
SAN BERNARDINO, California — The town is eerily quiet, as you might expect following the atrocity in San Bernardino earlier today.
by Michelle Moons and Raheem Kassam2 Dec 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan announced that in honor of their daughter’s birth, they would donate 99 percent of their shares in Facebook, valued at $45 billion, to various causes.
by William Bigelow2 Dec 2015, 6:07 PM PST0

Following the news of the heinous attack on Inland Regional Services complex in San Bernardino, California, Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera tweeted that the “2nd Amendment is stupid” and asked Americans not to “rationalize” otherwise.
by AWR Hawkins2 Dec 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

Former National Guard enlisted American student Nicholas Michael Teausant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization–namely, ISIS.
by Michelle Moons2 Dec 2015, 5:34 PM PST0

Speaking on CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett Wednesday, former CIA case officer Robert Baer said the most “disturbing” aspect of the deadly San Bernardino shooting is that it was carried out using tactics that are employed in the Middle East.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Dec 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

Even as authorities were still working to clear the Inland Regional Services complex and find the attackers who caused the San Bernardino mayhem, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton took to Twitter to call for more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins2 Dec 2015, 2:45 PM PST0

As good people on social media watched unspeakable events unfurl in San Bernardino, California, on their television sets, all one could do in a situation where you can really do nothing is pray and offer those prayers to the world.
by John Nolte2 Dec 2015, 2:34 PM PST0

Retail analysts at Foursquare Direct reported that Black Friday shopping traffic was down only 2 percent, but mall and superstores sector traffic plunged by 5 percent.
by Chriss W. Street2 Dec 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

Uber’s poaching spree continues as the multibillion-dollar company has snatched away a second executive from Google Maps, Manik Gupta.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Dec 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

On Tuesday, Christopher Kohrs, 38, a.k.a. the “Hot Cop of the Castro,” was charged with two felony counts of hit-and-run stemming from a North Beach hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning.
by William Bigelow2 Dec 2015, 1:07 PM PST0

Live updates in the aftermath of the San Bernardino Islamic terrorist attack: most lately, a photo of Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Farook, has come to light.
by Joel B. Pollak2 Dec 2015, 12:02 PM PST0

In an interview before jetting to Paris for the UN climate change conference with a large entourage in tow, California Gov. Jerry Brown said that Californians would need to adopt a “lighter, more elegant lifestyle” to save the planet from destruction.
by Joel B. Pollak2 Dec 2015, 5:57 AM PST0

The California Supreme Court stopped a development project at Newhall Ranch, north of Los Angeles, over concerns that it would contribute to climate change–though the court admitted it could not say how.
by Joel B. Pollak2 Dec 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

Readers of Sunday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times were presented with a front-page story depicting a sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s Syrian refugee resettlement project.
by Julia Hahn1 Dec 2015, 9:20 PM PST0

On November 29 a salesman was allegedly “ambushed” by two suspects in a strip mall parking lot and “pistol-whipped” before drawing his own gun, opening fire, and wounding one of the two suspects.
by AWR Hawkins1 Dec 2015, 7:42 PM PST0

San Francisco’s needle exchange program, which began in 1988 in an attempt to prevent, reduce and eventually thwart the spread of HIV among users, has spiraled out of control and into a public health disaster for inhabitants of the burgeoning city.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Dec 2015, 1:12 PM PST0

California failed to meet its monthly water conservation target in October for the first time since Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandatory regulations took effect in June, but the state remains on track to meet the 25 percent overall reduction target required to be reached by February.
by Daniel Nussbaum1 Dec 2015, 12:55 PM PST0

On Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that the House investigation of Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling fetal tissue to researchers for profit will continue.
by William Bigelow1 Dec 2015, 10:32 AM PST0

A Burlingame couple is renting out their children’s one-bedroom, one-bathroom treehouse for $275 a night on Airbnb.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Dec 2015, 10:29 AM PST0

Eight Democrat state legislators are joining California Gov. Jerry Brown at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week. Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) are leading the delegation.
by William Bigelow1 Dec 2015, 10:22 AM PST0

In approving the Chinese yuan as a 10.92 percent participant as a reserve currency in the global basket, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that China’s inclusion could push up interest rates.
by Chriss W. Street1 Dec 2015, 5:31 AM PST0

As California Gov. Jerry Brown participates in the Paris climate change conference, the state official who played a key role in the ongoing oil scandal surrounding Brown’s office has resigned, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday.
by Joel B. Pollak1 Dec 2015, 5:27 AM PST0

Monday’s Chicago Purchasing Manager’s Index for Mid-West manufacturing plunge to a score of 48.7 would have caused widespread economic concern three decades ago, but today’s blue-collar employment is down to only one in twelve Americans.
by Chriss W. Street1 Dec 2015, 12:00 AM PST0

In a story reminiscent of the Three Little Pigs, a man attempting to burglarize a home in Huron, California on Saturday by climbing down the chimney died when he became stuck and the homeowner returned and started a fire.
by William Bigelow30 Nov 2015, 5:32 PM PST0

Officer Christopher Kohrs, 38, feted by the gay community of San Francisco as the “Hot Cop of Castro,” was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run after allegedly ramming two men in his 2009 Dodge Charger in North Beach at roughly 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
by William Bigelow30 Nov 2015, 5:14 PM PST0