California Man Gets 6 Years For 8th DUI Conviction
A Northern California man convicted of his eighth drunk driving charge has been sentenced to a maximum term of six years in prison.
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A Northern California man convicted of his eighth drunk driving charge has been sentenced to a maximum term of six years in prison.
For decades, California's criminal justice policies ensured that murderers and others sentenced to life, with the possibility of parole, could expect to die in prison. And most of the time, they did.
An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't identified any common causes connecting the cases.
State Sen. Ron Calderon surrendered to authorities days after being charged with corruption, and he's facing new calls for him to resign.
The law they sought to repeal guarantees students in grades K-12 the right to use school facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms and to participate in the sex-segregated activities that correspond with their expressed genders instead of their school records.
In this scam, a person claiming to be from the sheriff's department tells people they didn't show up for jury duty, and that callers have to pay a fine to clear up an outstanding warrant.
While security has tightened at the U.S. border, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas.
Federal transportation officials have extended the deadline that the California High-Speed Rail Authority has to start spending more state money on the project.
A small number of children in California have been afflicted with polio-like illnesses that led to paralysis in one or more limbs.
Police in San Diego say a boy brandishing some sort of hand gun robbed an ice cream truck driver.
A pilot has been injured after a single-engine plane lost engine power and made a hard landing in central California.
His grandfather sits on California's death row, and his father avoided a death sentence by pleading guilty to killing two Oregon girls.
"She bullied her way through life," said Sandra Parriott, a lifelong resident of Cedarville and owner of two downtown markets. "But I would never think she would start blowing people away in a meeting."
Obama wants the Interior and Agriculture Departments, the two agencies tasked with fighting wildfires, to be able to draw funds from a special disaster account when the cost of tackling fires exceeds their annual budget.
The state insurance commissioner called the 16-year scheme one of the largest workers' compensation fraud cases in the history of California's Department of Insurance.
