SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first in a week of storms brought gusty winds, rain and snow to California on Tuesday, starting in the north and spreading southward. There were numerous reports of roadway flooding and downed trees and branches, the National Weather Service said. Winter storm warnings were issued for the Sierra Nevada, where…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As sensors picked up the first signs of a strong earthquake jolting the Northern California coast, an alert was blasted to 3 million smartphone users telling them to “drop, cover, hold on.” It was hailed as the biggest test yet of the warning system since its public launch. But the people…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge on Tuesday rejected a new murder trial for Scott Peterson, nearly 20 years after he was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife, Laci, and the unborn child they planned to name Conner into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. Peterson, 50, alleged the resulting…… MORE
UPDATE: 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, the sheriff’s office reported two people died as a result of medical emergencies during or after the quake. At least 11 people were reported injured. State officials says there have been about 80 aftershocks, one a 4.6 magnitude, in the same area where a 6.4 quake rumbled in Northern California this…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing. But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial…… MORE
Sonia Hughes was strangled to death in the Fall of 2006. Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in Visalia a few months after her disappearance. 16 years later Sonia’s husband, Joseph Allen Hughes, has been sentenced to life in prison for her murder. In February 2016, a family member with intimate knowledge…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection, calling for accountability for the former president and “a time of reflection and reckoning.” After one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory, the panel’s seven Democrats and…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement. After deliberating for nine days spanning more than two weeks, the jury of eight men and four women reached the verdict at the second…… MORE
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State and federal officials are warning horse owners not to feed their animals Top of the Rockies brand alfalfa cubes after nearly 100 horses developed neurologic illnesses — 45 of which have died or been euthanized. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the warning Saturday. The agency said it’s working…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The first woman to lead California’s highway patrol will retire Dec. 30, two years after she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to succeed the first Black man to head the agency. The California Highway Patrol on Friday announced the retirement of Amanda Ray, 56, the Sacramento Bee reported. The CHP…… MORE
