By Rob Parsons/ADcrimebeat

Yia Yang set fire to delicate shreds of paper on Tuesday night, a Shaman religious mourning ritual at the homemade shrine placed on the spot where his younger brother was killed over the weekend. "I have no clue why this happened — he was just a...

Officers removed a 5-year-old girl from a Marysville apartment filled with more than 3 feet of filth, garbage and tarantulas, the Police Department said Saturday. "It was one of the worst situations I've ever seen," Sgt. Chris Sachs said. The mother,...

During a question at the Yuba County Academic Decathlon on Saturday about the significance of the Soviet satellite Sputnik II, blood gushed from the nose of Wheatland academic decathlete David Adrian. It wasn't the stress of competition that caused...

Sutter County prosecutors struck a plea deal on Friday with a Live Oak man after the 17-year-old girl he was accused of torturing and kidnapping refused to testify. Javier Alexander Ramos pleaded no contest in Sutter County Superior Court to a single...

A Yuba City woman with a lengthy criminal history was arrested again Wednesday after police said she robbed a Yuba City gas station with a box cutter. Alberta Manigo entered the AM/PM in the 800 block of Colusa Avenue around 10:30 p.m., grabbed some...

The US Justice Department is investigating a well-known organic cookie and cracker maker in Gridley, suspected of using illegal workers and lying about it. Federal authorities served search warrants on Thursday morning at Mary's Gone Crackers in the...

Investigators anticipate seeking criminal charges against the driver involved in Wednesday’s fatal wreck on Ostrom Road that claimed the life of a 4-year-old Plumas Lake boy. Ronald Edward Berry III died at Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville...

An Olivehurst man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting and killing a Colorado man in June during an argument over money. Joseph Aaron Martin accepted a deal with the Yuba County District Attorney's Office, pleading to second-degree murder in...

Authorities seized more than a pound of cocaine and a pound of methamphetamine during a raid on Tuesday in Gridley. Yuba-Sutter NET-5 agents were involved in the seizure in the 1100 block of Indiana Street, which Cmdr. Martin Horan said was part of a...

A convicted child molester tried — and failed — to rob a woman in a fast-food bathroom on Monday, police said, and then tried — and failed — to steal perfume from the Yuba City Walmart on Tuesday and was arrested. John Bruce Fleming, 41, was...