Lawmakers target looters in wake of arrests in Los Angeles-area burn zones
California lawmakers are proposing tougher penalties on looting and other opportunistic crimes during disasters after more ...
Crime and Public Safety
Karen Whaley, 64, was charged with elder abuse and battery with serious bodily injury against her 87-year-old mother. The ...
Suspect in deaths of Northern California mother and her son captured in Mexico
After a weeks-long search, a man suspected of killing a Northern California mother and son was arrested in Rosarito, Mexico, ...
2 million acres of land in California designated as ‘high’ or ‘very high’ fire danger areas
In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...
Danes make cheeky bid for California as Trump seeks Greenland
The light-hearted petition follows US President Donald Trump’s talk about taking control of Greenland from Denmark.
The flavor enhancer MSG inspires a San Francisco play
Monosodium glutamate is at the center of a new show at the San Francisco Playhouse, “ Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play .” ...
"Do your worst": Here's what Karen Read said in her post-Super Bowl TV interview
The latest development with the Read case was that the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Read, a Mansfield woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, Braintree native ...
Map Shows California Cities Getting Hit Hardest by Huge Rainstorm
Several cities in Southern California are expecting heavy bouts of rain Wednesday through Friday, with the flash flood risk ...
Trump’s halt of US law banning business bribes abroad raises specter of a ‘Wild West’ of dealmaking
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or FCPA, prohibits people or companies operating in the U.S. from giving money or gifts to foreign officials to win or retain deals in those countries. The ...