Late at night on February 18, a UC Berkeley astronomy research scientist looking for extraterrestrial life finished his work only to find two burglars walking through the new $80 million Campbell Hall at the Berkeley SETI Research Center.
On Friday, for the second time in a week, teachers in Compton failed to show up for work at 10 of the school district’s 37 campuses, according to teachers’ union president Patrick Sullivan. The school district claimed nine campuses were affected, as KPCC reported.
California Democrats at the party’s state convention Saturday in San Jose voted to endorse state Attorney General Kamala Harris in her campaign for the United States Senate.
If Adidas has its way, the sportswear company may hand over $1 million to a super-fast prospect at the 2016 NFL Scouting Combine.
Was that a unicorn that a California Highway Patrol helicopter captured on Wednesday in Madera?
A recent court ruling from a federal judge offers the frightening prospect that 10 million California children’s addresses, Social Security numbers and personal records could be released–and stolen.
Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-Milpitas) has proposed Assembly Bill 2496, which would put a halt to Daylight Saving Time in California.
On Wednesday, in what could be construed as a subtle hit on Hillary Clinton, California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted his support for Ke$ha, the performer who has claimed Dr Luke, who ran the record label featuring her, psychologically tormented her
On Wednesday, as part of a lawsuit brought by six women against the University of Tennessee, a new legal filing asserted football coach Butch Jones told a player he had “betrayed the team” for helping a woman claiming she had been raped by two of the player’s teammates.
On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced former California state senator Leland Yee, 67, to five years in prison after Yee accepted a plea deal over charges of weapons trafficking.
The city of Santa Monica, California, which was nicknamed “The People’s Republic of Santa Monica” as far back as the early 1980s, has launched an attack on Airbnb and VRBO, using the Santa Monica City Council’s ban on short-term rentals issued in May 2015.
The death cap mushroom, which can be fatal if ingested, is still spreading in California.
Sepp Blatter, former FIFA president, and Michel Platini, the president of the Union of European Football Associations from 2007 until 2015, who were originally banned from soccer for eight years after being found guilty of a conflict of interest in a two million Swiss franc deal, had their sentences reduced to six years by the FIFA Appeal Committee.
Speaking to the nation’s governors at the National Governors Association meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Barack Obama cracked a joke that implicitly referred to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death only days after Obama refused to attend the justice’s funeral.
The number of registered Republican voters in California has dropped 8% since 2012, according to a report issued by Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Monday.
Early Sunday morning, a homeless woman in Victorville was arrested for attempting to steal a rather conspicuous object: a Burlington Northern and Santa Fe locomotive.
On Tuesday, Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals held a press conference to speak publicly for the first time about allegations in an Al Jazeera America documentary linking him to performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).
Now that David Price has joined the Boston Red Sox, he and David Ortiz have buried the hatchet, after two years of acrimonious sniping at each other.
The Asian-American population in Orange County, traditionally a Democratic constituency, may be willing to turn toward the Republican Party if the GOP continues its efforts at outreach, analysts say.
A 25-year-old college graduate with a degree in English literature was fired from Yelp soon after she posted a blistering open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman complaining that she was underpaid.
On Friday, the day before the South Carolina primary, Ann Coulter responded fiercely to answers Marco Rubio gave about racism when questioned at a CNN townhall only days before. Coulter accused Rubio of running an “anti-white campaign.”
Thanks to the passage of Proposition 47, which reduced some felonies to misdemeanors, and allowed some prison inmates to be released early into the general public, one former inmate had the chance to commit attempted murder in a shoot-out with police.
A partially paralyzed high school boy was bullied by being tossed in the trash by a classmate at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, California, then repeatedly shoved back into the trash can as he attempted to climb out.
Due this September: the world’s largest radio telescope, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI arrested Bart Hernandez, an agent who has represented Cuban baseball stars, including Jose Abreu, Adeiny Hechavarria, Jorge Soler and Leonys Martin, on charges of human smuggling.
Thanks to a local fishing line vessel’s dragline net, Humboldt State University’s marine laboratory now possesses a huge clubhook squid over 12 feet long and weighing over 60 pounds.
The National Park Service is being urged to change the name of LeConte Memorial Lodge in the Yosemite Valley by the Sierra Club, as the environmental group has charged Joseph LeConte, a founding member of the Sierra Club, was an unrepentant racist.
Beyonce’s race-baiting Super Bowl halftime show continues to boomerang on her as police boycott her upcoming concert at Marlins Park on April 26 and off-duty cops refuse to work security for her concert on April 29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
Northern California won and Southern California lost, as the California High-Speed Rail Authority has decided that the first leg of the bullet train will be built between Bakersfield and San Jose.
On Wednesday, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center CEO Allen Stefanek admitted that the 434-bed short-term acute care hospital paid 40 bitcoins, worth $16,664 dollars, to a hacker who penetrated and disabled its computer network on February 5. Stefanek released a statement
A state auditor is accusing Covered California, the agency charged with enrolling Californians in Obamacare, of awarding sole-source contracts without hearing competitive bids.
On Tuesday, the women’s group Ultraviolet called for advertisers to drop Peyton Manning as their spokesman, citing an alleged incident from 1996 in which Manning supposedly exposed himself to a female trainer at the University of Tennessee.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris may be on Barack Obama’s list of nominees to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death. Harris champions leftist positions on virtually everything, including abortion, ending the federal ban on medical marijuana, easing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and shorter sentences for some drug crimes.
Sports Illustrated’s new swimsuit edition has three different covers, and one of them features the first plus-size cover model in the history of the annual issue.
On Tuesday, Manny Pacquiao, “Fighter of the Decade” for the 2000s according to the Boxing Writers Association of America and Ring Magazine, apologized for remarks in which he called homosexuality something that even animals don’t try.
On Sunday, California governor Jerry Brown slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that the Senate should wait until after the presidential election to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
On Thursday, Adidas made LGBT athletes more comfortable to publicly confess their sexual orientation by announcing that the contracts for athletes the sportswear company represents will feature a clause assuring the athletes Adidas will not terminate or alter the original contract as a result of their public confessions.
On Saturday, San Francisco nudists marched from Castro and Market streets to City Hall to hold the “Valentine’s Nude Love Parade,” to celebrate “love,” according to its organizer.
On Saturday night, the Eagles of Death Metal band, which was onstage at the Bataclan theater in Paris on November 13 when Islamic terrorists killed 89 people, played their first concert in Europe since the massacre.
A 31-year-old pizza delivery man from Hemet, California found his life changed forever when he won over one million dollars in the California lottery.
