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California Lottery officials said B. Raymond Buxton, a Northern California retiree, claimed the prize at the California Lottery headquarters in Sacramento. Buxton was wearing a shirt that featured a picture of Yoda and read, "Luck of the Jedi I have," according to lottery officials.
An elderly woman has died, two people were in critical condition and three others sustained moderate to minor injuries during a fire at two residential buildings near Cow Palace in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood Tuesday evening, a paramedic captain said.
Pacific Gas and Electric has been charged with federal felony counts involving safety violations linked to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Construction on Apple's Spaceship campus is about to lift off into its second phase, but area motorists say it's resulting in traffic gridlock.
Former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson made a court appearance Tuesday on charges related to suspended State Sen. Leland Yee that involve murder-for-hire.
Police in Pleasant Hill were investigating two nearly identical incidents over the past two days involving a man who groped girls headed to school, a police sergeant said.
The state Senate leader has canceled a high-profile golfing fundraiser in the wake of criminal proceedings against three state senators.
Ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors' hearing this afternoon on a pending pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops, a group of protesters blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District.
A body has been found off of Highway 1 in Marin County where a vehicle registered to an elderly man missing for more than a month went off the road.
An East Bay woman was feeling lucky to be alive after being struck by lightning during Monday's storm.
A lower than average Sierra Snowpack was announced by state water officials on Tuesday, KCBS' Doug Sovern reports how it affects California's drought.
Even seasoned lawmakers will admit it: campaign finance reform can be a tricky issue for legislators and constituents to tackle, but with the recent indictment of state Sen. Leland Yee, the topic is again circulating in Sacramento and beyond.
The operators of the home rental service website, Airbnb, have agreed to pay San Francisco's 14-percent hotel tax.
FBI agents on Tuesday searched a legislative office belonging to state Sen. Leland Yee, a San Francisco Democrat who was arrested and charged last week as part of a wider federal investigation into criminal activity in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a 6-year-old girl near an Oakland elementary school on Friday.
