Man who placed wife’s body in front of kids guilty of murder
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California man who killed his wife and propped up her body on a sofa as her children opened...
California to move to statewide reopening plan in June
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has led the nation’s most populous state through the pandemic using complicated metrics, county-by-county rules and a...
Will the Oscars be a `who cares’ moment as ratings dive?
NEW YORK — George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late...
Discarded masks litter beaches worldwide, threaten sea life
SANDY HOOK, N.J. — To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks...
San Francisco school board to vote on school renaming, again
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a much-criticized decision to purge 44 schools of names it said were...
Lawmakers call YouTube Kids a ‘wasteland of vapid’ content
A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content" so it...
Study: Drought-breaking rains more erratic, rare in US West
BILLINGS, Mont. — Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change...
Marines open another probe into sunken tank blamed on errors
SAN DIEGO — The Marine Corps has launched a probe looking at the readiness of its troops before they participated in an exercise that...
Auction of Japanese internment art pulled after protest
LOS ANGELES — The auction of a series of sketches purportedly drawn by an artist at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar was canceled...
Man charged with throwing rocks at Asian woman, child in car
FULLERTON, Calif. — A Southern California man has been charged with throwing rocks at an Asian woman and her 6-year-old son as they drove...