SF News Venture Capitalist's 'Six Californias' Plan Moves Forward, Is Still A Terrible Idea Venture Capitalist Tim Draper's plan to divide California into six states (including one just for Silicon Valley) got the OK to move forward from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen this week, despite
SF News A Challenger Rises: Former GOP Chair Announces Run Against Gavin Newsom Former SF Mayor, now California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has been busy this month, what with hanging out with the French President, pulling his support from CA's high-speed rail project, and encouraging everybody
SF News Sacramento Judge Puts High-Speed Rail On The Slow Track Yesterday in California's flood-prone capital city, a superior court judge twice slammed the brakes on plans for the state's high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the two rulings handed down
SF News Four Auto Burglars Busted Thanks To Instagram Photo Featuring $120 In Hamburgers Cops busted a minor auto burglary outfit in the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin, California last weekend after the four suspects posted an Instagram photo bragging about the $120 worth of Carl's Jr. they
SF News The Willie Brown Bridge Is Moving Forward Despite Growing Opposition, Common Sense Update: Sacramento's collective indifference has chosen to rename the bridge. On Monday, the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee voted 8-1 to move forward with a proposition to rename the western span of the
SF News The Willie Brown Bridge Must Be Stopped Since we first mentioned it last month the petition to rename the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton I has accumulated roughly 2,800 signatures in support of the effort. The Sacramento-based
SF News Man Throws Spear At Moving Vehicle, Poses For Primitive Mugshot 56-Year-Old Jeffrey Jones (pictured) of Sacramento was arrested earlier this week after he tried to hunt a moving vehicle with a spear. Judging by his Encino Man mugshot, the suspect may have mistaken
SF News Doctor Recommends Oral Sex As Remedy For Sensitive Gag Reflex A Sacramento surgeon has been reprimanded by the state medical board after reportedly suggesting his patient try giving her husband twice-weekly blowjobs to help fix her sensitive gag reflex. The anonymous patient was
SF News Sacramento Man (Allegedly) Kills 9-Year-Old Son With Hatchet A Sacramento man has been arrested in connection with the murder of his own 9-year-old son in a confusing and brutal incident that happened yesterday morning. His 12-year-old son survives and was home
SF News Sacramento Woman Finds Stranger Passed Out On Her Couch After Stealing Chinese Takeout In whacky Sacramento crime news: one 25-year-old suspected deadbeat has been arrested after breaking into a woman's home, collecting a stack of valuables, eating some of her Chinese food and then passing out
SF News Teacher Tragically Killed While Photographing Train A Sacramento teacher was tragically struck and killed by a Union Pacific train on Saturday afternoon. Kathy Carlisle, 52, a wife and mother of three, was a popular teacher at St. Francis High
SF News Video: Black Friday Brawl Erupts At Suburban Sacramento Shopping Mall It didn't take long for things to go south when the Roseville Galleria outside of Sacramento opened the floodgates to throngs of punchy Black Friday shoppers last week. After the doors opened at
SF News State Parks Director Resigns After Investigation Reveals $54 Million In Hidden Funds A new investigation has discovered that the California Parks and Recreation Department kept nearly $54 million in surplus funds hidden for almost 12 years, even while budget cuts threatened to close parks across
SF News Gavin Newsom Describes Sacramento: "I Just, Ugh, God" The life of a politically irrelevant, celebrity Lieutenant Governor can be be tough sometimes. Between finding time to interview Lance Armstrong and hanging out at fundraising galas, the Lite Gov. barely has any
SF News Ladies-Only Street Brawl Erupts Over Facebook Posts A group of more than 30 women broke into a massive street fight in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights neighborhood on Sunday, reportedly because someone involved had pre-planned and posted details about the fight
SF News Heading To Lake Tahoe? Take Alternate Route As I-80 Is Shutdown If you're heading to Lake Tahoe today beware that, as of this morning, the Yolo Causeway has been shutdown, casing a massive backup. Police have closed the stretch of I-80 as they search
SF News Finally, A Literal Reason Why Sacramento Stinks If you've visited Sacramento recently only to take a deep whiff and wonder, "Damn, they've got some skunk weed up here," you would be half right. See, hordes of horny skunks have come
SF News Sacramento Rape Hoax Wife Sentenced The Sacramento prison psychologist who, along with a sinister friend, faked her own home-invasion rape, all in a failed effort to get her husband to move them to a better neighborhood, was sentenced
SF News California Is Now Free To Raid $1.7 Billion In Redevelopment Funds [Update] The California Supreme Court ruled this morning that the state is free to eliminate redevelopment agencies across California and take $1.7 billion of their funds under Sacramento-approved legislation passed earlier this year.
SF News Woman Charged With Faking Rape For Better Zip Code In a storyline ripped from a rejected Desperate Housewives spec, Laurie Ann Martinez, a psychologist at Folsom Prison, was charged with faking her own rape in order to get her stubborn husband to
Arts & Entertainment Gov. Jerry Brown's Amazingly Passive-Aggressive State Senate Memo Well, now this is just delightful: Jerry Brown's passive aggressive note to the California State Senate back in September of this year, in which the Governor explains his support for SB 769 but
SF News PETA to Use 'Microwaved Baby' Story for Billboard Promoting Veganism Known for controversial and shocking methods of getting their word across, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) plans on erecting a billboard in Sacramento featuring the image of a person about
SF News 26 Teachers Arrested in Sacramento While Protesting Education Cuts Hot on the heels of news that San Francisco USD will be laying off 139 educators at the end of the school year, comes a report from Sacramento that over two dozen teachers
SF News Meanwhile, In Newsom's Office... Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom hosts a wild party in his office with students from St. Vincent de Paul School in San Francisco. "Giving them an overview of our state government," he says. Like
SF News Jerry Brown Won't Reach Budget Deal On Time Much to no one's surprise, Governor Jerry Brown admitted this morning that he might not reach a budget deal by Thursday, "his self-imposed 60-day deadline," even though floor votes in the Legislature are
