As a man chivalrously tried to retrieve a woman’s shoes from Huntington State Beach at closing time, a Huntington Beach police officer shouted “Stop resisting!” before he was even near him, then strangled him, bursting blood vessels in both eyes, the man claims in a federal complaint against the city and the officer.
Read moreFinding the state had violated previous settlement agreements, a federal judge issued two orders Friday requiring California to revise its prison practices, including increased group activity time for inmates and less time confined to their cells.
Read moreCalifornia’s Department of Water Resources dealt a major blow to Gov. Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnel project Friday, all but ensuring that the controversial effort to divert water from Northern California to the south will not be approved before Brown leaves office at the end of the year.
Read moreOutgoing California Governor Jerry Brown filed 13 Superior Court judgeships Friday. Appointees include the first Korean-American judge in Alameda County Superior Court, the first Sikh judge ever named to the Sacramento County Superior Court and the first Filipino-American woman to serve as a superior court judge in the Bay Area.
Read moreE-retail giant Amazon will stop selling force-fed foie gras in California, settling an action by three counties to enforce the Golden State’s ban on the contentious delicacy.
Read moreMudslides closed major roadways in parts of Southern California burned by a massive wildfire last month, including the Pacific Coast Highway which was swamped with mud and rocks Thursday.
Read moreA tiger cub that appeared in a popular – and controversy-courting – YouTube star’s video is at the center of an investigation by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, which charged a man Wednesday on suspicion of mistreating the animal.
Read moreA homeowner says her house exploded and burned, hospitalizing her, because Pacific Gas and Electric let its natural gas line deteriorate and gas accumulate in the crawl space, in Santa Clara County Court.
Read moreA defense attorney for the Mongol Nation motorcycle club told a California jury Tuesday that federal prosecutors had not presented any evidence that the club ever violated racketeering laws or engaged in a conspiracy — indeed, he said, it could not be convicted of conspiracy because an entity cannot conspire with itself.
Read moreThe California Highway Patrol refused to investigate a state trooper who allegedly stalked a Brentwood woman, sending her unwelcome sexual advances and a photo of his genitals, she said in a federal complaint Tuesday.
Read moreCalling on California to sever ties with the private prison industry, a state lawmaker wants to nix contracts with for-profit prisons and ban the state’s public pension funds from ever investing in them again.
Read moreHoping the second time’s a charm, a San Francisco Democrat again introduced a bill in the California Assembly mandating only zero-emissions passenger vehicles in the Golden State by 2040.
Read moreThe Mongol Nation motorcycle club is a gang “built around crime,” a federal prosecutor told an Orange County jury Monday during arguments at the end of an unusual, five-week trial. That’s the reason it’s there. That’s what it does,” the prosecutor said.
Read moreA California trade organization has sued the state, claiming its Private Attorneys General Act unconstitutionally allows private attorneys to abuse the law for personal gain.
Read moreWeeks after a 28-year-old former U.S. Marine killed 12 people inside a crowded California bar with a semi-automatic pistol, a state lawmaker is hoping to stem future gun violence through taxes.
Read moreLooking to greenlight a housing boom through a cash infusion for downtrodden local planning agencies, California lawmakers are promising a flurry of bills to fix the state’s housing crisis.
Read moreJim’s Honey Farm claims in court that negligence by Southern California Edison sparked the December 2017 Thomas Fire, which destroyed all of its 3,840 hives and equipment: 120 million bees.
Read moreThe mother of a 19-year-old black man who was stabbed to death in the sleepy college town of Arcata claims the city’s police department bungled her son’s murder investigation and repeatedly lied to cover up its incompetence.
Read moreIn unveiling an updated technology plan for the courts, the California Judicial Council said Friday it has learned from the tech debacles of the past.
Read moreWildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday.
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