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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A 53-year-old California woman suffering from leukemia sued the state’s attorney general and San Francisco’s top prosecutor on Wednesday seeking the…
“Serial Stowaway” Marilyn Jean Hartman has been caught doing what she appears to be good at, traveling for free. She is known for repeatedly trying to board flights in California…
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California is proposing sweeping changes in the way it protects underground drinking-water supplies from oil-and-gas operations. – Chief state oil and gas regulator Steve Bohlen says California will be making…
California’s history can’t be told without Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan missionary who introduced Christianity and established settlements as he marched north with Spanish conquistadores. Boulevards, public squares, freeways and…
An abandoned newborn has been found not far from a Southern California mall, and authorities believe a woman who said she witnessed the birth is the mother of the child….
Health officials had said earlier in the week that two children under age 1 who attended the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, Illinois, tested positive for the measles, and tests…
Firefighters in Northern California rescued a horse that got stuck in an outdoor bathtub. – Phantom, a Palomino/Appaloosa mix, was not injured.
Doctors told Vallejos she had four options: abortion; taking the pregancy to term and letting nature take its course; putting her baby through three separate reconstructive heart surgeries after birth;…
Several state legislatures are debating vaccine-related measures as dozens of people have fallen ill from a measles outbreak that started at Disneyland in December and spread beyond the theme park….
Two state senators in California are proposing legislation that would eliminate the “personal beliefs” exemption for parents who don’t want their children to be vaccinated. Dr. Richard Pan and Ben…
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but: California, you’ve got a heck of a lot to learn from Mississippi. Not in terms of per capita income, obesity rates or LGBT…
Two California lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday morning that would eliminate parents’ ability to opt out of school-mandated vaccines because of personal beliefs. – California is one of 19 states…
Conservationists are calling on California to shut down injection wells after a scathing San Francisco Chronicle report found the state has been letting oil companies drill and dump in protected,…
After years of legal troubles, California’s prison system is finally on the right track. Read the whole story at The San Francisco Chronicle
A Southern California day care has shut down because an infant therewho’s too young to get vaccinatedcontracted measles, another case in the re-emergence of the disease on the West Coast….
A big-rig hauling frozen chicken collided with a truck carrying bees in Southern California, igniting a fireball that quickly cooked the chicken. – A beekeeper was summoned, and the cleanup…
They’re not the first to sell boxes for $5 either. Girl Scouts of Northern California did so last year. And despite all the hooting and hollering, the Girls Scouts don’t…
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come…
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the new chairwoman of the Energy Committee, was at a reception in Hershey, Pa., last month when aides to Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the…
Birth place: Myra, West Virginia (grew up in Hamlin) Birth name: Charles Elwood Yeager Father: Albert Hal Yeager, a coal miner and gas driller Mother: Susie Mae (Sizemore) Yeager Marriages:…
S.J. in Manhattan Beach, California, writes: Why do our eyelids seem so heavy when we’re sleepy? Read the whole story
The California Department of Public Health sent out the latest numbers Friday of confirmed cases since December and while the total is still small, the jump was a startling 54…
More measles cases have been found in California, health officials said Friday. Figures released by the California Department of Public Health showed there are now 91 confirmed cases in the…
California could soon have the highest minimum smoking age in the country if a bill introduced Thursday makes its way through the legislature. – Hernandez’s office notes that California would…
San Francisco is not alone in its rain-free streak. Oakland and Sacramento have yet to have any measurable rainfall in 2015. These are the extremes, but almost all of northern…
Amid the measles outbreak stemming from California, the White House is telling parents that science indicates they should vaccinate their children. – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says…
Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated songwriter and…
California is days away from completing what may become its driest January on record — and a recent chart from water officials provides a grim glimpse at how low resources…
California health officials on Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U.S. in seeking…