Rowena Shaddox

(FOX40.COM) — Rick Redding Jr., a longtime teacher at Hiram Johnson High School, says incidents of students bringing weapons and drugs on campus are happening more often than not and he’d like to see the school and the Sacramento City Unified School District do more to prevent it. Redding said he is a graduate of Hiram Johnson and that he has been a teacher there since 2006. His mother and father, aunts, uncles and cousins all graduated from there, as well. “We have a very vested interest in wh…

(FOX40.COM) -- Brothers and avid outdoorsmen Taylen and Wyatt Brooks enjoyed hunting and fishing together almost daily. While shed antler hunting near Skid Road in Kelsey on Saturday, a pastime they’ve always done together around this time of the year, they would fight for their lives together when a healthy 90-pound male mountain lion attacked them. The family shared details of the brothers’ deadly encounter with the lion. Taylen and Wyatt, 21 and 18 years old, first spotted the mountain lion…

(FOX40.COM) — January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is working to arrest sex traffickers, especially those who are trafficking minors. A FOX40 News team was invited on an exclusive ride-along with detectives during a night of specialized enforcement in early January to see firsthand how sex trafficking continues […]

(FOX40.COM) -- Sixteen-year-old Mariah Thorson is remembering her dad, who died last Thursday night as he tried to help a driver stopped on the side of Interstate 205 in Tracy. Thursday marks just one week since this tragic accident happened, and the family is still trying to come to terms with it. “Losing my dad was losing a big part of me… He’s someone I had my whole life,” Thorson said. But the daughter says her father is a hero because he died trying to help someone else. “He had the biggest…

(KTXL) — In the spirit of Black History Month, four top cops of Sacramento-area law enforcement came together to give thanks to those who helped them get there and inspire the next generation of la…

(KTXL) — An employee from Safeway in Fair Oaks said the conditions at their store are similar to the Howe Avenue location that allegedly has routine theft. The employee contacted FOX40 and sa…

(KTXL) — As the Sacramento Police Department continues to investigate the death of a 3-year-old boy that occurred at Motel 6 near 30th and N streets Tuesday morning, the mother of the child who die…

(KTXL) — Workers and customers at the Safeway on Howe Avenue said people casually going into the store to steal has been an ongoing problem for several months. “It’s bad. It’s bad,” Marvin Williams…

SACRAMENTO, Calif (KTXL) — Animal advocates marched Sunday morning, protesting what they described as a downward spiral of care provided by the Front Street Animal Shelter. “You could only ha…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Merchants along Fruitridge Road and Stockton Boulevard say crime is affecting their businesses and that workers and customers don’t feel safe. “I’ve ha…