The vast majority of mass shooters do not have a mental illness such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Rather, they suffer from an emotional disturbance such as anger, alienation, family problems or low self-esteem.
Remember when California had mental care and people who were mentally disturbed could be committed? Reagan had the hospitals closed. He said they are better off with their family and society. Now we see the result.
Families are confronting hard questions as more young white supremacists -- raised in an era scarred by recession, upturned by social change and governed by the first African-American president -- reveal themselves to their loved ones.
State and federal water systems have told farmers not to expect more than a fifth of their paper allocations, the state Water Resources Control Board is weighing a new regime of mandatory conservation, and supporters of more reservoirs are complaining about the glacial pace of spending $2.7 billion set aside in a water bond for more storage.
DLS wins four individual titles on its way to grabbing another NCS team championship.
Some of the homeless are genuinely good people, victims of bad luck. But most are drug addicts or alcoholics incapable of looking after themselves or living among productive people. They don’t belong on our city streets. They need to go.
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Three people were wounded in Oakland shootings Saturday night
In less than four months, voters will decide whether to boot Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky out of office over his decision to give what many regard as a lenient sentence to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner for sexually assaulting an intoxicated, unconscious woman. Can his job be saved?
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The Bay Area doesn't have enough construction workers to keep pace with the skyrocketing demand for new housing -- a shortage that's led to delayed and abandoned projects, and rising building costs.
And AFSCME's approximately 3,400 local unions calculate their own supposed "collective bargaining" allocations. So each enjoys vast discretion in deciding which of its expenditures are germane to collective bargaining, and therefore what their nonmembers owe to the union.
“I shall resign my position with immediate effect as it is clear that Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León will not rest until he has my head on a plate to convince the MeToo movement of his ‘sincerity’ in supporting the MeToo cause.” — State Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, in leaving office to avert […]
The Warriors answered major questions in their blowout win of Oklahoma City.
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One reader suggests not allowing any single occupant vehicles on the freeways during carpool lane hours.
One reader suggests not allowing any single occupant vehicles on the freeways during carpool lane hours.
Where would this instrument of destruction safely be kept? Would I have to have it with me at all times? How easily could two strong young high school students overpower me and take it away? Under what circumstances would it be used?
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The California Democratic Party declined to make an endorsement in this year’s U.S. Senate race on Sunday, snubbing Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her bid for a fifth full term in office.