The sister of a former San Francisco crime lab technician warned the lab that she feared her sibling might be stealing cocaine used as evidence, police said Monday. Police acknowledged that Deborah Madden's sister told crime lab officials of Madden's susp...

Stanford, the last team to beat Connecticut, has earned its first No. 1 seed since 1998 in the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Connecticut's journey for the sixth perfect season in NCAA history will begin in Norfolk, Va.

The two Republicans seeking their party's nomination for governor sparred Monday over what kind of tax cuts would best stimulate California's faltering economy and whether the state should cut off services to illegal immigrants. The kickoff debate of the ...

A Sacramento business owner was surprised to find representatives from the Internal Revenue Service on his doorstep to collect unpaid taxes. But he was stunned to discover they were billing him for less than a nickel of back taxes. When two federal agents...

An Alameda County Judge said the city of Pleasanton's voter-approved cap on the number of residences in the city violates state law and must be changed. Voters had approved a ballot measure in 1996 capping the number of residences in the East Bay city at ...