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A Chico man who police say faked his own suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge to avoid jail for child sexual assault and pornography charges has been arrested in Florida.
A California state employee applying for a new position got a copy of the interview questions emailed to her personal account ahead of the interview, then landed the job, and later lied about the email during a State Audit investigation.
A California Department of Fish and Wildlife senior manager fabricated his past management experience in order to be promoted and ended up getting paid $234,717 as a result of the fabrication and now he's required under state law to pay the full amount back due to his dishonesty.
A California judge has ordered a couple to pay nearly $600,000 for uprooting a 180-year-old oak tree and causing other damage to a protected property.
The audit found a Caltrans employee commuted to work by commercial plane and had taxpayers pick up her tab.
The victim says the owner of the other dog took off running as she laid fractured on the ground.
A longtime administrator in the Valley State Prison (VSP) used his state-issued computer during work hours to access thousands of YouTube videos unrelated to his work.
A Department of State Hospitals administrator traveled to his Sacramento-based job from elsewhere in California and the state wasted $47,800 in state funds during a 15-month period from November 2016 until January 2018.
The California State Auditor investigated more than 800 calls and inquiries to its whistleblower hotline from July 1, 2018-December 31, 2018 and found a number of instances of taxpayer money being misused.
A Caltrans manager based in San Diego was appointed to a more senior position in Sacramento but never moved, and instead charged the state to travel back and forth for more than a year.
More than three-quarters of middle and high schools in California start before 8:30 am and at least one lawmaker wants to change that.
New DNA evidence has determined the woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 was murdered by a man who killed himself in jail a year later after confessing to three other murders in California, investigators said Tuesday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to end the sales tax on tampons and diapers and use revenue from legal marijuana sales toward enhancing child care programs.
A dietary supplement is being recalled after the FDA found the pills contain an erectile dysfunction drug that could pose a threat to customers taking prescriptions for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease.
A 95-year-old former soldier died aboard a so-called Honor Flight carrying World War II veterans home to San Diego after an all-expenses-paid weekend trip to Washington, D.C.
