&A column: Question: To allow catch-and-release fishing in no-...

So what happens when an allegedly corrupt tomato king needs space to wade through a mountain of evidentary paperwork -- and a budget-wary government realizes it's costing a pretty penny in staffing costs? You go to court, of course. Federal......