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- Local students, teachers join large protest
- Sphere of Influence meeting veers off-topic
- A helping hand to homebuyers
- Local Boy Scouts to celebrate
- A long way from a corner peach stand
- CLUB NEWS
WITH VIDEO | A funeral was held on the Monterey Trail High School campus before school began on March 4.
Attendees at a public outreach meeting last week were only scheduled to discuss one portion of Elk Grove?s proposed Sphere of Influence (SOI) expansion.
A Sacramento preschool teacher, a Sacramento County collections agent, and a massage therapist from New Zealand might seem like an unlikely group, but all have been among those to receive special homebuyer loans from Elk Grove.
A breakfast honoring Elk Grove businessman and community leader Jack Williams and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America will be held at 7 a.m., March 25 at the Holiday Inn Express in Elk Grove. There will also be a report to the community.
Elk Grove area residents can?t seem to get enough fresh produce.
Widowed Persons The Sacramento chapter of the Widowed Persons Association will be sponsoring a newcomers? buffet and social Monday, March 15 at 5:30 p.m. in the private dining room at the Plaza Hof Brau, corner of El Camino and Watt avenues.
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Regional News |
- Sacramento man jailed for allegedly terrorizing ex-girlfriend
- Ask Sacto911: Man pleaded no contest in Gold River slaying
- Sac sheriff says arrested on-call deputy resigns from force
- Sacramento drunken killer, road-rage slayer due parole hearings
- Sac sheriff: Woman arrested in imprisonment, torture of man
- Sacramento postal worker indicted for worker's comp fraud
A Sacramento man sits in the Sacramento jail on $75,000 bail after being accused of stalking and assaulting his former girlfriend, according to jail records and a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department crime summary released this week.
As the victim was sitting in her vehicle at the intersection of Coloma Road and Sunrise Boulevard, Neil Robinson, 28, allegedly jumped into the backseat on Feb. 26, the report states.
He allegedly told the woman to drive him home or he would kill himself. However, the women drove to a nearby parking lot where there were people around and asked for help.
Deputies were called and Robinson was arrested, the summary states.
The victim told deputies that she was in the process of getting a restraining order against Robinson and had sought help at Women Escaping a Violent Environment, or WEAVE. She said she feared Robinson would harm her.
She said she dated Robinson for about a year and had spent the last six months trying to break up, according to the summary.
Robinson is being held on suspicion of four felony and one misdemeanor count, according to jail records.
Q: What happened in the case of someone being stabbed to death last year on Prospect Hill Drive in Gold River? - Anonymous, Sacramento
A: Daniel Ortega pleaded no contest to a charge of voluntary manslaughter on Nov. 4 in the stabbing death of Martin Ramirez, according to court records and Bee reports.
He received a sentence of one year in jail and five years probation, court records show.
Ortega and Ramirez argued at a residence in the 1100 block of Prospect Hill Drive early in the morning of April 11, investigators said.
Ortega then stabbed Ramirez, investigators said.
Eric Maurice Cephus, an on-call sheriff's deputy, was arraigned in Placer Superior Court on one felony count each of lewd acts on a child under 14 and transporting a person for a sex act.
The on-call Sacramento County sheriff's deputy accused of picking up a 13-year-old girl he met on duty and having sex with her in a Lincoln hotel is no longer employed by the Sheriff's Department, authorities said today.
Sheriff John McGinnness confirmed that Eric Cephus, who remains in custody in Placer County, resigned from the Sheriff's Department on Friday.
Lincoln police arrested the 39-year-old Cephus on March 2 at his San Jose home. He was arraigned two days later on one felony count each of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14 and transporting a person for a sex act.
Cephus was working a contract shift for a north Sacramento County parks district - meaning he was in uniform and driving a marked patrol car, but his work was paid for by the parks district - the night of Feb. 26 when he allegedly met his victim.
After his shift ended, Cephus and the girl allegedly drove to a Lincoln hotel and had sex. Police have not said whether the sex was forced or whether Cephus paid the victim.
A man who killed an 18-year-old while he was drunk and a man who shot to death another motorist in an act of road rage are among Sacramento area convicts who have paroles hearings scheduled next week.
They are:
-March 18, Kenneth Roy Stark, 55, Mule Creek State Prison.
A Yolo County Superior Court judge sentenced Stark to life in prison for the June 13, 1985 beating death of a homeless man, The Bee reported.
The body of Ronald Eugene Meyers, 42, was dumped in a Yolo Bypass field.
-March 18, Ralph Kendall Blasingame IV, 34, California State Prison, Solano.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Blasingame to 19-year-to-life in prison for fatally shooting an 18-year-old stranger in a drunken act of bravado, The Bee reported.
Blasingame killed Sean Michael Renfro with a single bullet fired from 100 feet at a car leaving a river party late at night on Oct. 16, 1993.
According to testimony, someone had shouted an obscenity and Blasingame, who was standing on the road, mistakenly thought the passing Honda was filled with people he and his friends had tangled with earlier that night. He claimed to have fired wildly into the night, never knowing he hit anything.
-March 18, Thongsanh Phongsavat, 34, California State Prison, Solano.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Phongsavat to 18-year-to-life in prison on April 26, 1996 for shooting and killing a motorist in a driving dispute on Interstate 80, The Bee reported.
Killed during the rush hour as he exited Interstate 80 at Northgate Boulevard on Oct. 10, 1995, was Brit C. Bahn, 24. Bahn and his brother, Chad, 25, were driving from Woodland to a store to return a television.
Bahn was hit in the temple with a single rifle shot fired from a Honda in which Phongsavat was riding as a passenger.
The incident began on I-5 when the Honda was tailgating the truck, and the occupants became embroiled in an exchange of gestures and racial slurs.
-March 18, John Lee Hart, 52, California State Prison, Solano.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Hart to life in prison for shooting to death Charles Mojeske, 22, of Sacramento at his home in 4200 block of May Street, The Bee reported.
The July 27, 1991 attack also resulted in injuries to two of the victim's brothers, neither of whom was hurt seriously.
Hart shot Mojeske when he opened the door to his house. Testimony showed that Mojeske earlier had been involved in a fight with Hart's 15-year-old brother.
-March 19, James Elmer Harmon, 69, California State Prison, Solano.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Harmon to life plus 17 years in April 1987 for a kidnap-robbery with a couple of accomplices that netted them $3,000, The Bee reported.
Harmon hit the victim with a pipe in the September 1986 crime.
Harmon had an extensive criminal history going back to 1959. The deputy district attorney who prosecuted him for the kidnap-robbery was the son of the deputy district attorney who won a conviction of Harmon in 1960.
If you want to give your opinion of an inmate's suitability for parole, you may mail a letter to:
Martin Hoshino, executive director
Board of Parole Hearings
1515 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
For more information on the Board of Parole Hearings, go to:
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Divisions_Boards/BOPH/
A Sacramento woman accused of beating a man and holding him against his will was being held in lieu of $1 million bail tonight at the Sacramento County Jail.
Kathlyne Alycia Smart, 46, of Sacramento, was arrested late Friday by Sacramento Sheriff's deputies on suspicion of torture with intent to cause cruel or extreme pain, false imprisonment and assault with a deadly weapon with the likelihood of causing great bodily harm after deputies were called to an apartment in the 5100 block of Andrea Boulevard, said Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Curran.
Neighbors told deputies they heard sounds of screaming coming from the apartment about 10:50 p.m. Friday, Curran said.
Deputies arrived to find a 41-year-old man who said he was being held against his will. It was unknown how long the man had been held.
Curran said the man had been beaten and burned and was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for his injuries and released.
Curran did not know the extent of the pair's relationship, but said the two were acquainted.
Smart is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Sacramento County Superior Court.
A federal grand jury has indicted a 46-year-old Sacramento postal worker for allegedly illegally claiming $278,000 in workers' compensation benefits, according to the U.S. attorney Benjamin Wagner.
The 15-count indictment issued earlier this week alleges that Nicki Lee Buxmann falsely claimed to have been injured on the job and then denied she had outside employment and income, Wagner said in a news release.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurel Loomis Rimon, who is prosecuting the case, the indictment alleges that Buxmann defrauded the Postal Service by claiming that she had injured her back, neck, and shoulder while on the job and then denying that she had outside employment and income while receiving benefits.
The indictment alleges that Buxmann owned and operated TNT Takeover/MMA Boxing and Fitness 180 businesses in Elk Grove and Roseville, Rimon said.
Buxmann is also charged with separate counts of theft of U.S. property and false statements or fraud to obtain employee's compensation, Rimon said.
The case is the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General, Wagner said.
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National News |
- Women fliers honored 65 years after war
- Air traffic jams in New York likely to jump
- Chief Justice slams State of the Union 'pep rally'
- Police: 'Jihad Jane' attempted suicide in '05
- N.Y. State Police lose second chief in 2 weeks
- Obama pledges to continue Haiti aid, says situation 'remains dire'
Some 65 years after their service, a group of former civilian women pilots whose unheralded work was key to helping the U.S. effort in World War II were honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Flying in and out of New York -- which is usually no picnic -- is likely to get worse this spring and summer. A new nationwide rule on tarmac delays, possible exemptions to that rule and a runway closure may create a perfect storm for air travelers when bad weather is added to the mix.
Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. Supreme Court spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at this year's State of the Union address "very troubling."
Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report filed at the time.
New York state's top police official announced Wednesday he was quitting, the second acting superintendent to step down in as many weeks.
President Obama met Wednesday with Haitian President Rene Preval to discuss relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti.
