Los Angeles NAACP Chapter President Resigns Over Move To Honor Donald Sterling
Leon Jenkins said he is stepping down because of "negative exposure" after Sterling controversy.
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Leon Jenkins said he is stepping down because of "negative exposure" after Sterling controversy.
From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations by their students.
With summer approaching and California's snowpack measuring at a fraction of normal, state water managers are set to order farmers and other big water users to limit the water they take from rivers for the first time since 1977.
A bill that would strike the traditional definition of marriage from California law is advancing through the Legislature after the U.S. and state supreme courts allowed same-sex unions to resume.
With summer approaching state water managers say California's snowpack is at 18 percent of average for the date.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is on a winning streak.
Authorities have identified the pilot whose body was recovered days after his plane crashed into San Francisco Bay following a midair collision with another small plane.
Police in the San Francisco Bay Area say a woman escaped from her kidnapper by crashing her vehicle into another vehicle on a freeway.
State water managers were expecting more bad news Thursday as they take the season's last measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a key source of water in drought-stricken California.
His lawyers say new evidence shows the terrorism training camp to be closed during Hayat's alleged training period. They also allege his trial attorney was too inexperienced to properly defend him.
California's population grew nearly 1 percent in 2013 to exceed 38.3 million, with the highest growth rate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cities in California's Central Valley dominate the American Lung Association's annual rankings of the nation's worst air pollution, though traditional dirty-air leader Los Angeles still tops key categories.
A San Francisco Bay Area golf coach who was set to receive an award from the PGA before he was arrested and accused of molesting three boys tried to hire a hit man to have them killed, prosecutors said.
With eight months left in office, Gov. Rick Perry is away from Texas almost as much as he's home - hitting the road hard to tout his state as America's best place to do business.
The sheriff's office identified the driver as 38-year-old James Hall of Olivehurst, Calif. He reportedly told deputies he was using a noncommercial GPS. He was cited for violating the posted truck route.
