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California has upheld several criminal justice changes, endorsing recent efforts to ease mass incarceration by reducing penalties and allowing for earlier releases. Voters also appeared likely to maintain the state's current cash bail system as a majority opted for the status quo on both criminal justice ballot measures.
A ballot measure restoring the right to vote for felons on parole has been decisively passed by California voters.
A measure to refine and expand California's sweeping digital privacy law was leading Tuesday night with 57% of more than nine million votes counted and 55 percent of precincts reporting.
A proposition that would keep alive first-of-its-kind stem cell research program in the East Bay was leading after the polls closed on Tuesday.
Many Bay Area state legislators managed to keep their jobs as votes were tallied Tuesday night.
Joe Biden won California and its 55 electoral votes Tuesday, tightening the Democrats' grip on the nation's most populous state.
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California voters have rejected a ballot measure to require a doctor or highly trained nurse at each of California's 600 dialysis clinics.
An investigation of street narcotics sales led to the arrest of a suspect last week, and the seizure of drugs valued at more than $100,000 including over 15 pounds of methamphetamine, San Francisco police said Tuesday.
A man has been hospitalized Tuesday night with what San Francisco police call a "serious" wound and a possible suspect has been detained after a shooting in the Tenderloin, authorities said.
An Antioch man and a Stockton man were charged as suspects Monday in what Antioch police describe as a "brutal sexual assault" in the early morning of Oct. 17.
Bay Area health officials are strongly recommending that people going away for the holidays quarantine for 14 days, upon their return.
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In an Election Day visit to the Bay Area, Gov. Gavin Newsom thanked poll workers and played basketball Tuesday at the Golden State Warriors' downtown Oakland facility, which is also a polling place this year.
At least one Bay Area hospital prepared for a possible surge in cardiac patients as Election Day returns start flowing in Tuesday night.
