1,969-Pounder Takes First Prize At Bay Area Pumpkin-Growing Contest
The orange gourd that was the winner in a San Francisco Bay Area pumpkin growing contest tipped the scales at 1,969 pounds.
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The orange gourd that was the winner in a San Francisco Bay Area pumpkin growing contest tipped the scales at 1,969 pounds.
A baby giraffe born at a Central California zoo last month has died after running into a fence in an exhibit.
Growers with their astounding, orange gourds will gather Monday morning to try to break the current world record. That record is 2,323 pounds and set by a Swiss grower during a weigh-off in Germany last year.
Amid severe drought, the water board in this Southern California town imposed restrictions on Fallbrook Brewing Co., just as the tiny brewer doubled capacity to meet demand for its craft beers.
By law, the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on a government measure of inflation, which is being dragged down by lower prices at the pump.
The two-story house is less than a mile from the airport, in a semi-rural neighborhood surrounded by pine trees. The crash occurred about 5:40 p.m.
If you're going to run for president, Kanye West, you might as well listen to someone who's been there and done that.
A Northern California city's decision to raise the minimum age to purchase cigarettes is coming under fire from the tobacco industry.
California's public colleges and universities have taken seriously the task of preparing for the threat of mass shootings, although decisions about how to do so are made by individual campuses, administrators and public safety experts said.
Nine construction workers were injured — three critically — after a partial bridge collapse at a Southern California freeway on-ramp, authorities said.
The bill is written to allow cities the choice whether they will allow the cycles to serve alcohol or operate at all.
Seventy-one-year-old Hugo Pinell, one of the "San Quentin 6," was killed in August, days after he was released to the general prison population at a maximum security prison east of Sacramento.
Ernest "Chris" Chumbley pleaded guilty last month to a manslaughter charge that allowed him to avoid a murder trial. He has been in jail since the August 2013 shooting.
The handgun was reported stolen on Oct. 1 from the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood in San Francisco, police commander Toney Chaplin said.
The governor's endorsement Friday of the legislative package hammered out by lawmakers was expected because his office crafted many of the details.
