California Today: California Today: A Pulitzer Brings Bittersweet Pride to Santa Rosa
Thursday: Governor Brown orders troops to the border, Qualcomm starts to slim down and a grim look at the Bay Area should the Big One hit.
Police Kill Black Man With Barrage of Bullets Outside California Walmart
Diante Yarber was shot dead in his car in the parking lot. “This is the worst case of excessive force that I’ve ever seen,” the Yarber family’s lawyer said.
As Opioid Prescriptions Fall, Prescriptions for Drugs to Treat Addiction Rise
New data suggests progress in efforts to curb the epidemic but raises questions about whether tightened prescribing may be leading some people to heroin and fentanyl.
Explorer: At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens
The sprawling Nevada wilderness spared by the Trump administration offers desert vistas, petroglyphs and the celebrated “City” sculpture. Getting there really is part of the fun.
Sully Was Impressed by Southwest Pilot’s Emergency Landing
Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot during the Miracle on the Hudson in 2009, felt a twinge of recognition at the news of Tammie Jo Shults’s calm handling of a midair crisis.
Would You Pass the Green Card Marriage Interview?
Would your relationship stand up to the scrutiny of the American government? Take the test.
Trump Wants to Close Trade Gap, but Leaves Export Agency in Limbo
The Export-Import Bank has been effectively crippled, and big business groups are angry that the board of the bank has been left completely vacant.
A Marriage Used to Prevent Deportation. Not Anymore.
For decades, marriage to a United States citizen has been a virtual guarantee of legal residency. It isn’t anymore under the Trump administration.
Cubans in Florida Have Waited to See Castros Go, but No One Is Celebrating
There’s a sense of wistfulness among aging Cuban exiles in Miami: Cuba will no longer be led by a Castro. But they don’t expect real change anytime soon.
Overlooked No More: Harriott Daley, the Capitol’s First Telephone Operator
Daley, who became a switchboard operator in 1898, made sure members of Congress were just a phone call away from their constituents.
Syracuse Fraternity Suspended for ‘Extremely Racist’ Video
Theta Tau members’ actions were “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people with disabilities,” the university chancellor said.
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