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The explanation by lawyers for the city of Vallejo and two city police officers came in a court document filed last month seeking to dismiss parts of a lawsuit filed by the kidnapping victim
San Francisco prosecutors in May charged two deputies with assaulting Petrov.
The Senate voted 31-8 on Monday to repeal a rarely enforced law that makes it illegal to post a photo that shows how someone has voted.
Southbound Highway 99 was completely shut down at Florin Road due to heavy smoke conditions Monday after a load of hay caught fire.
A woman who brought her dogs to the store but didn't want to bring them inside and didn't want them to be left in the car made a smart choice, she thought: leave them inside the car while it was running and with the A/C on.
Crews are at the scene of a fire in rural Nevada County.
As videographer Mick Kalber with Paradise Helicopters flew over the 80-foot-deep crater on Wednesday, he shot what clearly looks like a smiley face.
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour has reportedly shut its doors suddenly on Monday.
There's an effort underway to open up a safehouse for victims of human trafficking in Solano County.
Police are investigating a shooting in south Sacramento on Monday morning.
Sheriff's officials say a 28-year-old man caught climbing a fence at a San Bernardino jail was trying to get in, not out.
Police are investigating a shooting that left a teenager dead in Fairfield late Sunday night.
Two men have been arrested for climbing the 525-foot tower at the end of the eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.
A surging wildfire that broke out over the weekend in California's Central Valley damaged homes and forced hundreds of evacuations, while a 10-day-old blaze on the Central Coast kept growing and causing problems for firefighters and displaced residents.
A controversial religious conference, drawing pastors from around the world to Sacramento this weekend, was met with protests outside the church doors.
