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Heavy rains flood Sacramento-area roadways, trigger brief regional flood advisory
Heavy rain pounding the Sacramento area began to swamp local roads and triggered a regional flood advisory Friday afternoon with the California Highway Patrol reporting numerous calls of roadway flooding across the region. The advisory is in place until 5 p.m. The National Weather Service in Sacramento reported urban, roadway, and small stream flooding and forecast in low-lying areas and areas with poor drainage. “Rain will taper off by 5 p.m., but rain impacts may linger through the evening,” National Weather Service forecasters said in a social media post about 2:20 p.m. Forecasters anticipated wet, windy weather into Friday evening with more stormy weather ahead Sunday and into the work week. The National Weather Service announced a winter storm warning for the higher elevations until 10 a.m. Saturday, with up to a foot of snow above 6,000 feet, 18 inches at the highest Sierra peaks, and as much as 2 inches of snow down to 5,000 feet. Flooding was reported in a number of locations in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties in little more than an hour’s time after 1 p.m., during the heaviest of the rainfall, according to CHP traffic logs reviewed by The Sacramento Bee. Where
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Gambler wins $1.25M jackpot on Friday the 13th
(FOX40.COM) — Although Friday the 13th is a day often associated with bad lucky, the fortunes of one gambler at a Sacramento-area casino were anything but unlucky today. A guest at Thunder Valley Casino Resort won more than $1.25 million playing a penny slot machine Friday morning, the casino announced in a news release. The […]
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King’s Supermarket to Become Sacramento Food Center
King’s Supermarket, a neighborhood grocery store at 400 El Camino Ave. in Old North Sacramento, is changing hands. State records show that Mukhtar Yehya is taking over the store, which is listed under the new name Sacramento Food Center, with the transfer currently pending. Nothing has been announced about...
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74 years to life in prison for man who fired gun at Sacramento police officers
A judge on Friday sentenced a man to 74 years to life in prison for firing a gun at two Sacramento police officers while trying to evade arrest six years ago on an attempted murder warrant out of Yuba County. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Ernest Sawtelle sentenced Malcolm Xavier Wilcox Sr., 33, in the shooting, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Wilcox’s prior first-degree burglary conviction, a strike under California’s “Three Strikes” law, was considered in his sentencing. Last month, a jury found Wilcox guilty of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault on a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The pursuit that led to the shooting occurred April 11, 2020, when a Sacramento police officer tried to stop Wilcox, who was wanted on an attempted murder warrant from Yuba County. Wilcox sped away, prosecutors said. Wilcox then slammed on his brakes, got out of his vehicle and fired three shots at the pursuing officer with a loaded semiautomatic handgun, according to the District Attorney’s Office. A second officer arrived as Wilcox opened fire. Both officers returned fire, striking Wilcox. Prosecutors said he
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Suspected Lodi meth trafficker indicted in Sacramento federal court
A federal grand jury indicted a suspected Lodi methamphetamine supplier Thursday on four counts of distributing the drug in San Joaquin County, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Federal prosecutors allege that Abel Vargas Barrera, 52, of Lodi, sold 15 pounds of methamphetamine to a confidential source during four transactions in January, February, March and July. Barrera faces a minimum of 10 years and up to life in federal prison, along with a fine of up to $10 million, if convicted. Prosecutors allege that Barrera used a cellphone to coordinate drug deals, arrange meeting locations in the Lodi area and retrieve methamphetamine from a rural stash house before completing the transactions. The Drug Enforcement Administration led the investigation, with assistance from a California Department of Justice special operations unit and the Elk Grove Police Department.