Tuesday, June 18, 2013
YOLO COUNTY NEWS
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Victim in Costco parking lot is likely a suicide

A man who suffered a fatal gunshot wound in his vehicle Thursday at a Woodland shopping center appears to be a case of suicide, according to Woodland police. Sacramento County coroner’s officials identified the man Friday morning as Xingguo Shao, a 49-year-old Woodland resident. Sgt. Steve Guthrie said officers were dispatched at about 1:40 p.m. [...]

Search planned for missing Davis man

UPDATE: The search for Daniel Thompson has been postponed to 9 a.m. Saturday, starting at the Putah Creek Cafe in Winters and extending along Highway 128 toward Lake Berryessa, friends say. Friends of a missing Davis man, Daniel Brian Thompson, plan to conduct a search for him today along one of his favorite biking routes. [...]

Police seek suspect in bar fight

Davis police are seeking a man who punched a fellow bar patron early Thursday morning, leaving the victim hospitalized. Lt. Glenn Glasgow said officers responded at about 1:40 a.m. to reports of a verbal argument in progress in the 200 block of G Street. The confrontation was between one man and a group of four [...]

Bail posted in Davis beating case

The suspect in a Davis hate-crime assault is no longer in Yolo County Jail custody, less than a day after a Yolo Superior Court official increased his bail to $520,000. Clayton Daniel Garzon, 20, is due back in court April 12 for a pre-hearing conference. He has pleaded not guilty to battery, assault and criminal [...]

Big-rig crash closes I-5 near Woodland

Interstate 5 east of Woodland was shut down for several hours Wednesday night after two big rigs and a passenger vehicle collided on the Elkhorn Causeway, the California Highway Patrol reported. The collision occurred at about 5:30 p.m. when one rig rear-ended another, sending the front rig into the passenger car, Officer Bryan Konvalin said. [...]

Yolo DA seeks $500,000 bail in Davis hate crime case

Calling the defendant “an extreme danger to the community,” the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed a motion to increase the bail for Davis hate crime suspect Clayton Daniel Garzon and to speed up his arraignment date. Deputy District Attorney Garrett Hamilton says “changed circumstances” call for Garzon’s bail to be raised from [...]

Police: Assault may have been hate crime

A weekend assault that left a Davis man hospitalized is being investigated as a hate crime, Davis police said Monday. Lt. Glenn Glasgow said the victim, who is in his 30s, may have been targeted over his sexual orientation while attending a house party in the 300 block of I Street early Sunday morning. Police [...]

Pets of the week

Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Clementine (No. 114271), a 4-year-old spayed female brown tabby and white domestic medium-haired cat. Also hoping for a good home is Charlie (No. 113872), a 3-year-old neutered male gray and [...]

Pets of the Week

Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Oreo (No. 113069), a 4-year-old neutered male black and white short-haired Chihuahua. Also hoping for a good home is Polka Dot (No. 113166), a 6-month-old spayed female tabby domestic short-haired [...]

Youth soccer: Local youth soccer squads perform well

The Velocity, a U15 girls soccer team with players from Davis, Woodland and the surrounding areas, went undefeated in two weekend games. Playing in Vacaville on Saturday, the Velocity shut out the North Bay Elite, 3-0, with one goal coming from a long-range strike into the corner of the net by Josey Breeden off a [...]

News sources: Moroski headed to College of Idaho

UC Davis assistant football coach Mike Moroski was set to be announced as the new head football coach for the College of Idaho at 11 a.m. today, according to multiple Idaho news agencies. The 1979 UCD graduate has been on staff since 1988 with former head coach Bob Biggs, who retired after the 2012 season. [...]

Bob Dunning: Shedding light on the wayward UC logo

LET THERE BE LIGHT … contrary to popular opinion, our friends at the University of California did their homework before unveiling that snappy new logo that was eventually rejected in favor of the tried and true version from long ago … “I was asked about the new logo,” reports Tony at sbcglobal.net without a hint [...]

Pets of the week

Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Hastings (No. 112200), a 3-month-old neutered male tan and white short-haired Chihuahua mix. Also hoping for a good home is Gina (No. 112520), a 7-month-old spayed female white-and-lynx colored medium-haired [...]

Bob Dunning: Search for next coach will go beyond city limits

FOOTBALL FUTURE … now that the Aggies have completed yet another successful football season by winning the only game on the schedule that truly matters, it won’t be long before UC Davis names a new head coach to guide the program into the great gridiron battlefield known as the Big Sky Conference … In their [...]