Lofgren, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, also is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and was a manager of the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump.

Approved by voters in 2010 and rolled out for the first time statewide two years later, California's Top Two primary election voting system has changed state politics.

Men made homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the June 11 event at the San Lorenzo Library.

The suspect, Jason Nielsen, 48, of Scotts Valley, was a large shareholder of Arrayit, a publicly traded medical device company based in California.

The killer apparently shot himself early Sunday after shooting two others in the parking of a North San Jose apartment complex.

The approximately 25,000 ballots counted by the Registrar of Voters Elections Division June 9 didn’t change any trends or flip any projected outcomes, but did suggest the early, expected outcomes are more likely to hold.

A customer at a Mountain View Starbucks and an employee at a Cupertino T-Mobile store were attacked last week in separate hate crime incidents.

Witnesses on the scene of the fire alerted arriving police officers to a person suspected of starting the fire., and he was arrested and charged with arson while firefighters fought to control the blaze.

Meanwhile, San Jose Inside Power Poll respondents favor some kind of gas tax rebate—even the environmentalists.

The Election Division of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters continued to count ballots today, and reported that as of 5 pm, 54% of the approximately 314,000 ballots had been counted.

Elections officials estimated that approximately 349,000 votes were cast in the primary countywide, and predicted voter participation at about 35%, which is similar to turnout percentages in previous gubernatorial primary years.

Facing a field of candidates with little statewide name recognition and barely any money to change that, Newsom received 61% of the early returns Tuesday night.

If Rosen’s totals hold above 50% he will be declared the winner. He was unopposed in his previous two re-election bids.

With 33.6% – 56,011 votes – of nearly 167,000 votes reported June 8 at 5pm, Jonsen led retired sheriff’s captain Kevin Jensen, who had the support of 30.5% – 50,951 – of the votes.

Cindy Chavez had 39% of the vote, with 33,596 votes compared to 32.3% for Matt Mahan, with 27,751 votes, according to preliminary unofficial returns reported by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Elections Division.

The resignation of Sonoma State University President Judy Sakaki is the third in six months in the CSU system, where at least eight campuses are roiling with sexual misconduct controversies.