Three arrested after fight at Vallejo High
Times-Herald staff report @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Three Vallejo High School students were arrested on suspicion of battery Monday afternoon following an after-school fight, police said.The students, whose names and ages were not released, are suspected of punching and kicking a 16-year-old male Vallejo High student in the
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Regional job forecast 7th weakest nationally
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Solano County’s employment outlook is one of the nation’s weakest, but it’s improving, according to a recently released report.The area ranks seventh-weakest nationally for expected job growth for the second quarter of 2010 — among only 11 of 201 areas surveyed with a
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Local Sureno gangsters sentenced for car thefts
Times-Herald staff report @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Two admitted Vallejo gang members have been sentenced for stealing cars in furtherance of their gang activities, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office reported. Sentencing took place last week.Braulio Antonio Gonzalez, aka “Thumper,” an admitted Vallejo Sureno gang
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Father-son duo, 2 Benicians accused in ‘09 strangulation
By Sarah Rohrs @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Four people, including a father and son and two Benicia residents, have been arrested in the strangulation of a Martinez man whose body was found along a rural road outside Crockett late last year.Timothy Danny Delosreyes, 36, of Vallejo; his son, Timothy Danny Delosreyes
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Suspect in Vallejo homicide went on lam after DUI arrest
By Jessica A. York @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
A key suspect in Vallejo’s first slaying of 2010 was arrested for drunk driving less than two hours after he allegedly gunned down a man outside a liquor store, police said Monday.Ross Gabriel Ellis, 23, arrested Friday near Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Man, 33, shot four times
By Sarah Rohrs @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
A lone gunman shot a 33-year-old Vallejo man multiple times in an apartment complex in the 3300 block of Tennessee at about 7 p.m. Monday as he was coming home with groceries from the nearby Walgreens, police and witnesses said.
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Marina Vista cries foul over public nuisance law
By Jessica A. York @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
A revamped city law seeking to crack down on repeated police responses to the same properties is rankling at least one Vallejo apartment complex partnership and low-income tenants’ advocate.Other private citizens are cheering the effort, city staff members said.
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4 schools in Vallejo on list of 188 worst
By Shauntel Lowe @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Four of Vallejo’s public schools — including two destined for closure — were among 188 preliminarily identified Monday as the state’s persistently lowest-performing 5 percent.Hogan and Vallejo high schools and Franklin and Vallejo middle schools received the designation,
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Cold case suspect in court
By Brian Hamlin @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
More than 15 years ago, 21-year-old Pedro Ramos was found shot to death along a lonely stretch of Allendale Road in rural Vacaville.
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Dixon, SID pass joint resolution
By Kimberly K. Fu @ March 9, 2010 # Comments Off
Water and budgeting were the hot topics of Monday’s special meeting of the Dixon City Council and the Solano Irrigation District.
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