1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (551+ words) An infamous Marin County man convicted of several audacious crimes won’t be released from prison anytime soon. At 17 years old, Max Wade stole celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s $200,000 Lamborghini to impress a girl and, months later, tried to shoot a man…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (767+ words) Bruce Davis, who was Charles Manson’s so-called “right-hand man,” died in a California prison hospital late last week at the age of 83, corrections officials said Monday. Davis was pronounced dead by a registered nurse at the California Medical Facility in…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (418+ words) A high school football coach in Tracy, Calif., was arrested Friday after the discovery of a cellphone that was recording students inside a locker room, authorities said. On the evening of Sept. 10, a parent contacted police in the San Joaquin…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (359+ words) Shalini Thakur was supposed to celebrate her 39th birthday this week. Instead, she was laid to rest. The Sacramento woman was killed last Tuesday by a man who had stalked her for months, according to authorities. The man, identified as 22-year-old…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (377+ words) Los Angeles police corralled and arrested scores of minibike riders on Sunday, thwarting a takeover of 6th Street Bridge, police said. Officers encountered a group of more than 70 young people — many of them minors — operating unauthorized motorized minibikes while blocking the…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago   (265+ words) A high-speed car crash in Irvine claimed two lives on Sunday morning, including a person affiliated with a well-known Orange County car show that hosts thousands of vehicles in San Clemente each week, according to police and social media posts....

22+ hour, 42+ min ago   (501+ words) JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (534+ words) PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Latinos were racially profiled in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdown in Arizona has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. Maricopa County failed to show that the…...