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Authorities have identified the 60-year-old pilot from suburban Sacramento who died in a small airplane crash near Lake Tahoe. The Placer County sheriff says Kenneth Whittall-Scherfee of Carmichael was killed in Tuesday morning's crash south of Truckee that also claimed the life of one passenger and critically injured another.
A man in the country illegally charged with killing a pair of California deputies cheered upon receiving his guilty verdict and vowed to kill again as he was escorted from the courtroom. A Sacramento jury on Friday convicted Luis Bracamontes in the 2014 slayings of Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Danny Oliver and Placer sheriff's detective Michael Davis Jr. He was also found guilty of attempted murder, carjacking, weapons violations and other other crimes.
Thousands of firefighters tried Sunday to shield coastal communities from one of the biggest wildfires in California history while a funeral procession rolled past burn-scarred hillsides in honor of one of their colleagues who was killed battling the flames. Crews cleared brush and dug containment lines above hillside neighborhoods in Santa Barbara County, taking advantage of slightly calmer winds a day after gusts fanned a flare-up that prompted more evacuations.
There are seven candidates vying for the District 1 Congressional seat. The district includes all of Butte County and part of Glenn County, as well as all of Tehama, Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas and Nevada counties, and part of Placer County.