Marin County (California)

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A judge ruled that condemned serial killer Rodney Alcala, who was sentenced to death in Orange County for five murders, can be extradited to New York to stand trial in two other murder cases. Rodney Alcala, 68, was indicted in New...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A freelance photographer is charged with four counts of murder in the deaths of four northern California women dating back more than three decades, authorities said Tuesday. Joseph Naso, 77, was arrested Monday by Marin County...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Sean Penn and Robin Wright are officially divorced, according to court records. A judgment ending the on-again, off-again couple's 14-year marriage was entered July 22 in the Bay Area. Wright filed for divorce last August, the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- DNA ties a California death row inmate convicted in the killings of seven hikers to the unsolved 1979 slaying of a jogger in a San Francisco park, police said Tuesday. Cold-case Inspector Joe Toomey said DNA evidence in the stabbing of...

SACRAMENTO -- John Cruz, the appointments secretary for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, lives hundreds of miles from the state Capitol, where his staff scrutinizes candidates for California's many boards and commissions. When Cruz works there, he goes by...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man suspected of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and another person at the entrance to a busy San Francisco Bay toll bridge was arrested early Wednesday after an overnight manhunt. Nathaniel Burris, 46, of Richmond, Calif., was...

The National Aquarium Institute has tapped a California aquarium industry veteran to be the organization's next CEO. John C. Racanelli, 55, will be expected to increase the ocean conservation and educational messages delivered through the National...

As Tara Hoffman gears up for her 20th high school reunion this summer, she's looking forward less to memory lane than to shedding the snobby reputation that got her voted "most likely to marry the next Donald Trump." Now a working mother of two with a...

To make sure your road trip doesn't hit the skids, check out these apps: Fuel assistance Subscription app SmartFuel can help you find cheap gas nearby or along your route — including at Costco — using Oil Price Information Service data to...

After 14 years in the making, the long-rumored and oft-delayed remake of the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland is about to become a reality. Walt Disney Imagineering's Tom Fitzgerald has been there since the beginning, writing the attraction's original...

Richard Steinheimer, a master of railroad photography whose poetic images documented a half-century of trains and the landscape of the American West, has died. He was 81. Steinheimer died May 4 at his Sacramento home of Alzheimer's disease, said his...

Employers should have the right to dismiss an employee if that worker’s pot problem is affecting the work performance, even if that person only smokes medical marijuana away from work. A bill by state Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat who represents Marin...