White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named ...
A Montana man died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Mason Robison, 38, was killed after a rock dislodged and severed his rope as he and a partner were about 2,300 feet above the ...
Prescription pills and over-the counter medications are required to have a child resistant safety cap, but in just the past decade, there has been a 30 percent increase in the number of children rushed to the emergency room after being accidentally poisoned by common medications. "The potential danger and risk ...
California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported legalizing marijuana to treat illness in 1996, but federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They ...
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said ...
A devastated father said Monday he had no idea why gunmen targeted his house, firing a barrage of bullets that killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV from a chair near a picture window. With his own wounded arm in a sling, Ernesto Campos came to look for his ...
Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns. It's the first time the governor acknowledged serious worries about the structural integrity of the $6.4 billion infrastructure project to build a new eastern ...
A man died early Monday from injuries he suffered in a fall from roof of a 4-story apartment building in San Francisco during the annual Bay to Breakers race. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Sunday at an apartment building near the intersection of Fell Street and Cole Avenue, police ...
A 5-year-old girl died after she was ejected from an SUV during a rollover crash in Richmond Monday morning, a police detective said. Richmond police received a report at 8:10 a.m. of a crash at Richmond Parkway and Hilltop Drive, Detective Nicole Abetkov said. Officers arrived and found the girl ...
The San Francisco Giants' prized pitching rotation took one more pounding. Barry Zito couldn't get on track in a second consecutive ineffective outing, and the Giants lost 5-0 to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday. A 1-5 road swing finished with another thud. The starting pitchers had a 9.82 ERA and ...
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