Fast-moving fires are spreading across Northern California, with wind-whipped flames forcing people to flee their homes.Right NowThe fires are spreading smoke across a wide region, with the National Weather Service warning that air quality in the Bay Area could be “very poor for the foreseeable future.”VideoWildfires in California’s Sonoma and Napa Counties have forced many…
Newly released video footage shows a California sheriff’s deputy was “undeniably the initial aggressor” in a confrontation last year with an NBA team president, lawyers for the team official said Tuesday.The incident took place June 13, 2019, at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., just after the Toronto Raptors defeated the Golden State Warriors 114-100.The…
California’s electricity grid picked an inconvenient moment to stumble, at least for Democrats seeking to drum up support this week for Joseph R. Biden’s $2 trillion green-energy plan at the Democratic National Convention. The Golden State’s ambitious renewable portfolio standard is coming under fire as the state’s energy grid buckles under the strain of an…
A group of Southern California firefighters had their hands full with triple-digit temperatures, unpredictable flames and wild brush that blocked their path.Then a bull came for them.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.As about a half-dozen firefighters worked Friday to clear a remote road for engines working…
A district attorney in California lashed out in court this week, saying an allegedly impaired driver accused of killing a pregnant Disneyland employee now faces murder and other charges following previous DUI convictions in 2008, 2015 and 2016.Courtney Fritz Pandolfi, 40, of Garden Grove, was charged Thursday with murder, driving under the influence of drugs causing injury,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…