CITY SPOKESMAN

An army of Confederate monuments dots Virginia’s landscape but some of those statues could soon start coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades.

Leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border will gather in El Paso Wednesday night to memorialize the 22 people killed this month when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the Texas border city.

A Northern California city has denied a request to hold a so-called Straight Pride rally at a park. Modesto city officials on Friday denied an application by the National Straight Pride Coalition for an Aug. 24 event at Graceada Park.

Potholes can become more dangerous following heavy rain. NBC 7’s Steven Luke has more on these hazards.

A favorite community cool-off spot in Poway is reopening after renovation delays kept it closed during one of the hottest summers in recent history.

The hotel whose construction was to have begun at Anaheim’s Downtown Disney last month has been put on hold indefinitely after Disney and the city of Anaheim could not agree over the terms of the development, according to officials on both sides of the issue, it was reported Wednesday.

Each day, employees with the city’s “beach mechanized team” comb San Diego’s beaches collecting and removing trash.

A San Diego Fire Captain told NBC 7 she was sexually harassed for years and was the subject of retaliation after she demanded the department do something about the harassment.

In the lawsuit, Captain Sara Alfaro says she was threatened by her bosses and received severe retaliation after she filed complaints. NBC 7’s Joe Little has the interview.

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City that was stranded in a tiny Alabama town for more than two months, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet, has been hauled away.

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet — and the “poop train” is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other states’ waste. In Parrish, Alabama, population 982, the sludge-hauling train cars have sat idle...

Sexual harassment complaints within the city of San Diego increased sharply in 2017, according to city officials.

NBC 7’s Wendy Fry reports on the significant increase in sexual harassment claims filed by city employees in 2017.

The city of Hayward is apologizing for using a taco pun in an official tweet to promote a council meeting to discuss sanctuary protections.

The site of a train-tour bus crash that killed four people in Mississippi has a troubling history of accidents, including two this year, local and federal officials said Wednesday. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the crossing in Biloxi has a hump that has caused tractor-trailers to bottom out, and the federal agency is looking into whether the...

At least four people are dead after a train collided with a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Thousands of people ordered to evacuate flooding in San Jose, California, Tuesday returned home Thursday amid warnings to be careful about hygiene and handling food that may have come into contact with flood water....
About two-thirds of the 14,000 evacuees were being allowed to return home while 3,800 people remain under a mandatory evacuation order issued when a creek overflowed following...

A dozen members of a marching band were injured Tuesday after an SUV “accelerated and struck them” at the start of a Mardi Gras parade in Gulf Shores, Alabama, a city spokesman said. Four of the injured are in critical condition at local hospitals, Gulf Shores spokesman Grant Brown said in a news conference. The 73-year-old driver is being interviewed...

According to a recent study by FiveThirtyEight.com, San Jose is the most forgettable major U.S. city. They looked at a quiz on the website Sporcle, which asks people to name the top 100 most populous cities in the United States.

Inspectors performed in Berkeley since the deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley last summer revealed more than 400 buildings with balconies, stairways, decks and landings, need repairs, according to a city report released Wednesday afternoon.