Placerville (El Dorado, California)

Nearly 20 years after abducting an 11-year-old girl from her street in South Lake Tahoe, Phillip and Nancy Garrido were sentenced for their crimes. Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, and held captive for 18 years before she was discovered. The...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Yale University lab technician was sentenced to 44-years in prison in the murder of graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a wall of a research lab on what was to be her wedding day in 2009. Raymond Clark IIIwas accused of...

At times, the voice is young and terrified -– an 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped during the last week of school , raped for years and kept in line under threat of pain. At times, the voice is brave and......

A plan to have controversial grave markers remade and replaced by California inmates will be discussed by County Officials next week. Tuesday, May 24th, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors will hear more details and discuss a proposal to have the...

Day one of the two week road closure has left Highway 50 eerily quiet. A one mile section of the rock wall separating the road from the plunging canyon below is in bad shape, patched in some place by sandbags. The signs west of Echo Summit say 'OPEN',...

The couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her captive for 18 years have confessed to police about the crime, an attorney for one of the defendants said Monday. Phillip and Nancy Garrido are charged with......

Accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido is expected to plead guilty to snatching an 11-year-old schoolgirl from her South Lake Tahoe area street, holding her captive for nearly two decades and fathering her two daughters, according to an attorney...

At least one person was injured at a shooting at an elementary school in Placerville, Calif., on Wednesday morning, authorities said. The shooting victim was a school employee, and all students were safe, according to an official with the Placerville........

The principal of a school in the Northern California city of Placerville was fatally shot on campus Wednesday, and authorities have arrested a school janitor in the case. No students at Louisiana Schnell School were hurt, according to an official......

A janitor who allegedly shot and killed the principal of a Northern California elementary school was being held Thursday without bail, authorities said. John Harold Luebbers, 44, who worked at Louisiana Schnell Elementary School in Placerville, was...

An El Dorado County Judge has agreed to consider a motion by the Sacramento Bee and other media outlets to release documents related to the Phillip and Nancy Garrido case. Judge Douglas Phimister agreed to consider releasing grand jury transcripts and...

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is investigating a string of burglaries. There have been 18 in the greater Placerville area within the last two months. Deputies said most of the burglaries occurred in rural areas at homes where there is limited...