Sacramento, CA | After two groups leave a Downtown night club, an argument ensues and a female is shot. Early Friday morning, two groups leaving a downtown club, per SacPD, got into an altercation in the parking garage off L st. between 10th and 11th Sts in Downtown Sacramento. When officers arrived they found that a female victim had been shot. She was transported to UC Davis via Paramedics. The suspect fled on foot and remains at large. See video coverage of this incident>> Follow @SacMav on Twitter for local breaking news.  

 Sacramento, CA | Early Tuesday morning, two South Sacramento families were awakened to find their homes ablaze. Sac Metro Fire and Cosumnes Fire Departments were called to Liscarney Way in the area of Vintage Park Dr. and Calvine Rd., for two homes burning. When firefighters arrived, they found two, two story homes with the second floor of both homes well involved with fire. All familiy members made it safely out of the homes after neighbors awakened them. Per Sac Metro Assistance Fire Chief Rice, both homes were severely damaged and the families would not be able to inhabit them. Red cross was called to assist the families. SacPress Contributing Writer and Photographer, Kati Garner, was

Sacramento, CA   The CAM Car Cruise and Show snaked through the streets and captivated downtown Sacramento Saturday evening. Saturday evening, car enthusiats from all over Californina gathered at the California Automomobile Muesuem (CAM) to stage for a downtown cruise and auto show that would cover several streets. If you were downtown Saturday evening after 5 P.M., you may have seen the very long line of vintage, classic and modern cars that snaked through the streets of downtown, from CAM all the way up to 28th and J. Streets were closed from J over to L, beginning at 22nd and over to 25th. Bands of different genres were playing on each street as folks enjoyed the wide variety of ca

Sacramento, CA Local transient fled the scene when his fire burned out of control Tuesday evening. Aprox 8:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, SacCity Fire was called to a vegetation fire between the Sacramento River and the bike path off Jiboom by the water treatment plant. On arrival, firefighters found a blaze burning upsloap from the beach area toward the bike path. The fire was brought under control quickly. Witnesses in the area saw a transient leaving the scene. He's described as a white male, mid 30's to to early 40's, aprox 5'8" and dark brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a small dirty red backpack. SacPD Officer Gunville and area Park Rangers had detained a couple of

 A life was lost this morning when a disabled vehicle was slammed into on Hwy 50 in Downtown Sacramento May 25, 2010, Sacramento, CA The call came in at 12:40 this morning for an accident that occurred on west bound HWY50 just before the North Bound I-5 interchange downtown. A Z28 broke down on the freeway just before the interchange and was slammed into by a second vehicle. The CHP officer on scene stated that they are not sure yet if the Z28 ran out of gas or was broken down. CHP also stated that there were no skid marks indicating that the driver of second vehicle probably didn't even see the white Z28 before slamming into it at full speed. The driver of the Z28 had to be extricated a

Whoa...I have to jump in on this one. Not aimed personally at all, but lack of understanding and knowledge of details brings comments like this. As an action media team, we monitor police and fire calls very closely and move when they do; so we not only hear, but also see our law enforcement and fire in action every day and all night. From our regular observation, "domestic violence [DV] and other violent crimes" calls are considered priority. Almost without exception, when we hear a DV call go out our violent situation, we hear and see multiple officers responding right away, code 3 (lights and siren). The very rare instances that they don't, is when the resources (thanks to budget cuts) are totally tapped and no officers are available to respond. Even then, the dispatchers attempt to "cross sector" (pull officers from other areas) or request mutual aid form other departments. In this protest situation, what you don't see in Brandon's photos (because the pics are near the end of the situation) is that the intersection at one point was filled with protesters. They had tents in the middle of the intersection as well as people on hospital and ambulance gurneys. Incidents like this require a large law enforcement response as they have a great potential to escalate very quickly. Law enforcement must show a large presence rapidly in an attempt to preempt any violent situations. I hope that sheds some light. Again...that is based on our experience and what we see and hear every single day and night.

Since the posting of the article, I able to spend some time talking with some folks and learned there really is a big deal in distinguishing between Midtown and Downtown. So, for clarification, while this event cruised through downtown, it was a Midtown event.

Ahsan, thanks for the clarification on Folsom Cheer, we were misinformed on that. Though you missed them (I know it's hard to be everywhere at once, that's why we use teamwork), there were some delegates from the swing dancers group. In the future, may I suggest you give our trade a little more professional courtesy and message me directly with your issues... that's what professionals tend to do.

Actually, it does, and has been blessed (if you will) by SacPress just like mine. But any way... did you notice how much danger our local families and firefighters were in on this incident? Thanks for the info and photos Bianca. By the way Isaac, great story on your police ride-a-long experience: http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/26083/A_Tragic_End_to_a_Former_SacPD_Officer

Awesome photos Kati and great coverage. I always enjoy your work.