Democratic donor Ed Buck's trial centers on alleged injection fetish

Nearly two years after Ed Buck was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors, the wealthy Democratic donor is going on trial Tuesday on charges of providing fatal doses to two men, running a drug den and persuading others to travel for prostitution.

Stagecoach country music festival announces 2022 lineup

The Stagecoach Music Festival 2022 lineup includes headliners Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs.

Oakland middle schooler becomes national weightlifting champion

Seth Evans, an eighth-grader from Oakland, became a national weightlifting champion, winning both weightlifting events at the USA Weightlifting national competition.

California parents capture sex offender standing in 5-year-old girl’s bedroom, authorities say

A California mother and father subdued and duct-taped a registered sex offender who they caught standing in their 5-year-old daughter’s bedroom early Tuesday after he broke in through a window, authorities said.

Memorial service for first California peace officer to die of coronavirus

Santa Rosa Police Detective Marylou Armer was the first peace officer in California killed by the coronavirus and only the second death in Sonoma County.

Fairfield homeowner shoots and kills intruder with .357 Magnum

At around 8:30 a.m., a man knocked on the door, kicked the door open, and made entry into the house on Vintage Valley Drive after receiving no response, Fairfield Councilmember Catherine Moy, wrote on her Facebook page.

Death penalty off the table for man suspected in rapper Pop Smoke's murder

Prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against the man who was charged in rapper Pop Smoke’s killing. The 20-year-old rapper was gunned down at a Hollywood Hills home in February 2020.

California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations

California is poised to approve reparations up to $25,000 to victims who were among the thousands of people — some as young as 13 — who decades ago were sterilized because state officials deemed them unfit to have children.

VIDEO: Bear attacks group of men on the 4th of July on Mount Wilson

A bear attacked a group of men who were waiting to watch fireworks on the 4th of July on Mount Wilson and the incident was captured on video.

Surveillance video shows California inmate stealing firetruck; taking wild ride in escape attempt

The 31-year-old was part of an inmate crew fighting a vegetation fire caused by illegal fireworks late Sunday in the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Shingle Springs east of Sacramento, said California’s corrections and firefighting agencies, which jointly oversee the inmate firefighters.

San Francisco to pay $3.25M to family of man shot by police in 2017

San Francisco supervisors voted to pay a proposed $3.25 million to the family Sean Moore, who was shot by an officer in 2017 and who died three years later from causes the coroner found were partly caused by a gunshot wound created by police.

Owner of 'Flintstone House' settles lawsuit with California town

The California town called the towering dinosaurs and life-size sculptures “a highly visible eyesore” and sued the owner, alleging she violated local codes when she put dinosaur sculptures in the backyard and made other landscaping changes.

3-year-old California boy killed when gun went off inside his home

Bryson Vang's parents and his siblings were inside the home when the gun went off around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, and the boy’s father found him in a bedroom with the gun.

Home builders fined $18K for destroying dozens of Joshua trees

The home builders dug up and destroyed 32 Joshua trees on the property that they own in San Bernardino County to make room for a house they want to build there.