As a City Council member back then, I supported Measure X and the notion of an independent mayor. I was wrong.

A girl, 13, has died in a house fire in Missouri just weeks after beating cancer, her father has said. The blaze occurred in ...

Jerilynn Brown and Marc Anthony Young perished following the fire which was is said to have started when the dying embers of ...

An early morning fire in Independence left one person dead and two others badly injured, according to the Independence Fire ...

BUCKNER, Mo. — It's been a little over a week since an early morning 4th of July house fire took the lives of two near ...

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown had a more prosaic reason for mounting a run for mayor of Oakland in 1998: he was out of other options after having lost three presidential primaries and one U.S.

Jerry Brown in an archival image seen in “The Disrupter,” part of the “American Masters” series on PBS. (From Kurt Fishback) By Robert Lloyd Television Critic . Sept. 15, ...

Jerry Brown was sworn in as California Secretary of State, his first statewide office, in 1971 by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, left. Brown was joined at the ceremony by his parents, ...

Former Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown refused to comment on Vice President Kamala Harris after expressing confidence in President Biden as the "man of the hour," during a recent media ...

During his first governorship a half-century ago, Jerry Brown acquired a reputation for making abrupt changes of position, sometimes contradicting himself. The starkest example occurred in 1978 when ...

News about Jerry Brown, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

He did ride in a helicopter with Jerry Brown, then governor, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, then the governor-elect, back in 2018 to survey wildfire damage, but both Jerry Brown and Newsom told the New ...