Stagecoach country music festival announces 2022 lineup

The Stagecoach Music Festival 2022 lineup includes headliners Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs.

Officers sue Palo Alto over Black Lives Matter mural

Police officers in Palo Alto sued the city for a Black Lives Matter mural, arguing that it is harassment and discrimination against law enforcement.

California parents capture sex offender standing in 5-year-old girl’s bedroom, authorities say

A California mother and father subdued and duct-taped a registered sex offender who they caught standing in their 5-year-old daughter’s bedroom early Tuesday after he broke in through a window, authorities said.

Act of kindness: California homeless man returns stolen cash, keys to rightful owner

Richard Weisgal said it all began last Friday at a 24 Hour Fitness in downtown Walnut Creek. Weisgal had finished his workout and went to his locker and saw that someone had broken the lock.

East Bay football star killed at Butte County campground

An East Bay high-school football player was found dead at a campground in Butte County near Lake Oroville over the Fourth of July weekend, the victim of a homicide, authorities said Wednesday.

Fairfield homeowner shoots and kills intruder with .357 Magnum

At around 8:30 a.m., a man knocked on the door, kicked the door open, and made entry into the house on Vintage Valley Drive after receiving no response, Fairfield Councilmember Catherine Moy, wrote on her Facebook page.

Death penalty off the table for man suspected in rapper Pop Smoke's murder

Prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against the man who was charged in rapper Pop Smoke’s killing. The 20-year-old rapper was gunned down at a Hollywood Hills home in February 2020.

California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations

California is poised to approve reparations up to $25,000 to victims who were among the thousands of people — some as young as 13 — who decades ago were sterilized because state officials deemed them unfit to have children.

Surveillance video shows armed suspects attempting to rob news crew in Oakland by City Hall

The news crew was standing in front of the city government building in the 100 block of 14th Street on June 28 at 3:05 p.m. when two men with guns demanded their camera at gunpoint, police said.

Woman found beaten to death, bound, gagged, rolled in blanket inside her home in South LA

Fatima Johnson was found beaten to death inside her South Los Angeles home over the weekend. She was bound, gagged with duct tape and her body had been rolled up in a blanket.