Gov. Brown Cancels Plan For New Housing In San Quentin
Gov. Jerry Brown has canceled plans for a new $356 million death row complex at San Quentin State Prison.
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Gov. Jerry Brown has canceled plans for a new $356 million death row complex at San Quentin State Prison.
Lawyers for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan claim in new legal papers that he was manipulated by a seductive woman in a mind-control plot to kill Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. But the lawyers say Sirhan's bullets did not kill Kennedy.
Divers are searching the Sacramento River for an 84-year-old man who jumped into the water to try and save his wife who fell from their boat near the public docks in Walnut Grove.
Charlie Sheen's tour is taking a softer approach when it arrives in San Francisco later this week, with a donation planned for a Giants fan severely beaten during the Los Angeles Dodgers' home opener.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido have pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years.
A Santa Cruz County man was found living with the badly decomposed body of a woman after neighbors called to complain of an unusual smell coming from inside the man's studio apartment, police said Wednesday.
A simple checklist that parents fill out in the waiting room may help doctors someday screen for warning signs of autism as early as a baby's first birthday.
A family of six escaped a burning home after a Good Samaritan saw flames and stopped to alert them.
Officials in the small California farming town of Isleton are facing legal scrutiny over their licensing of a medical marijuana growing operation to raise revenue for the struggling city.
Atlanta pitching coach Roger McDowell apologized Wednesday in response to a fan's complaint that McDowell spewed homophobic comments, made crude sexual gestures and threatened to knock out his teeth with a bat before the Braves played the San Francisco Giants over the weekend.
A 15-year-old girl says she was expelled from an evangelical Christian high school after telling friends on her Facebook page she was bisexual.
Recent attempts to ban streetside panhandling in a number of cities have been thrown out in court, but Vacaville is hoping a new campaign will achieve different results.
Transportation officials say metering lights on Sacramento on-ramps may be down for days while a software glitch is corrected.
