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Former Utah lawmaker Jackie Biskupski on Tuesday became the first openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City, the capital of the conservative state where the Mormon church and a small town judge delivered setbacks last week to the LGBT community.
FBI agents are accused of planting concealed microphones to record conversations on the steps just outside the San Mateo County Courthouse, court documents revealed Tuesday.
Police say anti-terrorist officers are raiding an apartment in a north Paris suburb where several men are holed up.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener Tuesday introduced legislation that would raise the purchasing age for tobacco from 18 to 21.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is criticizing President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating ISIS.
Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, who presided over big declines in crime over the last decade was selected as the new chief of Tucson.
Jimmy Panetta announced his campaign Tuesday for Congress representing central coast communities, following the steps of his father.
Police are investigating a vandalism incident involving an Islamic symbol at the French American International school in San Francisco.
Four retrofitted Lexus cars and four bubble-shaped cars Google commissioned are rolling around Austin, Texas, the first area Google has done extended testing outside its Silicon Valley base.
A group of homeless people staged a sleep-in at Berkeley's City Hall to protest a proposal to limit their personal items.
The deadly attacks in Paris may soon reopen the debate over whether - and how - tech companies should let governments bypass the data scrambling that shields everyday commerce and daily digital life.
More than 100 students are holding a sit-in at Stanford University Monday afternoon to call on school leaders and administrators to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
California Gov. Jerry Brown says he'll work closely with President Barack Obama to ensure any Syrian refugees coming to California are "fully vetted in a sophisticated and utterly reliable way."
For the first time ever, a boy has been cast in a Barbie commercial.
Law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area and across California have issued statements in the wake of Friday night's terrorist attack in France.
