Missing Hiker Found Dead In Yosemite
Search and rescue teams said the missing hiker who was reported missing on Thursday was found dead in his tent in Yosemite National Park over the weekend.
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Search and rescue teams said the missing hiker who was reported missing on Thursday was found dead in his tent in Yosemite National Park over the weekend.
A standoff between a man with a gun and deputies came to an end early Sunday morning when police entered an El Sobrante apartment and found the man dead.
At churches, shopping centers, schools, and local tea party meetings in California, fired-up volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights' milestones in school lessons.
The Obama administration has approved casino proposals from two California Native American tribes under a rarely-granted exception to the federal law that prohibits gaming on reservations established after 1988.
Investigators are searching for clues into the circumstances leading up to the death of a woman Thursday morning near Highway 99.
Authorities have identified the husband and wife in a Fairfield homicide-suicide.
Search crews are looking for a 69-year-old Washington man who disappeared while on a backpacking trip through Yosemite National Park.
Residents are returning to their homes as crews continue to make good progress against a wildfire that erupted on the main interstate between Southern California and Las Vegas.
The Food and Drug Administration is revising the nutrition facts label -- that breakdown of fats, salts, sugars and nutrients on packaging -- to give consumers more useful information and help fight the national obesity epidemic.
The name of a scientist who was killed in an explosion at a technology company in Menlo Park has been released.
Overall unemployment held steady throughout the nation in the latest jobs report, stirring fears about the economy, but the data reveals an additional hardship on the African American community.
A dispatcher has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from fellow deputies and even taking money meant for student tuition, according to authorities.
A man has been rushed to the hospital after being wounded in a Midtown shooting, according to authorities.
A single emergency dispatcher played a key role in organizing the response to a burning propane rail car that threatened thousands of Lincoln residents late last month.
