California City Hopes A Little Humor Might Slow Down Drivers
A Northern California city is using humor to get drivers to slow down and pedestrians to pay attention.
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A Northern California city is using humor to get drivers to slow down and pedestrians to pay attention.
California's $68 billion high-speed rail project is as much as a year behind schedule in buying the land needed to start construction, having purchased less than a quarter of the parcels for the first 29-mile stretch in the Central Valley, rail officials say.
Insurance departments in several states plan to lead an investigation into the recent data breach at Anthem.
Twenty-nine West Coast ports, including Sacramento and Stockton, will be shut down starting tomorrow and fears are growing over the economic fallout.
A Northern California man has been convicted of assaulting a federal ranger and a California Highway Patrolman during a shootout near a remote campground last summer.
A former state employee who is accused of bringing a loaded gun to work at the secretary of state's office last month is facing a misdemeanor charge.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who gained national attention as mayor of San Francisco for ordering then-illegal gay marriage licenses to be issued, said Wednesday that he will begin raising money to run for governor in 2018, a position he has long sought.
Target agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Northern California prosecutors saying that it charged higher prices than advertised, prosecutors said Tuesday.
CBS affiliate KFMB-TV says Kyle Kraska was wounded in a shooting outside his home in Scripps Ranch.
Police on Tuesday identified him as Aaron Lorta, a 29-year-old gang member. He remained hospitalized in stable condition and was interviewed by detectives, according to Officer Liliana Preciado. He could face charges including carjacking, she said.
Marilyn Hartman was arrested after reportedly stowing away on a flight from Minneapolis to Jacksonville.
A Central California man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after stomping a dog to death and tossing its body in the street in front of his home.
Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Langdell died Feb. 4 at a nursing home in Yuba City, according to his son, Ted Langdell. A tally maintained by the USS Arizona Reunion Association, for which Langdell had served as president, identified him as not only the oldest Arizona survivor, but the last surviving officer from the naval ship that lost 1,177 men - nearly four-fifths of its crew - when it was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941.
Los Angeles police say officers shot at a gunman who smashed up a car during a wild chase, carjacked another vehicle and tried to steal another before he was brought down.
California is proposing broad changes in the way it protects underground water sources from oil and gas operations, after finding 2,500 instances in which the state authorized oil and gas operations in protected water aquifers.
