On Friday, the trial of four Yolo County residents charged with assault and accused of being, at the very least, sympathizers of the Taliban, wrapped up and went to the jury.  A Yolo County jury will ...

Back in 2009, according to the Sacramento Bee's report, Richard Harden "chased the woman down at the Home Depot on Folsom Boulevard  and bashed her three times with a hammer, sending her to the hospit ...

Judge Timothy Fall on Friday agreed to reduce the bail for UC Davis student Nicholas Benson, from one million dollars to 100,000 dollars, in order to enable the family to seek mental health support fo ...

The Yolo County Coroner's Office Needs to Sever Ties with Forensic Medical Group - I don't use this space very often to praise the actions of public officials.  There are a number of reasons for that ...

While the Judicial Watch covers mainly Yolo County, our goals extend more regionally, and certainly a matter of grave concern are the actions that occurred last weekend in Elk Grove.What we know for s ...

We spend a lot of time talking about the district attorneys on these pages, but just as important are the judges.  Most of the time, the judges are sitting back and making their legal rulings.  Howeve ...

Yesterday the Vanguard learned of a California Watch/ Frontline investigation that discovered that a man who had performed potentially hundreds of autopsies for Yolo County had his qualifications to p ...

A report issued on Monday from a project called California Watch, from the Center for Investigative Reporting calls into question some autopsies that may have been performed for Yolo County by forensi ...

Friday marked the third time in two weeks that the Third District Court of Appeal (3rd DCA) has overturned the ruling of a Yolo County judge.  This time it was in a civil matter brought forward by Art ...

A Yolo County jury has acquitted Heather Duffy of charges that she attempted to kidnap a toddler from outside his family's home in Woodland last spring in an effort to replace two children who had bee ...

Can we imagine what might have happened had someone not pulled out their video camera that they had just purchased to film the beating of Rodney King back in 1991?  It's not difficult to imagine, Mr. ...

Victim Request For Release Opposed by District Attorney - A key question that we must grapple with in society is when has someone paid their dues.  In a fairly balanced account of the proceedings, Lau ...

For the second time in ten days, the Third District Court of Appeals threw out a conviction in Yolo County, this time due to juror misconduct as a juror performed a home experiment on a crucial piece ...

UC Davis Student Nicholas Allen Benson pled not guilty to making terrorist threats, among four charges, as well as denying enhancements he faces after being arrested in Davis on Friday night.According ...

by Natasha Minsker - When a hot button cools off with voters, it is worth a second look, especially after elected officials took office in the New Year.Take the recent nail-biter contest for attorney ...

It is something that you do not see everyday in Yolo County, but the Niazi trial contains all of the elements of a full-blown spy novel, except without the spies.  What was a commonplace assault with ...