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San Francisco prosecutors on Wednesday dropped dozens more cases handled by a group of police officers accused of conducting illegal searches on suspects, saying investigators were looking into whether more could be implicated in the scandal.
A sprinkler system helped douse a two-alarm fire at a Sacramento warehouse just before noon.
Fun World Inc. is voluntarily recalling about 1,800 Halloween costumes that come with toy stethoscopes because the stethoscopes pose a potential choking hazard.
Two California farm supervisors charged in the 2008 heat-related death of a pregnant teen farmworker reached a plea deal Wednesday and were sentenced to community service and probation, angering farmworker advocates who had called for jail time.
An 8-month-old baby is in protective custody after flying out of a car being driven at a high rate of speed
Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies were forced to tackle a naked suspect after a taser failed to take the man down.
A new study finds that there are far fewer great white sharks living off California's coast than scientists had expected.
The movie 'Major League' is about a Cleveland baseball team and its owner trying to move south to a city with a new stadium by putting together a roster of no-names and losing. It happened in Hollywood, but is it now happening in real life in Sacramento?
Police say a thief using climbing gear rappelled into a San Francisco exotic car dealership and stole television celebrity chef Guy Fieri's $200,000-plus Lamborghini sports car.
A guitar instructor at a musical instrument store took on a masked burglar in a bloody brawl and delayed the suspect long enough for police to catch up with him.
It began three months ago when she tried to redeem two gift cards at The Broiler in downtown Sacramento.
School districts across California are planning teacher layoffs, while pensions are getting bigger for a growing number of retired school officials. The list of retired teachers and administrators collecting six-figure pensions has grown by 70% in the last year and a half.
Republican lawmakers in the state Assembly refused to budge Tuesday on Gov. Jerry Brown's call for a special election to maintain recent tax hikes, prolonging uncertainty over how California will close its $26.6 billion deficit.
School officials haven't had any luck tracking down the creator of a Facebook page dedicated to insulting students at one local school, and authorities say they can't do anything about it until threats are made.
New call logs from a California pipeline explosion that killed eight people show that utility crews were scrambling to stop gas pressure surges and feared they would cause a "major, major problem."
