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Humboldt County Sheriff's officials say 45-year-old Kimberly Felder stripped her daughter naked and shoved sand into her mouth before a witness tried to stop the attack at a secluded beach Friday.
After approving a $125 billion budget last week, California lawmakers are turning their attention to other matters for the last three months of the annual legislative session.
The lower deck of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was shut down for hours after officers responding to a crash shot and wounded a motorist who drove at them.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says a fight between two men turned deadly when one of them ran over the other with a car.
Police are investigating a homicide on the 1600 block of Bay Meadows in Modesto. Police were called to the are a little after 7pm tonight on the report of a disturbance and found a woman and two children killed inside the home.
uneral services have been set for three U.S. soldiers from Fort Campbell who were killed in Afghanistan. The Defense Department says Sgt. Eric M. Houck, 25, of Baltimore, Maryland; Sgt. William M. Bays, 29, of Barstow, California; and Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge, 22, of Youngsville, North Carolina, died of gunshot wounds on June 10 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. They were part of the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, located on the Kentucky-Tennessee line.
Officials at Yosemite National Park say they will reopen on Sunday morning a road that was damaged in a rockslide.
Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie "Animal House," has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63.
Prosecutors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have vowed to try him a second time. A suburban Philadelphia judge declared a mistrial on Saturday after a jury insisted it was hopelessly deadlocked on charges the 79-year-old TV star drugged and molested Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. Cosby says the encounter was consensual.
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was upgraded from "critical" to "serious condition" Saturday and continued to show signs of improvement after he was wounded in a shooting at a Republican baseball practice outside Washington.
Sacramento Area Cooling Centers The Sacramento area weather is forecast to be extremely hot this week, with temperatures reaching well over 100 degrees. These faith-based, government, and non-profit organizations have opened their doors as cooling centers so people can get in out of the heat. In addition to the list below, call 2-1-1 to find your nearest cooling center and to find other cool places to go such as libraries and community centers.*
Three produce company workers have been arrested in the theft of up to $300,000 worth of avocados, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
Firefighters were gaining control over a brush fire that forced the evacuation of a handful of homes in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Authorities are investigating after a suspect allegedly assaulted a California Highway Patrol officer Saturday morning.
The nation's oldest U.S. senator looks like she's sticking around.
