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Schwarenegger hammers paparazzi, recalling his own brush
More than a dozen years after Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mercedes-Benz was ambushed in Santa Monica by two rowdy paparazzi, sparking their arrests, the actor-turned-governor is having his say.
Whitman on San Francisco GOP voter rolls in 1980s, paper says
SAN FRANCISCO - Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman was registered as a Republican voter in San Francisco from 1982 to 1985, city records show, contrary to a report last month that there was no evidence of her registration when she lived in the city in the 1980s.
Jerry Brown's radio career may be problem now
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - More than a decade before Jerry Brown's current incarnation as undeclared gubernatorial front-runner, he hit the airwaves of liberal Berkeley radio station KPFA five days a week to speak his mind.
Calif. used-car buyers to get new protections
California used-car buyers can go shopping armed with new protections Jan. 1.
That's when two new laws, Senate Bill 95 and Assembly Bill 647, take effect.
SB 95, the California Car Buyers Protection Act, requires auto dealers to pay off outstanding liens before selling or trading a used car.
Creeping Hayward fault in Calif. may ease quake tension
SAN FRANCISCO - The Hayward Fault is creeping, and that could be a good sign.
Along many segments of the fault, from the hills of Oakland's Montclair Village to the Chapel of the Chimes in Union City, scientists have been busy this week measuring the fault's tiny underground motions to learn more about that most dangerous of all the seismic strands that run through the Bay Area.
Hooded sweat shirts, sagging pants banned at Calif. mall
Beginning in November, Arden Fair mall in Sacramento will ban shoppers wearing hooded sweatshirts that hide their faces and sagging pants that don't hide what they should.
Californians favor raising bar on constitutional changes
Frustrated California voters think a state government overhaul is needed, but a majority believes it shouldn't be so easy for them to change the state's constitution at the ballot box, a new Field Poll has found.
Raising the ballot box threshold for approving a constitutional amendment from a majority to two-thirds was favored by 56 percent in the poll and opposed by 36 percent.
In California, voters disgusted with Schwarenegger, legislature
SAN FRANCISCO - California voters have never thought less of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday.
Despite that, a strong majority of poll respondents favor the governor's move to call a special session of the Legislature to deal with California's water crisis and tax reform issues.
Calif. woman may owe $2.8 million lottery win to a mistake
Oops -- Josefina Sineriz may owe her $2.8 million in lottery winnings last winter to a mistake by the California Lottery's staff.
The 61-year-old Bakersfield woman was given the opportunity to win the top prize by an inadvertent transposition of contestants' names.
University of California campuses brace for walkout
University of California administrators say they want to keep things running as smoothly as possible Thursday -- the first day of school at many campuses -- when many faculty, staff members and students are expected to walk out of classes, host rallies and stage a systemwide labor strike for technical employees.
