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A new study published by the University of California Berkeley has found that the San Francisco Bay Area is more racially segregated today than it was in 1970, at the peak of the civil rights era.

BROOKVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another.

The residential real estate surrounding Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, is now so expensive that many locals have been forced to live in vans and RVs.

San Francisco continues to struggle with homelessness, with a population count revealing last week that the local homeless population had risen by 17% since 2017 — though youth and veteran homelessness had dropped.

The Trump administration followed through Thursday on its threat earlier this year to cancel a $929 billion grant that was meant to have funded high-speed rail rail in California.

A Georgia prison guard who recently converted to Islam alleges that the state Department of Corrections has barred her from wearing a hijab while on the job. 

Tesla’s solar ambitions are in deep trouble according to reports. Solar cells designed to replace roofing shingles are reportedly not working out well for the company, with the majority of solar cells being exported overseas. The company is facing fresh scrutiny about its factory in Buffalo, New York, and the promises it made to the state to employ a certain number of workers at the facility.

A 22-month-old boy that went missing in Magoffin County, Kentucky, has been found alive after three days. He was located on a cliff edge near a strip mine just 2,000 feet from his home.

San Francisco authorities have cracked down on journalist Bryan Carmody for refusing to reveal the source or sources who leaked damaging information about the death of a popular public defender.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden would face a tough contest in California, a delegate-rich state that will be hotly contested in the Democratic Party presidential primary in 2020.

The City of Oakland is in such dire financial straits that it is planning to use $2.9 million from state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on, rather than using the money to fix pothole-riddled roads, for which the funding was intended.

Twitter Prevents Links to Los Angeles City Council Republican Candidate’s Website, Labels It ‘Unsafe’

California Governor Gavin Newsom will propose repealing state sales taxes on tampons and diapers, championing a cause that has lingered at the margins of the Democrat-controlled state legislature for years but never gained traction.

George Washington High School is considering removing two 83-year-old murals that depict moments in American history involving president George Washington and other found fathers, as well as black and Native Americans. According to reports, critics argue that two of the murals “traumatizes students.”

A judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals in Charlottesville, Virginia, are protected by state law — which will likely halt any local efforts to remove the monuments, according to reports on the opinion released Tuesday afternoon.

Lori Gilbert Kaye, the woman who died while saving others during the synagogue shooting in Poway, California, on Saturday, was hailed for her lifelong and selfless commitment to charity at her funeral on Monday afternoon.

NEW YORK (AP) — Woodstock 50 is proving to be as chaotic as the original festival held in 1969.

Police confirmed Friday that several people were killed and others were injured in a fiery pileup involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 70 west of Denver, Colorado.

Former Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris is speaking out after former Vice President Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign Thursday with a video focused on an infamous violent incident within the city.

New York City plans to reduce the amount of red meat served in municipally-run facilities by half to combat climate change as part of the city’s recently-approved “Green New Deal.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld most of California’s “sanctuary state” laws on Thursday, dealing another setback to the Trump administration in its effort to challenge the laws.

Union members protested Eric Garcetti’s “Green New Deal” policies, which they worry will cost jobs and raise electricity rates.

An armed 18-year-old woman whose journal writings about the Columbine High School shooting prompted the closure of Denver-area public schools has been found dead, according to reports. 

Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, was charged Friday with attempted homicide for allegedly pushing or throwing a 5-year-old boy from the third floor of Minnesota’s Mall of America.

One person is dead and another injured Friday morning following a shooting at a Virginia Naval air station, one U.S. military official has confirmed to NBC News. 

The FBI says DNA testing ruled out the teenager as being Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora, Illinois.

California’s snowpack is officially 162% higher than average, the fourth-highest ever recorded, after state officials performed the annual measurement this week in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Tuesday’s election in Chicago was a blowout, with first-timer Lori Lightfoot toppling Chicago Democrat Machine candidate Toni Preckwinkle.

A North Carolina man with stage 4 cancer will get to live out his dream of traveling the world with his wife after he won $250,000 playing the lottery.

First-term Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA) “failed to disclose ties to five businesses, two of which he is still listed as a primary owner or director,” while running for Congress, according to an investigation by the Fresno Bee.

A judge sentenced a teenage girl to two days in jail on Wednesday for pushing her friend off a 60-foot bridge in Washington state, causing her to suffer serious injuries from the fall.

According to a recent report from Reveal News, Elon Musk’s Tesla left factory injuries off of official reports, to make its factories seem safer for workers than they really are.

The Trump administration sued California’s State Water Resourced Control Board (SWRCB) in federal court in Sacramento on Thursday, escalating a legal war over the fate of the water in the San Joaquin River valley system.

The traditional Islamic female head covering known as the hijab could soon be recognized by law as a “hands-free” device for using a mobile phone while driving, if a new bill in the Minnesota Legislature passes.

West Virginia State Police on Wednesday morning shut down Interstate 68 for several hours near the Maryland border after a man allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump and bomb the Pentagon, according to reports. 

Indianapolis Zoo President Rob Shumaker delivered an emotional announcement that the second elephant in their care had died within a week.