UC Berkeley Law Professor Withdraws Appeals Court Nomination
A liberal legal scholar is withdrawing his nomination to an appeals court judgeship after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on his confirmation last week.
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A liberal legal scholar is withdrawing his nomination to an appeals court judgeship after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on his confirmation last week.
A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is challenging Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to require all developers that make apps for their mobile devices to adopt formal privacy policies.
The federal agency that has approved about $3.5 billion in grants for California's high-speed rail system has no authority to change the September 2012 deadline to start construction.
California will once again be looking to get a piece of the $500 million before offered in the latest "Race to the Top" federal program.
San Francisco's controversial sit-lie ordinance has been mostly ineffective, a police lieutenant said at a department meeting Wednesday.
California officials said they won't arbitrarily free 33,000 inmates and they will submit plans to the federal courts in two weeks specifying ways to remedy prison overcrowding.
A plan to upgrade AT&T's network in San Francisco was again delayed by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has delayed a vote on his call for a fiscal emergency in the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and several city officials gathered at City Hall Tuesday to announce a measure for the November ballot that proposes widespread reform to city workers' pensions and health benefits.
Actress Jane Seymour claims Arnold Schwarzenegger has fathered two more children outside his 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver.
Supervisors in El Dorado county voted Tuesday to replace 36 gravestones that bear the N-word, giving the green light to state, county and community officials to design an alternative.
A heckler briefly interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress before U.S. Capitol police removed the protester from the chamber.
The state Assembly has come to the defense of endangered sharks targeted by fishermen who amputate their fins and toss the live sharks back into the ocean.
The question of whose police officers will patrol Mineta San Jose International has become a political hot-potato in San Jose.
The KCBS and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier shares his thoughts on Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's suggestion to sell the Kaiser Convention Center, which has been closed since 2006, to the city's redevelopment agency.
