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Democrat Alex Padilla was elected California's next top elections official, as the outgoing state senator beat first-time candidate Pete Peterson in a race that was too close to call until Wednesday morning.
Police say that two men have been arrested after a burglary at an Elk Grove Home Depot Tuesday afternoon.
Incumbent Tom Torlakson has defeated a challenge from first-time candidate Marshall Tuck in the race for California superintendent of public instruction.
An elderly woman was killed after she was hit by a car along Sunrise Boulevard Tuesday night.
Marijuana activists who have longed for decades to end America's drug war pocketed more major victories Tuesday, with Oregon and the nation's capital approving recreational pot use.
Berkeley voters became the first in the country to approve taxing sodas to curb consumption, after costly campaigns by the soda industry helped defeat similar taxes in more than 30 other cities and states in recent years.
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Republicans capitalized on Democrats' recent corruption scandals and successfully blocked them from regaining two-thirds control of the state Senate and picked up seats in the Assembly.
The following is early results on Sacramento's Measure L, otherwise known as the "strong mayor" initiative.
As controller, the termed-out Chiang was responsible for overseeing government audits and disbursements of state funds when California and its cities were in fiscal peril.
The measure on Tuesday's ballot to levy the two-cents an ounce tax on soft drinks fell short of the two-thirds support needed to pass.
The measure asked voters to approve or reject a law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that would allow the North Fork Rancheria Band of Mono Indians to build a Las Vegas-style casino with up to 2,000 slot machines nearly 40 miles from its reservation. The casino was proposed about 30 miles from Fresno and 25 miles from a casino operated by the Table Mountain Rancheria tribe.
