The Salinas Valley, known as the salad bowl of the nation, is struggling with poverty and malnutrition among the migrant farmworkers who harvest its crops.
Here is a look at five cases: Some of the people involved apologized. One denied being responsible. And another said his actions had been misconstrued.
At least five students in Tennessee died, and another 12 were still hospitalized, the authorities said. The bus driver was charged with vehicular homicide.
Supporters of the Second Amendment, ecstatic that Hillary Clinton lost, anticipate an expansion of gun rights with a Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress.
A Santa Rosa medical marijuana company says it came out into the open and tried to follow the rules — only to be raided by local and federal police officers.
Saying the Trump campaign awakened “dark forces,” Mr. Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor, will fund grants to community and civil rights groups and efforts to track attacks.
Mr. Obama is on pace to be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to leave office with a federal prison population smaller than the one he inherited.
