California News

What's causing that ring around the sun today?

2:44 PM, Jun 18, 2013

Many of you have written in to ask about or share photos of the halo effect encircling the sun over Northern California Tuesday.

Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire

1:36 PM, Jun 18, 2013

DETROIT - Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire.

Cal Fire: Unattended campfire origin of Mariposa Co. fire

1:21 PM, Jun 18, 2013

ELK GROVE - Twenty-two firefighters from the Cosumnes and Sacramento Fire Departments headed to Mariposa County overnight to help battle the 1,600-acre Carstens Fire.

States boost college funding, rein in tuition costs

9:43 AM, Jun 18, 2013

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.

Hundreds of homes evacuated in Mariposa Co. fire

7:55 AM, Jun 18, 2013

MARIPOSA - Scores of additional homes have been evacuated, as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Sierra foothills.

More evacuations ordered in Mariposa Co. wildfire

7:54 PM, Jun 17, 2013

MARIPOSA - Cal Fire says about 150 residences  were threatened in the 900-acre Carstens Fire burning in the Sierra National Forest. Fire crews had 15 percent containment as of 2 p.m. Monday.

Cancer killed Calif. serial killer Richard Ramirez

2:38 PM, Jun 17, 2013

SACRAMENTO - Coroner's officials say a form of cancer, lymphoma, killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s.

Jurors tear up at trial for 4 slain N. Calif. women

2:08 PM, Jun 17, 2013

SAN RAFAE L - Jurors in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California, two of them in Yuba County, wiped tears from their eyes as a prosecutor showed images of the victims' bodies and described how they were discovered.

Lawsuits filed against Calif. Delta plan

1:05 PM, Jun 17, 2013

FRESNO - Environmental and fishing groups have filed a lawsuit against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Judge considers effect of fungus on Calif. inmates

8:40 AM, Jun 17, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly three-dozen inmate deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations have been blamed on the fungus, which causes an illness known as valley fever.

GM recalling nearly 200K SUVs due to fire danger

7:52 AM, Jun 17, 2013

General Motors is recalling nearly 200,000 mid-sze SUVs because the master power door and window module in the driver's door can short out and catch fire.

Just in time to pass Calif. budget and make it to his wedding

6:51 PM, Jun 15, 2013

SACRAMENTO - The Legislature's Democratic leaders touted their passage of a state budget ahead of their constitutional deadline, but no one was happier about it than Assemblyman Roger Hernandez.

Legislature passes Medicaid expansion in California

11:43 AM, Jun 15, 2013

SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature has passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians.

A.G.: Sacramento, San Mateo county prostitution ring busted

11:26 AM, Jun 15, 2013

SACRAMENTO - Four individuals, three of them from Sacramento County, were arrested Thursday night on suspicion of running a sex trafficking ring.

Legislature cooperates, clashes in budget debate

10:21 PM, Jun 14, 2013

Both houses of the Legislature send the bulk of the 2013-14 budget bills to the governor on Friday, with final passage of the spending plan expected just before the constitutional deadline.

Legislature passes $96.3B Democratic budget

4:49 PM, Jun 14, 2013

SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature has passed the state's massive spending plan amid sharp divisions over whether the Democratic budget will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.

Calif. growers lobby for Senate immigration bill

1:52 PM, Jun 14, 2013

WASHINGTON - Farm groups in California are lobbying for the Senate's immigration bill, which proposes bringing in thousands of new migrant workers and allowing undocumented employees already in the U.S. to become legal, permanent residents in about 10 years.

Capitol Connection Podcast: Fiscally Fit

10:51 PM, Jun 13, 2013

A new state budget with very little Democratic infighting, and the continuing buzz over an FBI raid at the state Capitol.

Giants fan beaten at Dodger Stadium returns home

2:05 PM, Jun 13, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Giants fan who suffered brain damage in a beating at Dodger Stadium has returned home after two years in hospitals and rehabilitation centers.

Calif. home prices jump 26 percent in May

12:00 PM, Jun 13, 2013

SAN DIEGO - A research firm says California home prices posted a 15th straight annual increase last month.

Solano DA: Officers acted in self-defense in fatal shooting

9:07 PM, Jun 12, 2013

VALLEJO - Two Vallejo police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot one man and wounded another in September, Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said in a 15-page report Wednesday.

Researchers revisit California's political redistricting

4:46 PM, Jun 12, 2013

A new report concludes California's political redistricting largely succeeded two years ago, but was saddled with problems that could have been avoided.

Brown plan gives big money to close education gap

4:13 PM, Jun 12, 2013

SACRAMENTO - California schools will receive an infusion of more than $3.6 billion in extra money this year, much of it targeted to the neediest students as part of a redistribution plan pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Sacramento man victim of San Francisco 49ers' stadium accident

3:34 PM, Jun 12, 2013

SANTA CLARA - A Sacramento man has been identified as the victim of a fatal accident Tuesday morning at the San Francisco 49ers' new under-construction stadium in Santa Clara.

Santa Monica College shooting details released

2:47 PM, Jun 12, 2013

The Los Angeles County coroner's office has released new details on the deaths of last week's Santa Monica gunman and his victims.

Burger King faces PR mess in Willits razor blade mishap

2:39 PM, Jun 12, 2013

Burger King still has some serious explaining to do.

Muni crash in San Francisco sends 15 to hospitals

2:21 PM, Jun 12, 2013

The accident, which involved a 9L-San Bruno bus and the F-Market and Wharves streetcar, happened around 11 a.m.

Rising home prices rescue underwater homeowners

6:10 AM, Jun 12, 2013

Demonstrating the power of rising home prices, the number of underwater homeowners has dropped below 10 million for the first time in more than at least three years.

Woman bites in BK hamburger, finds razor blade

6:34 PM, Jun 11, 2013

WILLITS - A local woman bit into her Burger King hamburger and found a razor blade. Police have learned it wasn't a malicious act or a bad prank.

Walmart, big box stores accused of 'dumping' employees into Medi-Cal

4:31 PM, Jun 11, 2013

SACRAMENTO - Some state lawmakers accuse Walmart and other big businesses of paying employees such low wages the employees are forced to go Medi-Cal.

OTC morning-after pill sales coming - but not yet

2:17 PM, Jun 11, 2013

WASHINGTON - Backed into a corner by a series of court rulings, the Obama administration has agreed to let the Plan B One-Step brand of emergency contraception sell over the counter to anyone of any age.

Smokejumper killed fighting No. Calif. wildfire

1:02 PM, Jun 11, 2013

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - A 28-year firefighter assigned to a wildfire burning in the Modoc National Forest in northeast California was killed when part of a tree fell on him late Monday afternoon.

Immigration bill clears Senate hurdle

12:58 PM, Jun 11, 2013

WASHINGTON - The Senate overcame a critical hurdle on Tuesday toward advancing the first immigration overhaul in a generation that would affect the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants, all U.S. employers and future legal immigrants.

Vallejo lets residents set part of budget

12:29 PM, Jun 11, 2013

VALLEJO - Vallejo, which emerged from bankruptcy two years ago, is trying a novel approach to setting part of its budget: having the public decide.

Calif. state workers to get raises in proposed deal

11:42 AM, Jun 11, 2013

SACRAMENTO - California's largest public employee union says it has reached a tentative agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown on a new three-year contract that includes raises for 95,000 state workers.

Calif. hospitals ranked on quality of care

11:25 AM, Jun 11, 2013

SACRAMENTO - A just-released 2011 report looks at the mortality rates of 12 different procedures and conditions, including hip fractures, brain surgery and heart failure, at 332 California hospitals.