Students who were pepper-sprayed while sitting peacefully during a University of California, Davis protest last fall sued school officials Wednesday, claiming that campus police officers weren't trained on how to handle demonstrations properly.
The upcoming trial in San Francisco reads like a melodrama: The new sheriff in town is accused of grabbing and bruising his wife, a one-time Latin American TV starlet, in front of their toddler son just hours before the new year.
Oakland police took an armed suspect into custody after a brief search that forced the evacuation of an elementary school in East Oakland's Maxwell Park neighborhood Wednesday morning.