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A Northern California man's threats to harm college football players because they beat his favored team epitomized "fandom spiraled out of control," something that can't be ignored in the age of mass shootings, a federal judge said Tuesday as he handed down a sentence of one year and a day over the 2018 threats.
In Northern California, the easing of winds allowed Pacific Gas & Electric to begin restoring power after the largest of five safety shutoffs this year.
California prison officials did a poor job requiring inmates and staff to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and even "perplexingly loosened" their policy just as cases were spiking, the state's inspector general said Monday.
Theme park operators threaten to sue the state of California over guidelines they say could keep them closed at least until next summer.
California's process for imposing the death penalty "is now, and always has been, infected by racism," Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday in a brief filed with the state Supreme Court.
California's financially battered restaurants filed government claims Monday to recover more than $100 million in fees for liquor and health permits and tourism charges that they say were assessed even though their businesses were shuttered or only partially operating under long-running coronavirus orders.
Large swaths of California were without power Monday as utilities sought to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires while the fire-weary state was buffeted by powerful winds and dangerously dry weather conditions.
The Governor's Office of Emergency Services said it has activated strike teams as they are forecasting Sunday night's fire weather conditions as the most dangerous they've seen since 2017.
At least 350,000 debit cards filled with money for unemployment benefits in California have been frozen because of suspected fraud, state officials said, revealing how prevalent the problem has become now that the state has paid more than $105 billion in benefits since March.
As predicted, gusty winds moved into parts of Northern California as another power shutoff was rolled out to prevent sparking wires from igniting new wildfires.
Less than two weeks before Election Day, a new poll finds California voters split over a measure that would change how commercial and industrial properties are taxed.
California's amusement parks have been pining to reopen for months, hoping to bring back thousands of workers sent home in March when the coronavirus pandemic forced them to shut down.
A state appeals court ordered San Quentin State Prison to immediately cut its inmate population by half Tuesday, which would require transferring or releasing about 1,700 inmates, citing the state's inability to manage a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the prison.
A Central California private school has been ordered to pay $15,000 for defying a judge's order to close classrooms and stop in-person teaching.
California's Democratic attorney general asked a judge Tuesday to make the state Republican Party hand over the names and contact information of every person who used one of the GOP's unofficial ballot drop boxes to vote.
