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CALIFORNIA—A citywide search for the missing 19-year-old UC Berkley soccer player ended when officials confirmed he was found dead blocks away from where he was last seen. In the early hours on Satuday, March 28, Eloi Vasquez attended a party at USC’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house located on the 600 block of West 28th Street. At some point during the party,...

HOLLYWOOD—The 43rd Daytime Emmy nominations were unveiled on the CBS gabfest “The Talk” on Tuesday, March 31. Leading the pack of all nominees was the daytime series “General Hospital” with a total of 28 nominations including Outstanding Drama Series. Followed close behind was “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with 10 nominations. The ABC soap will compete against “The Bold and the...

SACRAMENTO—California Governor Jerry Brown has made the state's first-ever executive order mandating the reduction of water use. The order is a response to the state's prolonged and historic four-year drought, one that has brought California to a near-crisis situation. In the order, Brown demanded the State Water Resources Control impose a 25 percent reduction on California's water supply agencies, facilities that serve nature's...

SAN FRANCISCO—NaVorro Bowman could prove the silver lining of a San Francisco 49ers offseason that has left fans reeling. The three time All-Pro Linebacker has become one of spring's forgotten storylines, as Bowman's recovery from a devastating knee injury in the 2013 playoffs has been overshadowed by news of fellow inside linebackers Patrick Willis and Chris Borland's early retirement. But with...

SAN FRANCISCO—Officials from school districts in both San Francisco and Oakland have applied for exemption from the educational restrictions of the nationwide "No Child Left Behind" Act. No Child Left Behind is a piece of federal legislation proposed by President George W. Bush and approved by Congress in 2001. The act requires schools to put students through standardized testing that...

Warning: The video bellow pictures violence and explicit language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oclwVnbYc SAN FRANCISCO—A YouTube video has surfaced picturing a passenger of a taxi cab assaulting a driver with a padlock. The attack, taking place in San Francisco on March 30 was apparently unprovoked and random. A camera present in the cab's dashboard captured the assault, offering a brief glimpse to the circumstances that immediately...

SAN FRANCISCO—The charges against two former federal agents were filed in a San Francisco federal court. Both agents belonged to a Baltimore-based task force that investigated the Silk Road website. Silk Road was an online black market where illegal drugs were sold. The market was built to allow users to browse anonymously with no possible tracking. On October 2, 2013 the...

HOLLYWOOD HILLS—The death of Andrew Getty is a mystery, that the Getty family is struggling to piece together, as the news broke on Tuesday, March 31 of the 47-year-old's death. Getty, heir to a billion-dollar oil empire, was the grandson of Los Angeles legend J. Paul Getty, a man many believed to be the world's richest at the time of his...

SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of suspects have been arrested in connection with a double homicide that took place in the parking lot of San Francisco's Crocker Amazon Playground on the morning of March 9th. Davante Robinson and Gregory Morton III, both 21, were taken into custody for the fatal shooting of Donzel Gaines, 19, and Kenyatta Butler Jr., 18. The arrest of...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, March 30, a four-hour police standoff and barricade situation ended with the surrender of a potentially suicidal NoPa man. Authorities from the San Francisco Police Department responded to the man's home, located on the 400 block of Lyon Street, near the intersection of Lyon and Hayes Streets. Following an officer response at 6:45 p.m., the 44-year-old barricaded man, whose...