The Yolo County Grand Jury is extending its deadline to look for applicants to the Grand Jury Pool.  The Grand Jury plays a crucial role both in determining who gets indicted for crimes and also in te ...

In a county where many complain about disparate treatment in the Criminal Justice System between people who are white and of privilege and those who are minorities, the 8 month sentence that Brett Ped ...

The Vanguard has received word that the District Attorney's Office is re-opening the investigation into the shooting of Luis Gutierrez.  At this time, the Vanguard is uncertain what that entails.Last ...

To read the accounts in the paper, taken almost verbatim from the Yolo County District Attorney Office's press release, an 18-year-old Woodland gang member was sentenced to 55 years for a drive-by sho ...

Protesters in Yolo County marched on Thursday and Friday in the first two legs of a three day planned march in honor of the late union organizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez.The first stage of ...

Last August, the Vanguard reported that Yolo County District Attorney's Office Investigator Randy Skaggs had filed suit against Yolo County and the District Attorney's Office for among other things a ...

This past weekend, the Woodland Daily Democrat had a small story on Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig.  He had given a speech last week at the Woodland Chamber of Commerce laying out the fact ...

Last November, the Yolo County District Attorney's office released their report on the Shooting of Luis Gutierrez Navarro by Yolo County Sheriff's Deputies. That report concluded, “When considering al ...

Good piece by Marcos Breton this morning in the Sacramento Bee on James Marchbanks.  Mr. Marchbanks if you recall was cleared in late January of wrongdoing in a case in which three students in his dra ...

Marchers Argue That Justice in Yolo County Has Been Corrupted by Grant Seeking Process - Over 150 people gathered in Davis on Saturday morning and marched from the train station over to the Davis Farm ...

The challenge to the Gang Injunction was originally to begin today (March 9), however last week, Judge David Reed suddenly recused himself citing a number of cases that he was involved in as a defense ...

What started out as a modest story on the Vanguard has now been featured in stories across the world.  Yes you read that correctly.  On Monday February 8, 2010, the Vanguard wrote a story called "Yolo ...

California taxpayers, in a system that is so strapped they are releasing minor felons, will have to pay the bill for one more.  That was determined on Monday when Judge Thomas Warriner sentence Robert ...

Today Robert Ferguson will be sentenced to prison for among other things, stealing less than four dollars worth of cheese and also stealing a wallet from a lady at a convenience store.  While no one w ...

Federal Court Judge Morris England denied Defendants' Motion for Partial Summary Judgment in the portion of the Buzayan family's lawsuit that aims at the conduct of Davis Police Officers Pheng Ly and ...

On March 9, 2010, the challenge to the West Sacramento Gang Injunction will go to trial in Yolo County court.  That was determined on Tuesday as Yolo County Superior Court Judge David Reed denied the ...

While Yolo County Sheriff Prieto on Tuesday once again expressed skepticism about the girl's claims, telling the Sacramento Bee, "I doubt seriously whether anybody put a gun to this young girl's head. ...