KEN SWEET
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook officially moved forward with its plans Monday to create a new digital currency called Libra, despite several high-profile defections from the project and intense criticism from U.S. regulators and politicians.
The Libra Association, the nonprofit that will govern the currency, officially signed on 21 charter members on Monday at the organization's...
BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman will be back next season.
Roberts led the team to its seventh straight NL West title and a franchise-record 106 wins — second-most in the majors — but he's been criticized for his pitching decisions in losing Game 5...
JULIET WILLIAMS
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's top utility regulator blasted Pacific Gas and Electric on Monday for what she called "failures in execution" during the largest planned power outage in state history to avoid wildfires that she said, "created an unacceptable situation that should never be repeated."
The agency ordered a series of corrective actions, including a goal...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say a brazen thief stole a Salvador Dali etching valued at $20,000 from a San Francisco gallery, then walked off down the street with the work in his hand.
KGO-TV says the etching entitled "Burning Giraffe" vanished Sunday afternoon from an easel at Dennis Rae Fine Art off Union Square.
Gallery Director Angela Kellett says the...
CORONA (CNS) - A semi tractor-trailer rolled onto its side going southbound on Interstate 15 near Corona Monday, blocking several lanes and leaving the driver with minor injuries.
The crash happened about 2:40 p.m. on I-15 at El Cerrito Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The big rig hauling two trailers jackknifed in the No. 3 lane, completely blocking it...
ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — The bell doesn't ring until 8 a.m. at Lincoln High School, but by then freshman Briana Lopez has been awake for hours.
The 14-year-old leaves her house in Northern California at 6:30 each morning so she can get to school for a 7 a.m. marching band practice. On Mondays, she has a second practice...
Halle Kowalewski
Intern
The Empowerment Center hosted its yearly Strengths Summer Camp Showcase, June 28. The event brought the three-day Kids Strengths Camp to its conclusion with one final afternoon of celebration.
The Kids Strengths Camp, which was available to children ages nine to 17, helped children discover and celebrate their identity. Each child was given a strengths test which detailed their...
CORONA (CNS) - A brush fire that erupted Monday south of Corona damaged an unoccupied structure and burned just over an acre before it was contained.
The non-injury "Bedford Fire'' was reported about 1:10 p.m. on the northeast rim of the Cleveland National Forest, near Bedford Motor Way and Knabe Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
Multiple engine crews...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Several Christopher Columbus statues were vandalized with red paint and messages against the 15th century Italian navigator Monday when the U.S. holiday named for one of the first Europeans to reach the Americas was being celebrated.
A statue in Providence, Rhode Island, was splashed from head to toe Monday with red paint, and a sign reading...
HALF MOON BAY (AP) — A Northern California pumpkin hobbyist has won first place at the 46th annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off, setting a record for the largest in California.
Leonardo Urena of Napa won $15,000 Monday when his pumpkin logged 2,175 pounds (986 kilograms).
Weigh-off spokesman Timothy Beeman says Urena's pumpkin is the second largest in the contest's...