Roseville Police officers have arrested four suspected burglars in a west Roseville neighborhood, thanks to neighbors reporting suspicious activity, a police spokeswoman said today. At 10:41 a.m. Monday, residents reported a silver Dodge Neon with four occupants slowly cruising back and forth along Steinbeck Drive, occasionally stopping while three males got out of the vehicle, walked up to houses and looked around, said Dee Dee Gunther of the Roseville Police Department.
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Convicted Stalker Moves Back Into Neighborhood
A convicted stalker is moving back into his old neighborhood, four years after his neighbors accused him of threats and harassment. Some neighbors said they are on edge, but others are indifferent to the return of James O’Rourke, who lived in the neighborhood of 40th Street and D Street in Sacramento for more than 30 years.
Twin Rivers will close at least six schools
The Twin Rivers Unified School District school board voted 5-2 on Tuesday night to close at least four schools by June 30, 2011 and at least two more the following year. Trustees also voted to create four neighborhood task forces in the Grant area, North Highlands, Rio Linda and Foothill that will recommend which schools should close and which should be converted into kindergarten-through-eighth-grade schools
Home foreclosures bringing blight; cities want owners more accountable
Sherry Pyatt, with grandson Taray Thomas peering out the window, keeps an increasingly worried eye on her neighborhood. “I’m not feeling very safe,” she said. In Sacramento’s Oak Park, where five vacant homes burned in the last four months, resident Sherry Pyatt is among those who keep a close watch on the neighborhood.
Grab a pen and start counting birds
Chirping birds and the squawks of Canada geese connect us to the outdoors. You can learn more about our feathered friends during the 13th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count today through Monday. Coordinated through the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, expert and novice bird watchers count birds during the weekend and send their tallies to a Web site
Appetizers: Midtown eatery facing closure
Owners of a popular midtown breakfast spot are considering legal action against their landlords after receiving notice that their lease isn’t being renewed. The Cornerstone, located at the corner of J and 24th streets, will have to close as early as this month, according to a news release from the restaurant
More crime watch groups spring up in Sacramento County
RANDALL BENTON rbenton@sacbee.com Roger Berkenpas, communications director for the West Fair Oaks Neighborhood Watch Association, says about four new watch groups have joined the association recently. For 14 years, his group has, among other things, helped sheriff’s investigators capture burglary suspects
Ask Sacto911: 1988 fatal sniper attack near Blue Diamond unsolved
Q: What happened in the case of a man who was killed by a sniper near Blue Diamond while on a walk in the late 1980s? – Anonymous, Sacramento A: The slaying of Stephen McDonald on May 13, 1988 by a sniper’s bullet remains unsolved. McDonald, 32, was killed as he walked with more than 100 co-workers outside their midtown Sacramento employer, Blue Diamond Growers, according to Bee reports.
Rocklin man sentenced to 4-year prison term for laser pointing
By Hudson Sangree hsangree@sacbee.com A judge sentenced a Rocklin man to four years in prison Friday for aiming a laser beam at a Placer County sheriff’s helicopter. According to a news release by the Placer County District Attorney’s office: Jamie Allen Downie, 35, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of discharging a laser at an aircraft. Downie pointed the laser at the helicopter as it flew over his neighborhood on two occasions last summer
North Sacramento ‘cat lady’ beaten, in critical condition
A 50-year-old North Sacramento woman, described by neighbors as the “cat lady,” was in critical condition Sunday night at UC Davis Medical Center after being severely beaten, police said. The woman’s 35-year-old former boyfriend, who was at her home in the 2300 block of Boxwood Drive when police arrived, was being detained for questioning, said Sgt.
