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A massive timber fire burning in the heavily wooded Santa Cruz Mountains continued to ravage homes in Boulder Creek and nearby areas early Friday with firefighters staging at least three rescues of trapped residents.
If Healdsburg needed a reminder the Walbridge Fire was burning just west of town, it came falling from the sky all afternoon.
Fire and public safety officials on Friday urged people to stay away from coastal roads in San Mateo County in order to keep them clear for emergency vehicles and wildfire evacuees.
Police in Berkeley on Friday confirmed the arrest of a suspect in connection with the slaying of 19-year-old UC Berkeley student Seth Smith in June.
Mark Davis sat alone on a metal bench at the 35-yard line inside Allegiant Stadium a little more than an hour before the Las Vegas Raiders took the field Friday.
Contra Costa County Fire Crews made quick work of a house fire in Antioch Friday afternoon.
Sheriff deputies and a CHP officer fatally shot a gunman in a shopping center parking lot in the central California coast town of Nipomo Friday as he fired at them with a handgun.
The deadly LNU Lightning Complex of wildfires grew to 219,067 acres in Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties by early Friday, burning homes west of Healdsburg overnight and forcing new evacuations in the Forestville and Lake Sonoma areas
As thousands of firefighters battled one of worse wildfire outbreaks in state history from the shores of Lake Berryessa to the Santa Cruz Mountains, the National Weather Service issued a new dry lightning warning Friday that sent a chill throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coastal communities in San Mateo County are urging potential visitors to stay away this weekend, as crews continue to battle the massive CZU August Lighting Complex Fire.
San Jose Firefighters responded to a two-alarm grass fire Friday afternoon.
Actress Lori Loughlin was sentenced to two months in federal prison on Friday for her role in the college admissions scandal, a fate she and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, initially tried to avoid.
A former California police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, who became known as the Golden State Killer, told victims Friday he was "truly sorry" before he was sentenced to life imprisonment for a decade-long string of rapes and murders across a wide swath of California.
A small army of firefighters watched the marine layer of moist air slowly burn off Friday morning, preparing for another tough day battling with SCU Lightning Fire Complex blazes that have burned 229,968 acres and forced more than 20,000 residents from their homes in a five-county area.
San Francisco Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting earlier that morning in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.
