A Los Angeles car-postal truck collision near the intersection of Hyperion and Lyric Avenue killed a mail carrier recently, according to a report in The Press Telegram.Los Angeles police Officer Sara Faden said Downey resident Maria F. Gutierrez, 30, was
The Oakland Athletics have announced that the organization is donating $8,500 to East Palo Alto's Ravenswood Little League to repurchase supplies that were stolen from the program over the weekend.
A Canadian man has been charged in Los Angeles federal court with smuggling $2 million worth of Ecstasy into the United States, authorities said. Alexandru Sabau was arrested near his apartment in Newport Beach after he arrived for a roadside
A chronic drunken driver has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for killing a young mother of three who was getting Christmas wrapping from the trunk of her car. Susanna Rey's 6-year-old son was watching when John
The hundreds of fires in Northern California are forcing firefighters to allocate their resources carefully: they focus on communities in the path of flames, allowing other blazes to chew through unpopulated forest land.
Two men were shot and killed early Tuesday morning outside a Lomita apartment, and a third victim was hospitalized, sheriff's officials said. Detectives were looking for four suspects, who confronted the victims about 12:01 a.m. in the 25900 block of
A 911 call was made from the cell phone of one of the victims of a double homicide Saturday in Mountain View about an hour before shots were fired at her residence, police have announced.
With more than 250 firefighters from the Rocky Mountain area fighting fires in California and the Southwest, fire managers have elevated their preparedness level so they can call for international or military assistance if needed.
Thirty alleged members and associates of a northeast Los Angeles gang have pleaded not guilty to federal racketeering and drug-related offenses. The defendants, including seven women, were split into groups of five as they entered their pleas Tuesday. All were
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday that an Aptos man has been arrested for allegedly selling and manufacturing illegal fireworks.
Robbers forced their way into the home of an 84-year-old fruit stand operator and took cash at gunpoint, a Yuba County Sheriff's Department official said Monday.
Repeat after me the first rule of environmental activism: "Think globally, act locally." But wait. What do we do when global concerns are at odds with what we hold dear at home? That question hangs over the Bay Area as
RESULTS: DAY 1 Bad S.F. sign: Christine Brunner moved to the St. Mary's Park area of San Francisco about a year ago, and her biggest public complaint is the black lettering on a street sign. An "e" and an "r"
A woman who lay down on the Caltrain tracks was struck and killed at 1:15 p.m. today near the San Bruno station, a spokeswoman for the rail line said. The woman was hit by a northbound train that was unable
