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Sheriffs jealously guard their independence, but the days of frontier justice are over, and there is a growing push for meaningful public oversight....

We remember the last time we sat inside a restaurant....

A Press Democrat reader ponders Pi Day during the pandemic, and more....

A plan to log 224 acres of redwood and Douglas fir trees along the Russian River in Guerneville is just one of several timber harvests proposed or scheduled to take place this year in Sonoma and Mendocino counties....

American politics feels quieter with Joe Biden in the White House. It's easy to go days without hearing anything the president has said, unless you go looking. But the relative quiet is deceptive....

Small business owners across the Bay Area who have been struggling through the pandemic are welcoming the possibility of receiving relief checks....

Last year, I went to visit some of my carbon emissions....

Last year, Amazon said it had blocked more than 1 million products from its platform that inaccurately promised to cure or protect against the coronavirus....

The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the "grave threat" it poses to U.S. national security are widely known. Nimble, highly skilled criminal hackers believed to operate out of Eastern Europe hacked dozens of companies and go...

Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela has begun rationing diesel to truckers, four transport sector sources told Reuters, as low domestic refining output and scarce imports amid U.S. sanctions squeeze fuel supplies. Frustrated truckers block...

The message to White House senior staff as President Joe Biden's cornerstone legislative proposal nears completion is simple, if blunt: there is "absolutely no room for complacency." A two-page memo, drafted by White House senior adviser Anita...

So, what's motivating the rush to unmask? It's not economics. As I said, the costs of mask-wearing are trivial....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A British-Iranian woman held in an Iranian prison for five years on......

The hardtop station wagon never sold well but was a head-turner that got rave reviews for its styling....

As one who covered Vernon Jordan off and on for several decades, I remember how he defied easy labels. You had to get to know him. There was a lot about him to know....

TORONTO, March 5, 2021 /CNW/ - SEIU Healthcare, CUPE, and Unifor to announce 'Respect Us.' campaign on behalf of the unions' 175,000 combined health care members across Ontario....

A third vaccine has been approved for use against the coronavirus as infection rates continue to fall in the Bay Area and pandemic restrictions continue to ease....

(Bloomberg) -- Saudi stocks rose the most in the Gulf, tracking a surge in oil prices after OPEC+ shocked markets with a decision to keep supply in check. Saudi Aramco saw the biggest gain in six months.The Tadawul All Share Index climbed as much as 1.4%,...

Moderna Inc said on Saturday it has agreed to supply the Philippines government with 13 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to begin in mid-2021. Moderna said it expected to reach a separate deal with the Philippines government and ...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been jailed in Iran for almost five years, has had her ankle monitor removed, according to a British lawmaker. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been under house arrest because of the coronavirus p...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been jailed in Iran for almost five years, has had her ankle monitor removed, according to a British lawmaker. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been under house arrest because of the coronavirus p...

Activists say the worker for Aung San Suu Kyi's party was beaten after being arrested....

Human rights groups called on the Philippine government to investigate what they said was the use of...

The lawyer of an Iranian-British national detained in Iran on widely refuted spying charges has told The Associated Press that she has finished her five-year sentence, although it remains unclear whether she can leave the country. Iran's semiofficial ...

The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen on Sunday said it had launched air strikes on military sites of the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Sanaa and several other provinces, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television channel reported. The coalition said its ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday his government would iron out what he described...

Sunday will be mostly sunny, but still rather cold as we won't even get into the 40s....

Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman and Never Trump conservative who hosts "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, recently commented that the 2021 GOP ranges from those who are very, very conservative — such as Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming &md...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Lawyer tells AP that Iranian-British national finishes 5-year......

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Lawyer tells AP that Iranian-British national finishes 5-year sentence in spy case, though unclear if she can leave Iran. The post Lawyer tells AP that Iranian-British national finishes 5-year sentence in spy case, though unclear...

An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked for life sentences for two American students charged with murdering a police officer in an alleged drug deal gone wrong. The two Americans, Finnegan Lee Elder, 21 and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, have been accused of ...

An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked for life sentences for two American students charged with murdering a police officer in an alleged drug deal gone wrong. The two Americans, Finnegan Lee Elder, 21 and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, have been accused of ...

Made redundant from her job at Lockheed Martin at the age of 55, Clemmie Perry started thinking she needed to find a hobby. She turned to golf, but was immediately struck by the lack of diversity. So ever since Perry picked up her first set of clubs in 20...

Spanish-language content is plentiful on Facebook, but here's the bad news: According to researchers, it isn't moderated to the degree that English-language content is — and therefore, journalist Kari Paul reports in The Guardian, it is easi...

As if knowing what its audience wanted, 'WandaVision'; flipped the channel on MCU fans to give them what we all needed....

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have sent at least 168......

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Travis Cains looks over to the spot where he and George Floyd watched the world go by when they were young. It was on those steps that Cains — who considers himself Floyd's older brother and stuck with him through the highs of sports stardom at ...

Pope Francis made the call on a tour Sunday of the community's traditional heartland in northern Iraq, which was nearly decimated by the Islamic State group's rule....

Pope Francis made the call on a tour Sunday of the community's traditional heartland in northern Iraq, which was nearly decimated by the Islamic State group's rule....

Britain's opposition Labour Party called the government's pay offer to health workers...

The three presidential candidates vying to lift Barcelona from one of its worst crisis in recent memory have cast their ballots on Sunday, with the winner set to inherit a ... Click to Continue...

MADRID (AP) — The three presidential candidates vying to lift Barcelona from one of its......

Murphy's previous stand-up specials 'Delirious' and 'Raw' were huge commercial hits in the 1980s....

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It's commonly agreed that the future of broadcast radio lies in the eventual replacement of AM and FM analogue transmissions with digital services. A wide range of technologies exist to service this c......

As the Senate has become increasingly polarized, the filibuster has become a weapon enabling the minority party to obstruct rather than compromise. But a couple of reforms could fix that....

Chico High's Mario Giannin and Della Molina claim top spots in cross country action...