There were reports of a criminal in California who was really bad at multitasking. She went to a local Target store picked up $200 worth of items and a six pack of liquor. She then went into a dressing room and stayed there for about an hour. When she left she didn’t have any of […]
Serena Williams belted out Ricky Martin’s classic Livin La Vida Loca just days after suffering dizziness and fatigue. Her illness cost her another shot at her first title since returning to the tournament circuit. Williams and a group of friends reportedly sang karaoke tunes Wednesday night into Thursday morning at Neil’s Lounge in Indio, CA. […]
The family of a 20-year-old California rapper who was fatally shot by police in a Taco Bell drive-thru said an officer’s bodycam footage shows the victim was not awake when the trigger happy cops opened fire. Matter fact, Willie McCoy appeared to be scratching himself, not grabbing for a weapon, as law officials alleged. “What we saw […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The 737 inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row are getting a reprieve from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who plans to sign an executive order Wednesday placing a moratorium on executions. Newsom also is withdrawing the lethal injection regulations that death penalty opponents already have tied up in courts and shuttering the new […]
UPDATE: One man has been arrested in the murder of Trinity Love Jones, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has announced. Emiel Lamar Hunt, most recently of Los Angeles County and believed to be Jones’ mother’s boyfriend, has been taken into custody and charged with one count of murder. Smith was caught while sleeping in his […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California‘s first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling complaints against police produced numbers so unrealistically small that the board overseeing the tally wants departments to make changes to encourage more people to come forward. The panel’s most recent report found 17 percent of California’s law enforcement agencies reported not a single complaint […]
GUERNEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California river flooded 2,000 homes, businesses and other buildings and left two communities virtual islands after days of stormy weather, officials said Wednesday. The towns of Guerneville and Monte Rio were hardest hit by water pouring from the Russian River, which topped 46 feet (13 meters) late Wednesday night, […]
UPLAND, Calif. (AP) — A mother suspected of killing her 7-month-old daughter, then throwing or dropping her young son from a second-story apartment building and jumping herself could face a murder charge while investigators hunt for a motive, police said. The 24-year-old woman and her 1 ½-year-old boy were hospitalized in stable condition after Upland […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities arrested a man suspected of shooting the security guard of a news crew that was robbed while covering the Oakland teachers strike, according to a statement by the CBS affiliate. KPIX said a reporter and a photographer were gathering interviews Sunday about the strike at the Oakland Library when a […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California couple who shackled some of their 13 children to beds and starved them pleaded guilty Friday to torture and other abuse in a case dubbed a “house of horrors.” David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty Friday in Riverside County Superior Court to 14 counts that included abusing minor and […]
Remember when Stacey Dash was thinking about running for political office? Well, she probably decided not to because her tax issues would have been a campaign nightmare! According to a sister-state judgment obtained by The Blast, Dash owes $13,237.64 in back taxes stemming from a New York judgment back in 2016. The total amount due to […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry told a roomful of minority boys on Tuesday that they matter and urged them to make the world a better place. Obama was in Oakland, California, to mark the fifth anniversary of My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative he launched after […]
