School Bans Harry Potter Books After Citing Risk Of 'Conjuring Evil Spirits'
Harry Potter books have been expelled from a private Catholic school in Tennessee after the school's pastor said they could cause a reader to conjure "evil spirits."
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Harry Potter books have been expelled from a private Catholic school in Tennessee after the school's pastor said they could cause a reader to conjure "evil spirits."
Police in San Joaquin County say they have arrested a man suspected in the stabbing and killing of a Sikh man who was on nighttime walk at a Central Valley park.
About 1,000 Kaiser Permanente workers and their supporters in Oakland Monday demanded changes from their employer, a union spokesperson said.
The tight-knit diving communities in the Bay Area and Central Coast are bracing for news about the dozens of divers presumed dead after a deadly fire aboard a dive charter ship off the coast of Santa Barbara early Monday morning.
A homeless couple in Oakland appears to be getting back on their feet slowly, thanks in part to a new crowdfunding site called Supportful.
A fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast early Monday, leaving 25 people dead and nine still missing after the gutted vessel sank.
The San Jose Police Union is supporting a Senate bill that would make it a federal offense to assault an officer after a recent spike in officers being assaulted on the job.
A woman died after she was hit by a stray bullet early Monday in East Oakland.
The Titans of Mavericks surf competition has been canceled indefinitely, according to the World Surf League, which cited "various logistical challenges" and "the inability to run the event the last two seasons" as reasons.
Three auto burglary suspects fled from police through San Francisco streets, leading to a crash at an intersection. Afterwards, the suspects fled on foot and one carjacked a woman, authorities said Monday afternoon.
Family members of two men killed in a horrific car crash in San Jose Saturday evening are questioning the police department's assertion that the men were in a street race when they died.
Firefighters are working to contain a vegetation fire on Mines Road in Livermore that has burned 20 to 25 acres, Cal Fire said Monday afternoon.
Alameda County Sheriff Department investigators were trying to determine if a body discovered Monday morning near the opening of the Oakland Estuary was that of a man who drove onto a runway of Oakland Internal Airport.
A crane working on BART tracks clipped power lines, which fell onto Highway 24 in Lafayette, closing down the freeway for about an hour early Monday and forcing intermittent closures for much of the afternoon.
California state lawmakers have just two weeks remaining in their session to sort through hundreds of bills, some addressing volatile topics such as vaccinating children and shootings by police.
