Assembly: No Using Welfare Cash Cards At Casinos
California lawmakers want to make it official -- welfare recipients cannot use their state-issued debit cards at casinos, strip clubs or similar business.
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California lawmakers want to make it official -- welfare recipients cannot use their state-issued debit cards at casinos, strip clubs or similar business.
The state Assembly has voted to strengthen the power of California cities to regulate medical marijuana.
Get ready for the Sacramento River to start rising as water officials try and make room for more rain and runoff.
Police are asking for help in identifying two armed suspect who stormed into an Elk Grove bank armed with guns and demanding money.
A former animal research technician was sentenced Friday to 44 years in prison for killing a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a wall of a research lab on what was to be her wedding day in 2009.
San Joaquin Sheriff's deputies say the bodies of two people including that of a child were found inside a car parked on a remote road this morning in Lathrop.
The end of a notorious kidnapping case involving a California woman who was abducted as a girl, repeatedly raped and hidden for 18 years has brought stiff sentences for her captors as well as horrifying new details about what Jaycee Dugard and her family endured.
Investigators believe alcohol may have played a role in a horrific crash early this morning that killed three people near Sloughhouse.
The public defender who handled the high-profile case of Phillip Garrido said she believes the confessed kidnapper of Jaycee Lee Dugard received an excessive sentence, but said he acknowledged his guilt in the case since the first time she met him.
A riverfront development project that has been in the planning stages for years is finally getting off the ground, Yolo County officials said.
A pair of scamming suspects got away with a small amount of cash but made a mistake that could lead to their capture, investigators said.
Democrats in the California Assembly on Thursday narrowly approved giving state regulators the power to reject rate hikes proposed by health insurers, voting after Republican lawmakers walked out of the chamber in protest.
A serial sex offender was ordered Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison after the California woman he kidnapped, raped and held captive for 18 years said he and his wife-accomplice had stolen her life.
One firefighter died, another was critically injured and a third suffered less serious burns while battling a fire in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood Thursday.
An elementary school was briefly locked down after armed suspects robbed a nearby motel at gunpoint Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
