Former Firefighter Who Admitted Setting California Fires Out Of Boredom Gets 5 Years
Benjamin Cunha, 33, of Placerville was sentenced to five years on prison on arson charges after admitting to setting at least 30 wildland fires in 2006 and 2007.
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Benjamin Cunha, 33, of Placerville was sentenced to five years on prison on arson charges after admitting to setting at least 30 wildland fires in 2006 and 2007.
The fleeing suspect jumped fences and ended up in an alley where an officer caught up to him. The officer and suspect ended up in a struggle with each other.
The bill would require Southern California Gas Co. to test all wells at its Aliso Canyon facility near Los Angeles before it can resume storing gas.
An estimated 266 million gallons of wastewater were discharged from the ponds' unauthorized expansion to groundwater, the board said.
The South Dakota Legislature last week became the first to pass a bill that would require transgender children and teenagers to use the school facilities that correspond to their "chromosomes and anatomy" at birth.
Medical records often were missing, misfiled, incomplete or illegible. Medicine often was not provided as needed. Essential supplies and basic equipment were missing from many examination rooms.
The report says California had 17.3 million registered voters in January. Of them, 43 percent were registered as Democrats and 27 percent as Republicans.
A federal appeals court has upheld two California laws dealing with prison inmates' eligibility for parole, one that set conditions on parole hearings and another that gave the governor authority to block parole.
In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitewashed," and that an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.
The FBI owes it to the victims of the San Bernardino terror attack to do what it can to gain access to the locked cellphone used by one of the gunmen, FBI Director James Comey said Sunday night.
Concerns about running cattle on federal land are reaching livestock owners in California.
The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California's central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system.
San Francisco police are searching for the gun of a federal agent who lost the weapon after he left it on top of his car and drove off.
Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California.
Los Angeles County authorities say two teenage brothers were killed and another person was injured in a two-vehicle collision in Palmdale.
