A college campus in San Diego was cordoned off by the county Department of Health on Thursday after a female student who may have had contact with an Ebola patient vomited in the middle of class. A teacher at Southwestern
With the first six weeks of the NFL season in the books, smart fantasy team owners are looking toward the playoffs. Week 7 is set to kick off tonight when the New England Patriots host the New York Jets at
A new app that lets medical marijuana patients in the Bay Area tap a few buttons on their phone to receive high-quality medicine at their door hit the Google Play Store this week. The app, called “Meadow,” is the latest
Archaeologists working in a California desert this week dug up two giant sphinxes used on the set of the 1923 silent film “The Ten Commandments.” The sphinxes were famously dynamited and left buried in the Guadalupe Dunes after the completion
Yellow fever mosquitoes, so called because of their ability to transmit several debilitating viruses, have been found in Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Times, the mosquitoes were first discovered in Commerce and Pico Rivera last week. The
A market research company is using surveys delivered through cell phones to collect data on food shortages from the regions in Africa worst hit by the Ebola virus. Mobile Accord, based in Denver, Colorado, has been working with the United
A member of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere stormed into a San Francisco restaurant and launched into a tearful rant against eating meat. A video of the incident quickly went viral on YouTube, garnering 578,000 views as of
A California farmer made history on Monday after submitting a 2,058-pound pumpkin to a growing competition, breaking the record for largest pumpkin grown in North America. Organizers of the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival told the Los Angeles Times that
Covered California, the state health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, awarded $184 million worth of contracts for various services to several firms without obtaining competitive bids for the contracts, according to a new investigative report.
Democrats and Republicans have stepped up campaign expenditures in a pivotal California Senate race that could decide whether Democrats regain supermajority status in the state Senate. According to the Fresno Bee, 14th Senate District Republican incumbent Andy Vidak’s campaign received
Police in the small town of Weed, California arrested a suspect accused of starting a massive wildfire that burned 516 acres and destroyed 157 homes. Ronald Beau Marshall, 24, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with felony arson of an
California has reported 32 cases of the respiratory illness enterovirus D-68, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said on Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of patients with the illness has more than doubled in just
President Obama stopped by the campaign headquarters of state Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) on Thursday to offer his endorsement of the candidate in person and to provide some motivation to campaign volunteers working the phones. Lieu is running against Republican
Week 6 is upon us. Last week’s action brought us marquee performances from Peyton Manning (479 yds, 4 TDs, 2 INT) and Russell Wilson (323 combined yds, 3 TDs, 0 INT), as well as outstanding play from Austin Davis (375
A pilot using an air tanker to battle a massive wildfire at Yosemite National Park died after the aircraft crashed on Tuesday. Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant told CNN that authorities lost contact with the pilot on Tuesday afternoon while
Dozens of California public officials who have called for residents to cut back their water use amid the state’s devastating drought are apparently ignoring their own demands for conservation, and are allegedly using enough water for multiple households. According to
Vice President Joe Biden travelled to to Cal State Bakersfield on Tuesday to stump for Democrats Alex Padilla and Amanda Renteria in their races for secretary of state and 21st congressional district, respectively. According to the Fresno Bee, Biden used
LOS ANGELES — Supporters of Democrat Ben Allen are enlisting the help of unlikely allies in their effort to help him defeat Sandra Fluke for California’s open 26th district State Senate seat: Republican voters. Mailers from Allen’s campaign began arriving
The race for one solidly Democrat state Senate seat in Fresno, California could prove crucial for Republicans looking to break a Democrat supermajority in the chamber. Republican incumbent Andy Vidak, a local farmer elected to the seat last year in
Vice President Joe Biden is almost certainly set to infuriate Los Angeles drivers when he attends fundraisers in the city on Monday and Tuesday during peak commute times. According to NBC Los Angeles, Biden will attend a $2,500-per-plate Democratic Congressional
State Sen. Ben Hueso is still projected to win re-election to the 40th State Senate district despite an August arrest for DUI, political analysts told the San Diego Union-Tribune this week. Hueso also faces a lawsuit from political activists, who
Tech and car enthusiast circles are buzzing with fresh speculation after Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, tweeted out an invitation to a special October 9 press event where the company will unveil what looks to be a
Fresno County sheriff’s deputies arrested four teenagers on Wednesday on charges of burglary and felony cruelty to animals after authorities found 920 chickens beaten to death with a golf club at the Foster Farms chicken shed earlier this week. According
BAKERSFIELD, CA — A legal group representing nut farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, hoping to reverse a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision from March that upheld a
BAKERSFIELD, CA — Kern County Agriculture Commissioner Ruben Arroyo is wary, but upbeat. “It’s hard to say what the future holds,” Arroyo said. “If we don’t get rain this year, the wells will run dry. People won’t have water for
