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Two of the three jurors dismissed from the Ghost Ship trial broke court order and could be held in contempt for misconduct, Judge Trina Thompson said Tuesday.

Three jurors have been dismissed and replaced with alternates in the trial of two men charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 Oakland warehouse fire.

Twin infants were found by a dumpster Tuesday in Fairfield, and one did not survive, according to police. Now the mother may face criminal charges.

Eight people injured when a former Army sharpshooter with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder plowed his car at high speed into them in Sunnyvale have been identified in a criminal complaint.

The mother of a Northern California man arrested after he allegedly plowed into a group of pedestrians, injuring eight, says her son is an Army vet who experienced post-traumatic stress disorder while serving in Iraq.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived late Thursday at the site of a natural gas explosion in San Francisco that sent flames into the sky for hours and damaged five buildings.

Massive flames from a gas explosion destroyed five buildings in San Francisco’s busy Geary Boulevard Wednesday afternoon — including a popular Chinese restuarant — and prompted evacuations within a one-mile radius of the fire zone but resulted in no injuries, firefighters said.

Jason Burnett said he detected a faint feeling of disappointment from his wife when California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned him for an old drug crime less than two weeks after the couple lost their home in the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century.

A mysterious object seen in the California sky late Wednesday sent a flurry of people searching for answers. NASA confirmed Thursday that it was a meteor after the bright light in the sky got everyone speculating what it could have been. The space agency said the meteor went down in the ocean.

Facebook gave some companies such as Apple, Amazon and Yahoo more extensive access to users’ personal data, effectively exempting them from the company’s usual privacy rules, according to a New York Times report.

A Tesla Model S caught fire Tuesday in a business parking lot in Los Gatos, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, then reportedly reignited hours later at a tow yard in Campbell.

NPR’s “Morning Edition” reports author Evan Thomas found William Rehnquist’s letter to Sandra Day O’Connor while researching his upcoming book, “First.” The two dated while students at Stanford Law School in the early 1950s. They had broken up but remained friends.

Law enforcement officials in Sacramento on Friday announced the arrest of a 58-year-old Benicia man suspected of being the NorCal rapist who terrorized victims for a 15-year period beginning in 1991. Cheryl Hurd reports.

Law enforcement officials in Sacramento on Friday announced the arrest of a 58-year-old Benicia man suspected of being the NorCal rapist who terrorized victims for a 15-year period beginning in 1991. Suspect Roy Charles Waller was arrested in Berkeley while on his way to work on Thursday after investigators confirmed his DNA to match the serial rapist who committed “horrific...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday announced charges of violations of human rights, worker rights, tax evasion and possession of illegal weapons against owners and operators of daycare facilities in the Bay Area. Fifty-nine criminal charges were filed against four members of the Gamos family who owned and operated Rainbow Bright, which has four adult care facilities and two...

Employees at a San Jose Wells Fargo branch are celebrating their Mega Millions win in what some say is a rather unusual way. All 11 winners work for the bank on Branham Lane, where customers poured in Monday to congratulate the lucky winners.

After over a week, the winner of the $534 million lottery jackpot has been revealed, except it’s more than one person who got lucky. A Santa Clara County office pool with 11 members showed up to the Lottery’s East Bay District Office in Hayward on July 25 with the Mega Millions ticket matching the numbers of the largest jackpot in...

Someone in San Jose became a multimillionaire Tuesday after buying a Mega Millions ticket with all six winning numbers, according to the California Lottery.

Twitter on Thursday advised all users to change their passwords after the company discovered a bug that stored unmasked passwords. The social media company said that said the bug was fixed and that there was “no indication of breach or misuse by anyone.” It urged its more than 300 million users to change their passwords on all services that use...

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster was charged with felony domestic violence Thursday for allegedly attacking his girlfriend in February at their Los Gatos home, the Santa Clara County’s District Attorney Office announced.