California governor Gavin Newsom is going to suspend the death penalty in his state. This means that for 737 prisoners who are in death row in California, the sentence will not be executed for the time being,…
Three Americans who managed to prevent an attack in the Thalys from Amsterdam to Paris in August 2015 were given French nationality. The three were born in the American Sacramento...
The large forest fires in the American state of California have now claimed more than twenty lives. On Saturday, another fourteen bodies were found, the local authorities report. Dozens of people are missing.
A fast-growing forest fire rages across California and currently covers more than 30 square kilometers. Several regions have been evacuated, people are honking in traffic jams and at least five people have suffered burns.
California was the first US state to pass a law requiring listed companies to have at least one woman on the board from the end of 2019.
A large wildfire rages in the north of the American state of California. The flames even jumped over the Sacramento River and were so fast around them that around 38,000 people under evacuation orders were forced to leave their homes.
A 25-year-old drunk American driver returned to his burning car after a traffic accident to light his cigarette.
A missing American air force officer was found after 35 years under a false name in California, reports American media. William Howard Hughes had access to state secrets and disappeared in 1983 when he had to leave for the Netherlands for work with NATO.
The former policeman who is suspected of being the Golden State Killer appeared Friday before the judge. The 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo made it clear that he understands the charges.
The American police have come across the so-called Golden State Killer by comparing DNA of the crime scene with genetic profiles on websites that are used to trace family trees. In this way a match was found with a relative of the suspect, reports the public prosecutor.
Twelve murders, forty-five rapes. California sighed for decades under sadistic practices with bizarre details. The arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo (72) is a breakthrough in a case with many open wounds and exposed nerves.
With a new indictment against the state, the legal battle between California and the US government is rising. The Department of Justice started a lawsuit Monday to get a Californian law that would limit the possibility of selling land in the state.
A nurse who said on Facebook that a man had been shot dead by the police was dismissed in the hospital where she works.
In the United States, noise has arisen because agents have shot an unarmed black man. For days there have been protests in the city of Sacramento. Research by order of the relatives shows that Stephon Clark was shot eight times in the back and the side.
The California police are still trying to figure out how it is possible that the 49-year-old skier- who disappeared from the snowy New York a week ago- was found six days later in warm California. The man was confused and- perhaps even stranger- had his ski suit on.
The man who shot four people on Tuesday in northern California had killed his wife the night before. The police of the place Rancho Tehama told the newspaper Los Angeles Times this Wednesday.
The US state policymakers of California have declared the state of emergency by an outbreak of hepatitis A, of which about 18 people died. Homeless people are caught in camps.
In California, a forest fire blocks one of the access roads to the famous Yosemite Natural Park. Highway 41 was closed on Thursday due to the fire seas between Oakhurst and the national park. Over three hundred firemen fight the flames. Their work is hampered by the summer heat and the drought.
19-year-old Rosa Dominquez from the US state of California has won two major lottery prizes in a week time. First she won $ 555,555 with a $ 5 scratch card she bought at a gas station. A few days later, she fell again with a 5-dollar scratch card. The second time she won 100,000 dollars.
A woman who wanted to make a selfie on the highest bridge in the US state of California had to pay for it almost with her life. She was in one of the beams of the bridge climb when she lost her balance and nearly fell twenty meters down. The woman managed to survive the fall. She broke several bones.
Uber is now perfectly legal to be self-propelled cars testing in home state of California. The company has in the permits. Uber drove already with the customized Volvos, though it was not then. When the state threatened to intervene, the test runs Uber moved to Arizona.
Uber wants to resume the test self-driving cars in California. The test cars were removed in December from the street because Uber she had not registered with the state. The paperwork is now regulated and therefore wants Uber return to his home state.
Now that the worst danger is over for the Oroville dam, according to the California media thousands of evacuated residents returned home. 'The Sacramento Bee' reported Wednesday that life in the city directly under the dam slowly regains its normal course. Supermarkets have opened the doors and the transport has started again. But there is also a new storm front approaching.
Prominent leaders in California parliament have angrily reacted to the presidential decree of Donald Trump to build a high wall to begin along the border with Mexico.
One of the most famous trees in the United States collapsed after heavy rain storms.
In the US states of California, Massachusetts and Nevada voted a majority of voters Tuesday for legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Arizona voters turned down the legalization.
An American journalist and activist was shot while she held an interview with a man protesting against a controversial oil pipeline project in the US state of North Dakota. She filmed the incident itself.
Thanks to Facebook, many Americans registered as voters for the upcoming presidential election. US users in September, a call to register. That led to a spike in registrations, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
In the US state of California, victims of sex crimes more time to report. Wednesday signed a law allowing lapsed limitation period of 10 years. The reason for the new law, the lawsuit against the comedian Bill Cosby.
Horrifying images of a bus crash in California. A tour bus rammed at an exit a large pile under a road, causing the bus for nearly three quarters lengthwise in half was split. In the accident were certainly regrettable five dead and several wounded. There would have put thirty passengers in the bus.
