An adult male and female child were found dead Saturday in the SUV targeted in a statewide Amber Alert following a father's abduction of his Sacramento toddler, the FBI said.
Earthquakes are expected to sign international player Sunday after two questionable officiating calls fuel Colorado Rapids' comeback that leads to another big setback to San Jose's fading playoff hopes.
S.F. coach Jim Harbaugh on opening exhibition loss to New Orleans Saints: "We struggled offensively, and you don't want to see your quarterback hit like that."
INDIANAPOLIS -- Authorities said they have confirmed at least three deaths after a stage collapsed Saturday night during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform.
In my search to understand how we decide and choose what to believe, I ran across a behavior we all exhibit when we are presented with some new data about a subject.
The June Alameda County grand jury report on the problems in the In-Home Support Services program shine a spotlight on a system that affects every county in the state and roughly 441,000 elderly and disabled Californians who rely on the IHSS program for nonmedical in-home care. Of those, 43,000 are in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, whose IHSS programs have all been scrutinized by grand juries in the past decade.
Would it surprise you to know that, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, there have been 10 mass shootings in the United States since July 22, when a Norwegian right-wing fanatic went on a rampage in Norway, killing nearly 70 people, many of them children?
SANTA ROSA -- An armored car company is offering a reward of $100,000 for information after a robbery of its Santa Rosa facility. The Press Democrat reports (http://bit.
Illegally posted advertisements for a documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes are keeping anti-graffiti crews from the San Francisco Department of Public Works busy.
A new mural was painted on the side of a shop at the corner of 34th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, about 30 feet wide and 15 feet high, depicting what organizers said is the past, present, and future of the Chicano community, including a present-day struggle against police.
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