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The federal probe began in 2011 when Baca's jail guards discovered an inmate with a contraband cellphone was acting as an FBI mole to record jail beatings and report what he witnessed.
The ruling came as opponents renewed their legal challenges across the country, asking judges in three states to block the executive order that targets people from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Artists say high rents in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California have driven them to lease warehouses in industrial areas not zoned for residential and entertainment uses.
The embattled fire chief of Oakland has announced plans to retire amid questions of her department's failure to inspect a warehouse illegally used as a housing and entertainment space where 36 people died in December.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered the release of a man who spent more than three decades in prison for murder after prosecutors conceded he did not get a fair trial.
The United States has announced charges against two Russian security services officers and two hackers, accusing them of a mega data breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts.
A woman in a car was shot dead by police east of San Francisco after the driver shifted into reverse and rammed a police vehicle, injuring two detectives.
Authorities say an armed man hid in the back of a central California discount store until closing time and then robbed the store clerk of cash before getting away.
Authorities say a 63-year-old woman who disappeared more than two years ago and whose skeletal remains were found at a San Francisco Bay Area recreation area last month was murdered.
Accounts including Forbes, the NHL Network and the Atlanta Police Department were sending out the same message condemning the Netherlands and Germany.
Retired Adm. Bruce Loveless, 53, and the others were accused of accepting the services of prostitutes and other bribes from Leonard Francis in exchange for classified information that helped his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
The United Auburn Indian Community owns the Thunder Valley Casino Resort. In 2011, the tribe banned Stroud's clients from the casino and other tribal facilities for fixed periods of time after they publicly accused the tribal council of financial mismanagement and said tribal elections were rigged.
A Northern California mother who left a 10-month-old baby unsupervised in a hotel bathtub while she had sex in another room has entered a plea.
California police shot and killed a shirtless, knife-wielding man whom they had forced out of his locked minivan with a firehose after witnessing him pouring gasoline on a rag and lighting a cigarette, authorities said.
The Legislative Analyst's Office reported this year that more than half of California college students graduate with student loan debt, with debt for students from UCs and CSUs averaging nearly $20,000.
