It’s not unusual for the waters off Santa Cruz to be filled with surfers trying to escape the demands of everyday life in the freedom and solitude of the sea.
The former leader of a once-influential Oakland community group was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for ordering the killing of three men, including a journalist who was working on a story about the financial troubles of the organization.
The man who killed journalist Chauncey Bailey by shooting him three times at point-blank range while he was walking to work in downtown Oakland four years ago was sentenced Friday to 25 years in state prison.
At New Day For Children, girls who had been forced into prostitution recover in a remote, unmarked location in northern California, far from the life that brought the girls there.
On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world united for the fourth year in a row to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘World's Largest Swimming Lesson’.
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