
Mark Anthony Estrada, 21, the man arrested in the Wednesday shooting death of Hayward police Sgt. Scott Lunger after a traffic stop, has been booked into Santa Rita Jail, according to KRON 4. Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Estrada was taken into custody at roughly 9 p.m. Thursday and will be arraigned Friday at 2 p.m.
by William Bigelow25 Jul 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

On Wednesday, a cyclist traveling through the Hulls Gulch Reserve in Boise, Idaho, started a 73-acre fire when he burned the toilet paper he used after pooping in the forest.
by William Bigelow24 Jul 2015, 6:08 PM PST0

The California drought may be hitting the state hard, but wine growers in the Lodi region say that the paucity of water will make their 2015 wines tastier.
by William Bigelow24 Jul 2015, 9:05 AM PST0

The same Australian PGA golfer who claimed he had been mugged in Hawaii at the Sony Open this year almost came to blows with his caddie at the RBC Canadian Open on Thursday, prompting the looper to leave midway through the round.
by William Bigelow24 Jul 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

Because of the implementation of Common Core Standards, the San Francisco Unified School District will delay offering Algebra 1 to middle school students, forcing them to wait until high school.
by William Bigelow24 Jul 2015, 5:26 AM PST0

On Thursday, Hillary Clinton, appearing at a campaign rally at Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, managed to contradict herself in mere seconds, asserting that voters should not vote for her because she’s a woman, then claiming one of her primary qualifications for the presidency is that she is a woman.
by William Bigelow23 Jul 2015, 7:30 PM PST0

Cesar Vargas, 31, who lives on Staten Island, emigrated to the United States when he was five but has never obtained U.S. citizenship.
by William Bigelow23 Jul 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

Many Special Olympics competitors on their way to Southern California venues for the competition arrived late at Loyola Marymount University, forcing them to sleep on the floor of the gymnasium Tuesday night.
by William Bigelow23 Jul 2015, 2:06 PM PST0

A league source confirmed that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Tom Brady discussed a settlement to avert Brady’s attorneys from challenging his Deflategate suspension in federal court.
by William Bigelow23 Jul 2015, 8:44 AM PST0

Women upset with a T-shirt marketed by Target with the word “Trophy” emblazoned on it are signing a petition that demands the store stop selling the product.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 7:39 PM PST0

According to the Associated Press, the FBI views Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the Muslim terrorist who murdered five servicemen in Chattanooga at two military sites, as a “homegrown violent extremist” and will not assert that he was radicalized by others.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 4:46 PM PST0

Gov. Jerry Brown, stoking climate change hysteria while speaking at a summit of mayors at the Vatican on Tuesday, pontificated that the world may have “gone over the edge” on global warming, adding that the threat of extinction faces the globe.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s ballot initiative, Six Californias, which would require California to split into six separate states, will not be on the 2016 ballot.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

California Senate leader Kevin de León, 48, and billionaire Tom Steyer, 58, are the state’s new green “power couple,” teaming up to push legislation that would address climate change, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

Gary Player, one of only five golfers to win the modern Grand Slam, along with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods, said that golf needs Woods to win championships again.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, late as usual, arrived in Rome Tuesday morning to pontificate at the Vatican about the dangers of climate change.
by William Bigelow22 Jul 2015, 7:49 AM PST0

A Russian billionaire has offered $100 million to fund researchers at UC Berkeley’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center to find extraterrestrial life.
by William Bigelow21 Jul 2015, 12:14 PM PST0

This week, Gov. Jerry Brown, who was once a Jesuit seminarian, asserted that he will block California legislators from attempting to replace the statue of Father Junípero Serra in the National Statuary Hall Collection on Capitol Hill with a statue of astronaut Sally Ride.
by William Bigelow21 Jul 2015, 11:45 AM PST0

A new study released Tuesday reveals that the poverty rates among American children have risen under the Obama Administration, especially African-American, American Indian, and Latino children.
by William Bigelow21 Jul 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

As part of the NBA Pride Collection, the Indiana Pacers will wear the Hickory uniforms immortalized in the 1986 MGM movie Hoosiers in selected games for the 2015-16 season.
by William Bigelow21 Jul 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

Rachel Dolezal is not to be dissuaded by her parentage or lineage: she stands by her claim that she is, indeed, a black woman.
by William Bigelow20 Jul 2015, 1:30 PM PST0

Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Christian Tupou, 26, who has bounced around the NFL trying to stick with a team since 2012, after his sterling career at University of Southern Caifornia, has been using his off-season to prepare for life after football, working for a month as an intern with state Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber.
by William Bigelow20 Jul 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

On Sunday, a 30-year-old Modesto man was arrested for the murders of two women and three children in their home. Heather Graves of the Modesto Police Department told local ABC News affiliate ABC10 that police had arrived at the home
by William Bigelow20 Jul 2015, 11:22 AM PST0

A woman driving her four-year-old son and one-year-daughter who was hit head-on by an illegal immigrant high on drugs on July 4 expressed her fury at a system permitting such a man to stay in the United States.
by William Bigelow20 Jul 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

A major thunderstorm around San Diego over the weekend made Sunday the wettest July day on record since data started being collected in 1850. Lindbergh Field was drenched with 1.03 inches of rain.
by William Bigelow20 Jul 2015, 10:52 AM PST0