Details continue to trickle out in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case, and we are beginning to see some of the details of the "relationship" between Dugard and her kidnappers, Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 55. Not only was she his captive and the mother to two of his children, she was apparently a key player in Garrido's specialty printing business.
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It's a page out of the book of struggling families, or families with a junked-up garage. It's a garage sale, and on Friday begins what's being billed as the Great California Garage Sale.
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Three separate wildfires have prompted California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency in two counties: Los Angeles and Monterey. Wildfires in both counties threatened several homes as the blazes spread.
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Atwater, CA City Councilman Gary Frago, who was in hot water earlier over racist jokes sent by him via email, is in boiling water now. Additional emails uncovered by the Merced Sun-Star indicate even more egregious emails.
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Michigan prison officials should know within a month whether California will send inmates to the Muskegon Correctional Facility, keeping it from closing. The medium security prison was recently visited by California officials, who proclaimed great interest in the site.
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A Salinas, CA company is issuing a romaine lettuce recall because of fear it may be contaminated with salmonella. The recall is limited to one lot of lettuce, but that amounts to 22,000 cartons.
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The voters of city of Oakland, CA, have approved the first tax on medical marijuana in the country. The city has four dispensaries that took in about $19.7 million in revenue in the last fiscal year.
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Foreclosures are soaring in California with 473,652 foreclosed homes and thousands more nearing foreclosure. California continues to have the highest number of foreclosures regardless of the government intervention loan modification programs.
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California, which began issuing IOUs on July 2nd, tried on Thursday moves to shore up confidence in those IOUs. This came as banks prepared to stop accepting the IOUs, after today.
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In Sacramento, CA, Isabelle Jackson Elementary fifth grade teacher Crystal Defanti gave her students a lesson in the birds and the bees, starring herself, without intending to.
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A 6.0 earthquake struck Friday morning in the Gulf of California off the western coast of Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
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Most people think of California when they think of earthquakes. However, other parts of the U.S. have faults as well, including Delaware, which experienced an earthquake today.
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