Peyton Manning, who reached quasi-legendary status in the Volunteer State when he starred for the University of Tennessee, validated that status on Saturday night when he visited the Naval Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga to spend time with military personnel and police officers.
KQED’s data showed Bay Area-based medical students’ rates of proceeding to residency programs after graduation from Stanford and UCSF were some of the lowest in the country. Stanford ranked 117th among 123 U.S. medical schools; only 65% of its students opted to continue their work in residency programs, according to Doximity. UCSF ranked 98th with 79% of the students choosing residency. The figures do not take into account students who may have postponed residency.
On Saturday, some tree-huggers protesting the removal of eucalyptus trees in the East Bay Hills decided that their hugs needed more intimacy, and stripped naked to hug eucalyptus trees on the University of California Berkeley campus for a photography shoot.
Several California drivers are balking at the hefty fees they will have to pay for having their vehicles towed from Interstate 15 after the highway was engulfed by a brush fire. Drivers complain that many of the vehicles were drivable, and that they had no choice of towing companies, according to NBC Los Angeles.
In the merry-go-round blame game being played by San Francisco officials as to which party is responsible for letting loose illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who murdered Kathryn Steinle on July 1, the latest salvo comes from San Francisco sheriff’s deputies, who filed a complaint against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
On Wednesday, two thirteen-year-olds selling lemonade in Rancho Cucamonga were allegedly robbed by an 18-year-old man after they offered him a glass of lemonade for free.
On Friday, congressional Democrats will attend the Naval Academy in Annapolis to discuss how the Academy plans to deal with flooding forecast for the future.
Students Matter, the same group that successfully won its case in Vergara v. California, which ruled certain teacher tenure protections were unconstitutional, is attempting to make certain that teacher evaluations must include test scores of their students.
Some members of the Latino community in California are beating the hell out of the latest Trump incarnation: a Trump piñata. Although the piñatas are unavailable in California, the family of Hector Barajas, a GOP strategist, bought some in Mexico
Under a huge headline screaming “Horror at Home,” Huffington Post obfuscated the massacre of four American Marines by a radical Muslim by writing, “Motive Mystery.”
Now that the Confederate battle flag has been removed from the South Carolina capitol, football coaches at Mississippi’s major universities are being asked to weigh in on removing the state flag, the only flag in the union that contains the Confederate battle flag.
Video has been released of an off-duty Mansfield, Texas, firefighter who executed a perfect WWE slam on a would-be robber at a gas station.
Following the revelation from The Boston Herald that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration secretly transferred nearly $27 million in public money to off-budget accounts funding a $1.35 million trade junket tab, the Herald has now revealed that Patrick and his wife used lavish amounts of funds for their trips around the world and his own trade missions.
Two high-level Republican lawmakers had seen a video showing a Planned Parenthood executive discussing what the organization charges researchers from organs harvested from aborted babies–and were aware of it weeks before it caused an online furor.
According to CBS Detroit and the Grand Rapids Press, an Iraqi woman who claimed she fled Iraq because Baghdad was “hell,” made life hell for a 14-year-old girl in western Michigan and is now charged with sexual assault.
On Wednesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring professional sports teams to offer cheerleaders minimum wage, workers’ compensation, paid sick leave and rest breaks.
A California Democrat has introduced a U.S. House resolution designed to ban the use of “husband” and “wife” from the United States Code.
The Prius driver who survived the February fatal multivehicle crash in which Bruce Jenner was involved implicitly condemned the ESPY awards for honoring Jenner with the Arthur Ashe Award Wednesday night.
The Internet sears with outrage over ESPN’s bestowal of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on the Athlete Formerly Known as Bruce Jenner rather than giving it to Lauren Hill, the utterly courageous 19-year-old woman who battled inoperable brain cancer while playing basketball for Mount St. Joseph’s.
The NYPD alleges that, early Monday morning, an 18-year-old man sneaked into the bedroom of an 82-year-old Brooklyn woman, then waited for her to arrive before he demanded money, raped, and sodomized her.
Left-wing Democrats in California are demanding that Governor Jerry Brown increase spending as he attempts to keep the state budget in the black. The battle allows rank-and-file Democrats to pose as champions of various issues dear to their constituents while Brown can be seen as a fiscal moderate.
On Tuesday, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred stated that he supports expansion, envisioning a sport that could mushroom to 32 teams.
The Sacramento NAACP has blasted the Sacramento News & Review, the same weekly newspaper that requested emails Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted kept secret, for running a cover featuring a cartoon of Johnson that the NAACP says is racist.
Back in April, radio talk show host Mark Levin exploded in anger, warning that the United States Senate had capitulated to Barack Obama and rewritten the U.S. Constitution by giving up its power to stop the dangerous nuclear deal between the United States and Iran.
On Monday, the California Department of Public Health revealed that syphilis among women and newborns has skyrocketed since 2012.
