Category: Northern California

4 Family Members, Including a Baby, Kidnapped in California; Suspect in Custody, Victims Still Missing

MERCED, Calif.—A man suspected of kidnapping a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old baby, in central California tried to kill himself Tuesday and is hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. The family is still missing. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that investigators identified Jesus Salgado, 48, after he used a victims’ ATM…


Sheriff: Baby Among 4 Family Members Kidnapped in California

MERCED, Calif.—Four members of a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old child, was kidnapped at gunpoint from their gas station in central California by a man who destroyed evidence to cover his tracks, authorities and a community organization said Tuesday. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said the suspect took the baby, Aroohi Dheri; the child’s mother,…


Police: 6 California Killings May Be Work of Serial Killer

STOCKTON, Calif.—Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California—all potentially at the hands of a serial killer—in crimes going back more than a year, police said. Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed, and shot to…


Police: Ballistics Tests Link Fatal Shootings of 6 Men to Potential Work of Serial Killer

STOCKTON, Calif.—Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California—all potentially at the hands of a serial killer—in crimes going back more than a year, police said. Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed, and shot to…


Police: California Serial Killer ‘On a Mission’ in Slayings

STOCKTON, Calif.—A California serial killer seems to be “on a mission” throughout the fatal shooting of six men and the wounding of one woman dating back to last year. Ballistics tests and some video evidence linked the crimes in Stockton and Oakland, about 70 miles apart, police said. “We don’t know what the motive is….


Police: 5 California Killings May Be Work of Serial Killer

STOCKTON, Calif.—A serial killer may have ambushed five men in central California separately in recent months, shooting them to death alone in the dark, and police are baffled as to why the victims were targeted. None of the men were robbed or beaten before their killings—which all took place within a radius of a few…


Killings of 5 Men in California Are Related, Police Say

STOCKTON, Calif.—Rewards totaling $85,000 have been offered for information leading to an arrest in five fatal shootings since July in Stockton, California, that investigators believe are related, police said. After reviewing surveillance footage, detectives have located an unidentified “person of interest” in the killings, Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden wrote on the department’s Facebook page…


2 Injured When Helicopter Crashes in Yard of California Home

FRESNO, Calif.—A helicopter spun out of control and crashed in the front yard of a home in central California, hurting a pilot and passenger, authorities said. The helicopter clipped the edge of the house and sheared off the top of a palm tree before crashing and coming to rest on its side in southeast Fresno…


Christians React to California Governor’s Pro-Abortion Billboards and New Abortion Laws

After Gov. Gavin Newsom placed pro-abortion billboards as part of his re-election campaign advertisements in states restricting abortions, Christians in California are responding. On Sept. 15, Newsom, a Democrat, announced several versions of billboard advertisements that would be going up across seven states. “Just launched billboards in 7 of the most restrictive anti-abortion states that…


Inside a San Francisco Drug Den

To anyone vaguely familiar with the colorful history of San Francisco in Victorian times, the mere mention of an “opium den” conjures up visions of dimly lit enclaves deep in the catacombs of Chinatown where hundreds of people languished about in self-induced euphoric stupors. Well, guess what, folks—the concept of the clandestine drug den operation…