A rare general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to disruptions around the country ...

A last-minute protest failed to win two Senate-approved bills a chance to be voted on in the Assembly. The chair of the Black ...

Ricky Pearsall’s mother said in a Facebook post that the bullet that struck her son in the chest Saturday afternoon during an ...

This luscious fruit crisp is a perfect dessert for an early fall evening. Look to September’s harvest and gather late-season ...

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to use Monday’s joint campaign appearance in the industrial city of Pittsburgh with President Joe Biden to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically ...

MARTINEZ — A woman was sentenced to four years in prison for killing a man in a November 2020 crash in Contra Costa, records ...

The evacuation zone has been shifted to the north for the Coffee Pot Fire, burning at the west edge of Sequoia National Park. As of Monday, Sept. 2, the wildfire had burned 11,625 acres (18 square ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants are running out of time. They have 24 games remaining in the regular season. There ...

The sides did not agree to extend their deal by the Sept. 1 deadline and won't revise talks anytime soon.

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TODAY’S WORD — GIMBALS (GIMBALS: GIM-buls: Devices that permit a body to incline freely in any direction.) Average mark 15 words Time limit 30 minutes Can you find 19 or more words in GIMBALS? The ...

Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil ...