A federal judge handed down a significant ruling in favor of the Uber drivers suing the ride-hailing start-up in California for misclassifying workers, expanding the class to a potential total of 160,000 employees.

According to the Los Angeles Times, reporters inside the recently re-opened home of the suspected terrorists behind Wednesday’s mass shooting came across receipts from CheaperThanDirt.com and BudsGunShop.com, legal online stores that are exactly what they sound like.

Police have released the names, ages, and hometowns of the 14 people killing in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California:

Two suspects—one male; one female—in the fatal San Bernardino shooting Wednesday morning were killed by police later in the afternoon, Police Chief Jarron Burguan told reporters.

A Stanford University study says California textbooks “use the same kind of language seen on climate change denier blogs” and misrepresent the scientific consensus about the causes and impact of global warming, reports The Guardian.

“Marty Adams, a senior assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said enforcing regulations in wealthy areas was more difficult than in poorer ones. ‘For a lot of people, accountants or landscapers pay the water bill, and they don’t even see it.’” You don’t say.

Police say that the University of California-Merced student who was shot and killed by police officers after stabbing four of his fellow students on Wednesday went on his rampage after being kicked out of a study group, the Associated Press reports.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot and killed a knife-wielding Mexican man at a border crossing in Calexico, California, on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

The Washington Post has a report on the legal obstacles that may prevent terminally ill Californians who successfully fought to gain the right to die from having a chance to exercise that right.

A majority of UC-Berkeley’s astronomy faculty have signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the university since 1999, who was found to have sexually harassed his students.

California Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law the California Racial Mascots Act, banning, among other things, the epithet “Redskins” from use as a school sports team name or mascot throughout the state.

Women in California are now reaping the benefits of a law that’s been called the strongest equal pay law in the nation.

On Monday, California became the fifth state to legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, bringing an end to decades of moral and legislative debate.

On Tuesday, a Facebook user in Stockton, California uploaded a disturbing viral video showing a large group of police officers violently forcing a 16-year-old student to the ground. The teen’s alleged offense? Jaywalking.

On Sunday, a YouTube user uploaded a terrifying two-minute video showing his hair-raising escape from Northern California’s Valley fire, a blaze one sheriff called “the worst tragedy Lake County has ever seen.”

One U.S. Marine was killed and 18 other service members were injured on Thursday when a vehicle rolled over during routine training at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, the Associated Press reports.

On Wednesday, three brothers ranging in age from 8 to 12 were found stabbed to death in the backseat of an SUV near a South Los Angeles elementary school, KTLA reports.

On Tuesday, three California jail deputies were charged with what their boss called the “vile and cowardly” murder of Michael Tyree, a homeless man who was found beaten death in his cell last month while awaiting transfer to a mental health facility.

Sacramento City College went into lockdown on Thursday after three people were shot, one of them fatally, in a parking lot on the south edge of the school’s campus, KHTK reports.

Three California deputies who repeatedly punched and kicked an apparently subdued suspected horse thief on live television earlier this year have been charged with assault by a police officer, the L.A. Times reports.