Like many Americans her age do each winter, Rosalie Achiu hopped on a flight to escape the cold for somewhere balmy. Achiu, a 75-year-old woman with dementia, was alone on her way to a tropical island less than a month after a series of bizarre incidents that seemed to stem from a seemingly routine welfare check by law enforcement.
Read moreA school district in California’s capital city is careening toward bankruptcy after it ignored warnings from county officials and approved ill-advised generous teacher raises, the state auditor announced Tuesday.
Read moreJudge Russell Hom was about to do something most jurists are taught to avoid.
Read moreThe city of Sacramento will pay $2.4 million to the children of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in 2018, under a settlement signed Wednesday by a federal judge.
Read moreTwo Sacramento police officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ backyard in 2018 won’t face criminal charges, federal investigators announced Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit Sacramento filed against Wells Fargo bank, accusing it of offering bad, misguided loans to minority homebuyers during the Great Recession, thereby denying the city tax revenue.
Read moreA federal judge approved a $5.2 million settlement for John Hernandez, an unarmed minor whom Sacramento police beat, Tasered and asphyxiated in a hospital, without body cameras.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man fatally shot by Sacramento police officers in 2018, reached a tentative partial settlement Tuesday with the city in its federal lawsuit, according to a court notice.
Read moreSettlement talks have broken down between the city of Sacramento and the family of Stephon Clark, which is suing the city for $20 million over the shooting death of the unarmed Clark by police in 2018.
Read moreThe Sacramento City Teachers Association claims in court that the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Trustees violated open-meeting laws by discussing its budget in closed session, leading to the firing of 150 teachers.
Read moreA California mother and daughter filed suit against a Sacramento doctor in state court on Tuesday, saying he artificially inseminated the mother with his own semen without permission and then performed gynecological exams on his own daughter unbeknownst to her for years.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that two Sacramento Police officers were justified in their use of force in the shooting death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ back yard a year ago.
Read moreTwo Sacramento police officers that chased Stephon Clark into his grandparents’ backyard and fatally shot the unarmed 22-year-old black man won’t face criminal charges, according to the local district attorney on Saturday.
Read moreOne day after being slapped with a $20 million lawsuit sparked by the killing of Stephon Clark in his family’s backyard, Sacramento officials were told Tuesday to revamp police use of force guidelines and conduct better investigations into police shootings.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by Sacramento police officers in his grandparents’ backyard in 2018, filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city Monday.
Read moreSacramento County Superior Court’s largest employee union, consisting of court reporters, clerks and other technical workers, began a strike across four court locations Tuesday.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, who was killed in a hailstorm of bullets fired by Sacramento Police Department officers, filed a $15 to $35 million wrongful death claim with the city this week – a precursor to the anticipated lawsuit.
Read moreA courthouse building boom is on the horizon in California after Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers preliminarily approved funding for 10 projects, including $460 million for a long-awaited project in Sacramento County.
Read moreAs Sacramento continues to be roiled by tension, particularly between the black
community and the city police department, a civil rights lawyer announced a settlement between the city and a black man who claimed to be the victimized by excessive force.