SACRAMENTO — Victims after victim lined up on Tuesday to describe Joseph DeAngelo as a “sick monster,” “horrible man” and “subhuman” who stole their innocence and changed their lives during a more than decade-long reign of rape and murder that earned him the nickname of the Golden State Killer. The...
Victims: PG&E Still Has Rickety Power Line Near Paradise
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric is still operating a rickety power line near the one that ignited a 2018 wildfire that wiped out the Northern California city of Paradise and killed 85 people, according to an expert inspection conducted as part of a legal claim. In an inspection...
Kings County Deputy Kills Man Who Attacked 3 With Machete
HANFORD — A sheriff's deputy fatally shot a machete-wielding man Tuesday after he attacked three people near Hanford, authorities said. Deputies responded to a call just before 8 a.m. at a home on 1st Place and Houston Avenue in Home Garden just before 8 a.m. They found a woman and...
1 Dead, 5 Wounded in Shooting on Greyhound Bus on Grapevine
LEBEC — A gunman killed a 51-year-old woman from Colombia and wounded five others before dawn Monday on a packed Greyhound bus traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco and the bus driver somehow managed to get the gunman off the bus, the California Highway Patrol said. The suspect was...
Vanessa Bryant Statement: 'We Are Completely Devastated'
Vanessa Bryant made her first public comment Wednesday since the helicopter crash that killed husband Kobe Bryant, one of their daughters and seven other people, taking to Instagram to thank people for the global outpouring of support since the tragedy. She also announced the formation of a fund to help support the other...
'I'm Being Raped': Weinstein Accuser Details Alleged Assault
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein accuser Mimi Haleyi testified Monday that weeks after arriving in New York to work for one of his shows, she found herself fighting in vain as the once-revered showbiz honcho pushed her onto a bed and sexually assaulted her, undeterred by her kicks and pleas...
Judge Sets Preliminary Hearing in 'Golden State Killer' Case
SACRAMENTO — A California judge on Wednesday set a May hearing to decide if prosecutors have enough evidence to go to trial against a man suspected being the notorious "Golden State Killer" who eluded capture for decades. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Steve White ordered the preliminary hearing for Joseph...
Convicted Child Molester Killed by Fellow Inmate at Corcoran Prison
CORCORAN — One inmate fatally struck a fellow prisoner and critically wounded another at Corcoran's state prison officials said Friday. The slain inmate was David Bobb, 48, who was serving a life sentence from San Diego County for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old. They said...
Local US Attorney's Office Collected $104 Million for Victims in 2019
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for California's Eastern District collected $104,469,755 in criminal and civil actions during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2019, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said Thursday. Of this amount, $78,774,806 was in civil actions and $25,694,949 was in criminal actions. A Look at the Big Recoveries The...
Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit Abused Boy 1,000 Times Around World
CHICAGO — A globe-trotting Jesuit priest with ties to Mother Teresa sexually abused an American boy “more than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries,” a lawsuit filed Monday in California state court in San Francisco alleges. In the lawsuit and in interviews with The Associated Press, Robert J. Goldberg,...