Alisa Becerra

LINCOLN–

The doors opened and parents went forward like lottery winners, putting their names in for a chance to nab one of 130 spots open for kindergarten at Lincoln Crossing Elementary School.

For some, this camp out started Friday night. …

DAVIS-

It’s 6 a.m., dark outside and 35 students run onto Toomey Field at UC Davis.

They are ROTC cadets: Reserve Officers in Training Corps, and physical training is just beginning. These cadets will spend the next hour or so …

SACRAMENTO-

They know where all the bodies are buried, and now thanks to new technology you will too, quite easily.

East Lawn Memorial Parks hosts  a rich history of Sacramento’s most colorful and influential families. But that translates into 100,000 …

SACRAMENTO–

It’s an act that makes the Grinch look charitable — promising to help families in need, then vanishing with no intention of making good on that promise.

That’s what happened at the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center, when 26 …

SACRAMENTO-
Millions of pieces of mail will move through the US Postal Service Monday, on the busiest shipping day of the year.

9 million pieces of mail nationwide, 2.4 million processed here in Sacramento.

Greg Tababrez is sending a package …

CITRUS HEIGHTS-

Mariah Clifton says her dad’s love for off-roading may have led to his death.

She says her dad probably saw a spot where he could see the river and stopped, then the storm came through, and he got …

SACRAMENTO COUNTY-

A 14-inch water main break, sent thousands of gallons of water a minute pumping through the earth; spewing into the sky from a now-covered four feet wide hole in the ground at McClellan Air Park.

It started as …

SACRAMENTO-

Sacramento teacher Tiffany Ballard needed money for worms.

That’s right worms. hundreds of them.

Mrs. Ballard is a seventh grade teacher at Sam Brannan elementary, her class has been learning about recycling, and she felt it was time for …

FOLSOM-

Twelve years ago the Folsom Veterans Day Parade started modestly. A veteran new to Folsom, saw there was no

parade, and picked up an American Flag and waved it  down the street. That one move, started a a much …

Fourteen  people ran out of a burning Elk Grove home this morning just before three. Four elderly family members were just visiting.
Luckily for all of them, a barking dog at a neighbors home woke them up. none of them …