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California has forced Uber to remove its self-driving vehicles from the road, canceling the company’s controversial pilot program in San Francisco after a week of embarrassing reports of traffic violations and repeated legal threats from state officials. The department of motor vehicles (DMV) announced late on Wednesday that it had revoked the registration of 16…
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request 4:02 PM PDT 9/24/2016 by Ryan Parker , Jonathan Handel IMDb “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked, I want to thank Gov. Brown and the bill’s author,…
AddThis Button Begin OAKLAND (KDKA) — Pittsburgh Police, Fire, EMS and Public Works crews worked to free a man who was trapped between two buildings Tuesday morning in Oakland. It all started around 2 a.m. on Forbes Avenue. According to police, a Pitt student became wedged between two buildings, in a gap that ranged from…
A brush fire that was sparked Friday afternoon exploded in size again on Sunday, scorching more than 30,000 acres north of Los Angeles and spreading an enormous plume of smoke for miles, fire officials said. Ash from burned brush fell miles away from the actual flames, and the large smoke plume spread through such a…
A rally by a small group of neo-Nazi demonstrators at the state Capitol on Sunday erupted into a violent clash with protesters that left at least 10 people injured – five of them stabbed – and closed down streets as more than 100 police in riot gear and on horseback intervened to halt the mayhem….
SAN FRANCISCO — A California judge who was criticized for handing down a short jail term in a case involving a sexual assault at Stanford University is facing a growing number of impediments both inside and outside the courtroom. Since Judge Aaron Persky of Santa Clara Superior Court sentenced a former champion swimmer for Stanford,…
Juan Hernandez’s blood on his shirt and his friend’s hat after Hernandez was assaulted outside a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, Calif. (Courtesy of Juan Hernandez) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Last Thursday, I left work about 5 p.m. and drove to the San Jose Convention Center to hear Donald Trump speak. I’ve been voting for…
Illustration: Jim Cooke Tuesday is the California primary, wherein Golden State voters will be asked to pick a replacement for long-beloved and mostly normal outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer. With the primary comes the Official Voter Information Guide and Candidate Statements, which is a perennially fun read, since California primary candidates are among our nation’s weirdest….
Photo The police at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Wednesday after two people were shot dead on campus. Credit KABC-7, via Associated Press Two men died in a shooting Wednesday inside a U.C.L.A. engineering building, prompting thousands of frightened students and staff members to hunker down or run for shelter as the police…
Story highlights The conditions of the two victims are not known Police are trying to clear campus buildings floor by floor Police received reports of an active shooter in or near the engineering building, Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im said. The conditions of the two victims were not immediately clear. Officials put the campus…