Police were called out to an apartment complex on Pocket Road in Sacramento after Aquelin Talamantes, 29, of Davis, was seen with a 4-year-old boy, but not her 5-year-old daughter, Tatianna Garcia. Wh ...

Now that the family of Halema Buzayan has dropped its case against the city of Davis, it seems fair game that I can release a few nuggets that I have been holding onto for some time.  I was actually l ...

EMQ FamiliesFirst announced on Wednesday it would be reducing its Davis campus program and administrative staff by 77 positions effective July 31, 2013.  The Residential Treatment Program is open whil ...

When the allegations against EMQ FamiliesFirst originally came to light, including the off-campus rape of an 11-year-old and persistent problems with the young residents going AWOL into the community ...

Closure is a word that, more and more, I think should not exist.  The more I live and observe, the more I recognize in human psychology there is no such thing as closure - at some point, people just m ...

In June of 2005, a witness reported to the Davis Police Department what they believed to be a hit and run accident in the parking lot of Safeway in South Davis.  The witness did not report seeing cont ...

Last week, the state agency reviewing the FamiliesFirst situation in Davis, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), completed its investigation, in the wake of reports of a sexual assault ...

On Monday, the Davis Police announced that a 16-year-old male Davis resident was taken into custody, and is being held on charges for the double murder of Oliver Northrup and Claudia Maupin. There are ...

On Monday, the Davis Police announced that a 16-year-old male Davis resident was taken into custody, and is being held on charges for the double murder. There are no other suspects in this case. The i ...

Last week, upon hearing about the gang rape of an 11-year-old and the other myriad of problems at the local facility - we called for heads to roll.  The California Department of Social Services has no ...

In a scathing report, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) completed its investigation of FamiliesFirst, a group home that is located on Fifth Street in Davis, in the wake of reports of ...

The CEO of FamiliesFirst, Darrell Evora, spoke out on Saturday, telling news crews, "I'm outraged...  So I understand the public being outraged. We'd never want that to happen to a child in our care." ...

The immediate incident is shocking enough - an 11-year-old girl held down and raped by two boys ages 13 and 14.  The individuals involved were all residents at the FamiliesFirst treatment facility on ...

The Vanguard has learned that on Wednesday, June 5, a 13-year-old male and a 14-year-old male were taken into temporary custody by the Davis Police Department after an 11-year-old female reported that ...

On May 3, Davis resident Eli Davis recounted his April 19, 2013, encounter with a Davis police officer who demanded identification as he mowed his lawn in front of his west Davis home where the 68-yea ...

Last week, longtime Davis resident Eli Davis wrote a letter to the local paper, claiming, at his home near Lake Blvd, he was mowing his front lawn a few weeks ago in the middle of the afternoon when h ...

On Friday came the story of Eli Davis, who lives somewhere between Village Homes and Lake Blvd. in West Davis.  In a letter published on Friday in the Davis Enterprise, he claimed he was mowing his fr ...

Letter Writer Claims Racial Prejudice in Police Encounter - In the movie The Hurricane, they flash to a scene where the police pull over the protagonist Rubin "the Hurricane" Carter in a vehicle stop ...

It has been a week since the community learned of the brutal stabbing deaths of 87-year-old former defense attorney Oliver Northup and his wife Claudia Maupin, 76, in South Davis, and authorities say ...