LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has published the rules that will govern its legal marijuana economy in 2018, giving businesses and consumers a glimpse into the future. But there are important steps before legal recreational sales kick off on Jan. 1, and even more uncertainties about how the marketplace will function. Warning: Don’t count on … Continue reading
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 10:40 p.m. A Northern California county says it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones while wildfires ravage the state. Scott Alonso, communications director for Sonoma County, says the reports have come via calls … Continue reading
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — With the winds dying down, fire crews gained ground as they battled wildfires that have devastated California wine country and other parts of the state over the past week, and thousands of people got the all-clear to return home. While the danger from the deadliest, most destructive cluster of … Continue reading
A Northern California county says it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones while wildfires ravage the state. Scott Alonso, communications director for Sonoma County, says the reports have come via calls to a hotline the county set up for the missing. It is … Continue reading
PONOMA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 10:40 p.m. A Northern California county says it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones while wildfires ravage the state. Scott Alonso, communications director for Sonoma County, says the reports have come via calls … Continue reading
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Teams with cadaver dogs began a grim search Thursday for more dead in parts of California wine country devastated by wildfires, resorting in some cases to serial numbers stamped on medical implants to identify remains that turned up in the charred ruins. New deaths confirmed Thursday took the toll to 31, … Continue reading
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house is gone, with only brick chimneys and charred laundry machines to mark sites that were once family homes. The wildfires burned so hot that windows and tire … Continue reading
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local): 5:55 p.m. Hospitals say they have treated at least 185 people injured by wildfires that have rampaged through parts of Northern California since Sunday night. Most of the injured were taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, which treated about … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A massive new rock fall hit Yosemite National Park on Thursday, cracking with a thundering roar off the iconic El Capitan rock formation and sending huge plumes of white dust surging through the valley floor below. It was not immediately clear if there were new casualties, a day after another slab … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with sheriff’s deputies in a legal dispute stemming from 2010, when an innocent couple was shot while California deputies searched for a wanted man. The justices overturned an award of $4 million in damages to the couple and ordered a lower court to take another … Continue reading
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — How much is one vote worth in the California state Senate? A half-billion dollars, if it’s linked to a big tax hike to pay for overdue road repairs. The key vote to raise gas taxes and vehicle fees came late Thursday from Sen. Anthony Cannella, a little-known Republican and the only … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Associated Press foreign correspondent Sam Summerlin, who was the first to report the Korean War had ended and covered everything from Latin American revolutions to U.S. race riots during a long and distinguished career, has died. He was 89. He died Monday, February 27, at a care home in Carlsbad, … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twelve years ago, widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast helped compel federal engineers 2,000 miles away in California to remake a 1950s-era dam by constructing a massive steel-and-concrete gutter that would manage surging waters in times of torrential storms. The nearly $1 billion auxiliary spillway at Folsom Dam, … Continue reading
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — University of California, Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus last week when violent rioters caused chaos when they overtook a largely peaceful protest against a right-wing speaker. But that response by campus officers is being questioned amid widening political polarization and increasingly hostile demonstrators. Last week’s … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Immigrants in the United States illegally are not automatically eligible for asylum on the basis that they are former gang members who risk persecution if they return home, a federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday. Three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld federal immigration standards that exclude … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voter support for marijuana legalization reached a new high as California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, joining four other states and Washington, D.C., with similar laws. Voters in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas passed medical marijuana measures, pushing the number of states with such laws past two dozen. The California … Continue reading
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across the nation were among the mourners who packed a church in the California desert community of Lancaster on Thursday to memorialize a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant gunned down during a burglary investigation. A lone bagpiper played and a phalanx of deputies saluted as … Continue reading
INDIO, Calif. (AP) — A California gang member pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges in the killing of two Palm Springs police officers in what authorities called an ambush during a domestic dispute call. John Hernandez Felix entered the pleas in a Riverside County courtroom, where he appeared with shackles on his legs and … Continue reading
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Stanford police are investigating a report that a female student was raped by a male student inside his dorm, officials said Monday. The female student reported Friday’s rape to someone in a position of authority at the university, but she hasn’t provided a statement to police, said Bill Larson, a spokesman for the Stanford Department of … Continue reading
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) â A black man reportedly acting erratically at a strip mall in suburban San Diego was shot and killed by police after pulling an object from his pocket, pointing it at officers and assuming a “shooting stance,” authorities said. One of the officers tried and failed to subdue the unidentified man … Continue reading
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — When Betty Saffi moved to San Bernardino a year ago she was thrilled to slash her commute and slice $400 off her monthly rent. Now, the 57-year-old medical marketing saleswoman is yearning to leave. She said drugs are peddled in broad daylight outside her home, a naked woman sifts through … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown is offering intimate gubernatorial dinners to donors who help defeat a targeted November ballot measure, at a time when the governor will be deciding the fate of all new state legislation, the state Democratic Party says. Proposition 53 would require statewide voter approval on projects that would … Continue reading
SYDNEY (AP) — The beer ran out in some sections of the Olympic stadium, but most of the 61,247 spectators at Saturday’s, August 27, 2016, U.S. college football opener in Sydney between California and Hawaii appeared to be enjoying their American “gridiron” experience. The favored Pac 12 conference’s California Golden Bears from Berkeley across the … Continue reading
LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — A drone whirred to life in a cloud of dust, then shot hundreds of feet skyward for a bird’s-eye view of a vast tomato field in California’s Central Valley, the nation’s most productive farming region. Equipped with a state-of-the-art thermal camera, the drone crisscrossed the field, scanning it for cool, … Continue reading
GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A California wildfire spurred by strong gusts mushroomed in size and burned out of control Thursday in a remote coastal area west of Santa Barbara, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of campers, some homes and an oil refinery as it crept toward the ocean. Winds and rising temperatures across the dry … Continue reading
