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Pope changes death penalty teaching, now 'inadmissible'

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching about the death penalty, saying in a new policy published Thursday that it is always …

 

Rebound from wildfires captured in Hall of Flowers at Sonoma County Fair

In years past, the Sonoma County Fair’s eponymous Hall of Flowers has adopted a creative litany of themes: cinema, dinosaurs, barnyard life.

 

City records: Petaluma firefighter admitted having sex in firehouses

A firefighter with the Petaluma Fire Department has resigned after admitting to having consensual sex while on duty at least 10 times at the agency’s …

 

Smith: Caltrans’ man pulls off a daring fire rescue

Early on in the rage of Mendocino County’s Ranch fire, Honalee Newman feared it would kill her three children and her.A medical imaging manager in …

 

New blaze breaks out south of Hopland; could grow to 1,000 acres

Firefighters struggled to gain ground Wednesday on the two wildfires threatening shoreline communities in Lake County even as new fires broke out in Mendocino County.

 

Longtime Cardinal Newman principal reassigned in campus shake-up

Graham Rutherford, the longtime principal who led his campus when the October wildfires burned Cardinal Newman High School, has been removed from his job.In a …

 

Authorities continue arresting men who don’t belong in Lake County fire areas

Lake County sheriff’s deputies, with help from law enforcement patrolling fire evacuation zones, have arrested at least 16 people since Monday, a sheriff’s official said …

 

Pears and hot asphalt spilled in wreck closing Lakeville Highway

A three-vehicle accident involving two semi-trucks and one SUV caused the closure of Lakeville Highway south of Petaluma around noon Wednesday. One semi overturned in …

 

'We're not on the side of nature': Gov. Brown offers grim view of California's fiery future

As fire crews struggled to gain containment on more than a dozen wildfires raging across California Wednesday, Gov.

 

Migrant child reportedly dies after release from ICE detention facility

The American Immigration Lawyers Association said Wednesday that a migrant toddler died soon after being released from an U.S.

 

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