San Diego Will Appeal Cross Ruling
SAN DIEGO -- The city plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to keep a giant cross standing on municipal property, the city attorney said Thursday.
San Jose Mayor Rejects Calls to Step Down
San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales Rejects Calls to Step Down After Indictment
San Jose mayor arrested after indictment
The mayor of San Jose, California, Silicon Valleys biggest city, surrendered to police on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him and a top aide amid a long-running probe of a city trash contract.
San Jose mayor arrested
Ron Gonzales on Thursday became the first mayor in San Joses history to be arrested for misconduct in office, transforming a political and ethics scandal over an obscure garbage contract into a full-blown criminal case that could send him to jail and has thrown City Hall into disarray in an election year.
San Jose mayor, aide arrested in garbage scheme
San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales was arrested Thursday on suspicion of six felony counts -- including accepting a bribe -- in connection with a garbage-contract scandal, prompting calls from five members of the City Council that he resign immediately as mayor of...
SAN FRANCISCO / Pride parade salute for an unlikely ally / Police officer who reached out in 1960s to be grand marshal
San Franciscos transgender community commemorated a pivotal moment in its history Thursday -- a little-known riot that happened 40 years ago. But the community is also thanking an unlikely ally: A straight cop who in the 1960s befriended transgender people...
SAN FRANCISCO / Parents say district not listening to requests over hearing-impaired / Specially trained teachers,
Frustrated parents of children with hearing loss say they have tried for two years to get the San Francisco Unified School District to improve classroom conditions so their kids can better understand the teachers. So far, the school district staff...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO / Act of brutality cited in police custody death / Suit filed by kin of man who died in scuffle
The mother of a man who died last year after struggling with South San Francisco police at a hotel has filed a federal civil rights suit against the department and the officers who restrained him with a body-wrap. Julio Armando Ayala, 26, died April 3,...
SAN FRANCISCO / SFSU students information stolen / School alerts 3,000 affected by theft of faculty laptop
San Francisco State University officials have put students and staff on alert because a thief broke into a faculty members car earlier this month and stole a laptop with nearly 3,000 Social Security numbers and names of former and current students....
Study: Stress building up along south San Andreas fault
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has not had a major rupture for more than 300 years, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake, a new study said on Wednesday.