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Shooting at California’s Gilroy Garlic Festival Leaves 3 dead, 15 injured

July 29, 2019 7:25 amJuly 30, 2019 9:59 am

California’s annual garlic festival in beautiful Gilroy was halted Sunday by a gunman shooting into a crowd killing three, including a 6-year old boy. There were 15-18 injured, with hundreds of terrified visitors running for cover Sunday evening. The Gilroy...

Yolo County Murder Trial Reveals Back Story of Violence Against Women

July 25, 2019 3:30 pmJuly 25, 2019 3:43 pm

Rohail Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, is on trial for the murder of Sacramento resident Junying Lu, 51, in a Woodland, CA massage parlor last August. Last Friday in Yolo County Court, the defendant did not testify but the first...

Journalist or criminal? Judge quashes more than warrant in Adachi leak investigation

July 24, 2019 2:06 pm

Legally, it’s as if the warrant never existed Two weeks shy of executing a broad search warrant on the home and office of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott stood before cameras and a podium...

TV Reporter Drew Police to Journalist at Center of Leak Investigation

July 23, 2019 4:11 pm

A series of tweets coupled with a television news report set in motion a massive investigation into a leak of police documents shortly after famed San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died in February, according to newly-unsealed court documents released...

CG Interview: California Rep. Tom McClintock Talks Turkey

July 23, 2019 6:56 amJuly 23, 2019 3:59 pm

“If your country is going to hell, you stay and fight. If your state is going to hell, you flee to freer states.” U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA) has never shied away from the professional pursuit of representing the...

Berkeley Going Gender-Neutral in its City Code

July 20, 2019 5:06 pmJuly 20, 2019 5:08 pm

The City of Berkeley, CA announced it is removing all gendered language from city code. “The City Council adopted the first reading of the new ordinance on Tuesday, which would replace all instances of ‘he’ and ‘she’ in the city...

Judge quashes illegal warrant executed against San Francisco journalist, but Bryan Carmody’s fight continues

July 18, 2019 7:56 pmJuly 20, 2019 8:06 am

A judge in San Francisco tossed a search warrant she issued against a freelance journalist in May, saying police did not disclose to her that the target of the warrant worked in the news media industry. The ruling, handed down...