A 19-year-old who disappeared from his family’s California home nearly three years ago has been found in Utah, to the astonishment and relief of his parents, who feared he might never see him again. Connerjack Oswalt was shivering and cold when sheriff’s deputies passed him sleeping Saturday at a convenience store in Summit County, known … Read more
A Southern California shoe store owner opened fire on two shoplifters, police said, but mistakenly shot a 9-year-old girl about to be photographed with a bunny rabbit. Mall Easter. The store owner fled the state and was arrested in Nevada, authorities said Wednesday. It is the 9-year-old girl who was injured yesterday when a store … Read more
CNN — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that a law requiring public companies headquartered in California to diversify their boards of directors violates the state’s constitution, according to court documents. On Friday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Terry Green sided with Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that filed a lawsuit arguing the … Read more
Frederick Newhall Woods, one of three men who hijacked a school bus and kidnapped 26 children in Chowchilla, Calif., in 1976, was recommended for parole on Friday. The recommendation came during Woods’ 18th attempt to win parole for what has been called the biggest kidnapping in US history, having been denied 17 times. On July … Read more
A 113-pound mountain lion was tranquilized on Tuesday after wandering through an industrial park and entering an office building in Southern California, police and wildlife officials said. Dramatic video showed the cat running through the area and officers chasing the animal outside a business window, CBS Los Angeles reported. The puma was on Irvine’s property … Read more
Urban water users and farmers in California who depend on supplies from state reservoirs will receive less than expected this year as fears of a third straight dry year come true, officials said Friday. State. Water agencies that serve 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland will get just 5% of what they requested … Read more
The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said it solved the murder of a woman in 1988, but the suspect died in a house fire in Indiana more than two decades ago. Genealogy DNA testing linked the suspect to Diane Dahn, 29, who was stabbed to death in her Santee apartment, county sheriff’s investigators said at a … Read more
A Northern California man who admitted removing two bear cubs from their den and notified authorities after he was unable to care for them has pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited species, wildlife officials say . Cody Dylon Setzer, 29, and an unidentified co-worker who cooperated with authorities pulled the bears from their den … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California chapter of NAACP push to get rid of National anthemcalling the song racist and anti-black, reports CBS station KOVR-TV. “This song is fake,” chapter president Alice Huffman told the station. “He should never have been there, and just as we didn’t have him before 1931, he won’t kill us if … Read more
new York CNN Business — No matter where you go in the United States, gas prices are uncomfortably high. Filling up a car for $60, $70, or $80 is a painful experience no matter where you live. But not all Americans experience the same pain at the pump. For example, you might think California drivers … Read more