Ben Deci

SACRAMENTO

It starts with buying a specific firearm. Each handgun is submitted on its own form. Each purchase of a shotgun or shotguns gets submitted on a different form.

Once the purchase is made, the store’s salesman will ask for …

STOCKTON -

A 53-year-old Stockton man is free tonight after shooting and killing a neighbor.

Although they had only been there about a week, the residents of the home at 440 Flora Street in Stockton, and the man who was …

SACRAMENTO -

The people of Sacramento are definitely eating it up, sporting the purple everywhere you look.

“If they take the Kings out of Sacramento, what’s that say about the NBA,” said Amir Daliri, a Kings fan.

He was tied …

OAKLAND -

It was hard to look around the sunny Oakland Coliseum Monday and not think that fans there had the right idea.

It was near ideal conditions for a ball game as the Oakland A’s faced the Seattle Mariners …

SACRAMENTO

Seth Mullen and his boy Phoenix have been puttering around Haggin Oaks for years. 

“We’ve been coming here since he was 18 months. He’s six now. So that’s six years of memories,” Mullen said. 

Still, Mullen says for the …

LAKE TAHOE

In a year that’s been as dry as 2013 has been so far, skiers are liking what they are seeing. Even if they are seeing it through goggles thick with water droplets.

Squaw Valley staff made the call …

SACRAMENTO

The IRS figures 600,000 H&R Block customers will get caught in a tax return delay. They are students, or the parents of students, who filed Form 8863.

They could have to wait as much as eight weeks longer for …

BLUE CANYON–

This story may ring a bell — in more ways than one.

It’s the tale of a roadside ring found in December by Douglas Benedetti. He went searching for the silver heirloom after a man told him it …

BLUE CANYON-

One minute, drivers on I-80 were getting hit with hail. In the next minute, it was clear sailing and the chain control signs were being turned to their backside Wednesday.

James Long is driving his truck up to …

SACRAMENTO-

It’s a pledge every nurse takes: the Florence Nightingale pledge, to elevate the standard of their profession and to devote themselves to the welfare of those committed to their care.

Then there’s last weeks 911 call from Glenwood Gardens …