The NWS bureau located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California released a red flag warning on Sunday afternoon for northern parts of the state, including areas of the East Bay hills, Diablo Range and the Santa Cruz Mountains. The advisory is in place from Sunday afternoon through to Monday evening, with the agency warning of the potential for wildfires to be started by lightning, as parts of the state are experiencing a summer heatwave and drought that have caused multiple large blazes over the last two weeks....

Cwell, who did not share his last name with ABC7 News, said the confrontation began when a customer wanted to pay with dozens of quarters at the Broadway gas station at around 11 a.m. on Thursday. Surveillance footage showed the customer, who was wearing a gray hooded jacket, trying to pay with the quarters when he started a confrontation with the cashier. Cwell then intervened between the two in a bid to calm the situation down....

The inquiry comes after the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that he appeared to have improperly listed business holdings on a financial disclosure filing intended to reveal any conflicts of interest. After the Times report, Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, on Monday filed a complaint alleging that Elder “failed to properly disclose his interest in and income from his business Laurence A. Elder and Associates....

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state emergency this week in response to the heat wave in an effort to “increase energy production and reduce demand.” But in a statement on Friday, Glendale Water & Power, a municipal utility in Glendale, California said that power outages could be possible during the record-breaking heat wave. “Without major conservation efforts during the week of scorching temperatures, GWP may be forced to implement the utility stated....

On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas and City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez spoke about the start of wildfire season and the wildfires the state is currently facing. “Fire season is here, and that means we all have a role to play,” Garcetti said at the press conference. “This year we’re seeing more of the ingredients that fuel fires, that sustain wildfires: high temperatures, dry weather, strong winds....

The group of mayors, known as the Big City Mayors, sent a letter appealing for the funds to the leaders of the legislature on Thursday. The letter was addressed to state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, state Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and the chairs of the Senate and Assembly’s respective budget committees, state Sen. Nancy Skinner and state Assemblymember Phil Ting. “While our economic challenges make it difficult to identify an ongoing revenue source, the large amount of one-time funding presents a generational opportunity to make a dramatic move to address our homelessness crisis,” the mayors wrote....

“The #GlassFire has consumed the Chateau Boswell Winery and other structures along Silverado Trail in St Helena . The fire is currently zero percent contained,” noted a San Francisco-based photographer for Getty Images, Justin Sullivan, in a post Monday sharing images of the scene on his official Twitter account. The Black Rock Inn near the winery was also reported to be engulfed in flames from the Glass Fire, the Bay Area’s SFGate reported....

California has the world’s fifth-largest economy, surpassing that of the United Kingdom. It’s home to Silicon Valley, the center of the world’s technological transformation—and an area other regions are trying to emulate. The repercussions of this new law will be felt across the globe. Unfortunately, while the law brings some positive new developments for workers, it is also saddled with a series of problems that I fear will hurt the people it’s designed to help....

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said officers made the arrest following the incident outside the state capitol building in Sacramento on Saturday, local news channel CBS13 reported. It came amid reports of verbal and physical clashes at the site between pro-Trump protesters and counter-protesters. Police said the counter-protester hit the person in the wheelchair in the face with a chain. The suspect, who has not been named, was subsequently taken into custody and reportedly faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse....

The research, conducted by the technology website Techshielder, found that out of all U.S. states, California reported the highest number of catfishing scams, with 3,110 over 2020. Adjusted for population, California still comes top, with 0.0078 percent of the population having fallen for catfishing, when someone poses as a romantic interest but is instead lying about their identity—and often, they are trying to con you out of money. Last year, 20,282 cases of romance scams were reported in the U....

A Flex Alert, described by the ISO as “a call to consumers to voluntarily conserve electricity” when it expects to need more power “to meet demand,” was issued for Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. These alerts help the ISO avoid disruptions in the power grid. Dry and warm conditions were expected across the Los Angeles area through Thursday, with similar conditions again returning Sunday and early next week, the National Weather Service (NWS) said....

Perhaps one of the more difficult achievements to acquire right now is the Daredevil trophy. This achievement requires players to take down two enemies while affected by a flashbang. For those who don’t know, when you’re hit with a flashbang in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, your entire screen becomes bright white, making it exceptionally difficult to see. This makes it very hard to fight and take down enemies, especially on harder difficulties within the game....

Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died after officers pulled him over for a traffic violation in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, on Sunday afternoon. The shooting set off protests into early Monday morning, at a time when tensions were already high in Minneapolis, where the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer charged in the death of George Floyd, is underway. “Yet another Black life was taken by those sworn to protect, and we join the community in mourning Wright’s loss,” the ACLU said in a statement calling for a “transparent” investigation and release of any police video that captured the incident....

Lions coach Jim Schwartz says given Johnson's ability to play without practicing, that doesn't rule him out for Browns. The team is willing to send him out there a little less than fully healthy, given how big a difference-maker he is to their passing game. If Johnson plays, he steps into a tough matchup with cornerback Joe Haden. The Lions need him to stretch the field, as they have limited reliable receiving options beyond him....

Coach Ron Rivera announced Tuesday that both the quarterback and linebacker will not play during Carolina’s preseason opener against the Bears. Kyle Allen will replace Newton, while Jermaine Carter will start for Kuechly. “It’s just to be careful,” Rivera said (via the team’s official website). “There are a lot of things that we want to see from the young guys. By doing that, we give Kyle an opportunity right off the bat....

While the Panthers were trying to hold off a Seahawks comeback during the NFC divisional round, Newton had to burn his second timeout early in the fourth quarter. He was clearly not happy. When he walked to the sideline to discuss what happened with his coaches, he let an F-bomb slip. Obviously, he had no idea the microphones would pick it up, but oh yes, they did. MORE: Live updates from Seahawks vs....

But none of his passes on Sunday were as picture-perfect as this pass to Corey Brown. MORE: QBs tweet weird stuff | Week 14 scoreboard Just look how Newton is able to thread the needle and put the ball in the perfect spot; the only place where Brown could make the catch and nobody else. Newton finished the day 15-of-21 for 251 yards and three touchdowns. How do we explain this to the children?...

Never mind that Mrs. Onassis’s children have already taken what they want from the estate and donated thousands of historical items to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Long before the auction’s April 23-26 dates were announced last December, Sotheby’s was deluged with queries. There were even calls from people “not known to Sotheby’s,” in the words of Sotheby’s spokesperson Diana Phillips. “They wanted to know, “What does one have to do to attend an auction?...

In a short clip posted Thursday to Twitter by the streaming service Deezer, an off-screen interviewer asks Cabello who wrote the soundtrack to her life. After a brief pause, she nods, seemingly sure in her answer: Taylor Swift. It’s not the first time she’s been asked the question. In a 2018 interview with Tiger Beat, she revealed five songs that “shaped her life,” and, of course, Swift was on that list....