AOL News Team - Richard C Paddock

Richard C. Paddock

San Francisco Correspondent

An award-winning reporter, Richard was based in Moscow, Jakarta and San Francisco for the Los Angeles Times. He has reported from Iraq, Bosnia, Burma and 45 other countries.

Latest Post A Christmas Exchange: Swapping Services for Gifts

View All Posts

Contact

Man Who Posed as Hero Marine Is Sentenced

posted: 1 day 2 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (March 15) -- A Palm Springs bank employee who posed as a highly decorated Marine lieutenant colonel at his high school reunion was sentenced today to a year of probation and ordered to ...

Full Story »

Facing Gun Issue, Starbucks Throws Up Its Hands

posted: 13 days ago

SAN FRANCISCO (March 3) -- The Starbucks coffee chain announced today that it will continue letting customers openly wear unloaded handguns in its coffee shops. At the same time, the company asked me ...

Full Story »

'Gov. Moonbeam' Wants His Old Job Back

posted: 14 days 2 hours ago

(March 2) -- Jerry Brown, who was first elected governor of California when he was 36, wants another try at the job -– 27 years after he left office.

Full Story »

Recovering Humpbacks Arrive at Critical Point

posted: 14 days 7 hours ago

LAHAINA, Hawaii (March 1) -- From the research boat in the waters off Maui, we could see humpback whales in all directions. A few yards from the boat, a calf surfaced to breathe as its mother rested ...

Full Story »

Devil Trumps Reagan in Duel Over Landmark

posted: 20 days 7 hours ago

(Feb. 24) -- Arthur Mijares, a devout Christian, thinks Mount Diablo is no way to identify a San Francisco-area landmark. So he petitioned local officials to support changing it to Mount Reagan in ho ...

Full Story »

California Bill Takes Aim at Basic Right: Free Parking

posted: 20 days 9 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 24) -- For many drivers in California, the right to free parking is as fundamental as freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Politicians who challenge the California car cul ...

Full Story »

Can US Be Haven for Those Who Sanction Torture?

posted: 25 days 2 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 19) -- When Mohamed Ali Samantar, former prime minister of Somalia, arrived in the United States in 1997, he quietly took up residence in Virginia, far from the violence and chaos ...

Full Story »

Actors Pitch In for Prop 8 Trial Re-Enactment

posted: 41 days 7 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 3) – On the morning the landmark Proposition 8 trial was set to begin last month, John Ireland was sitting eagerly at his computer ready to watch the proceedings on YouTube. ...

Full Story »

Prop 8 Testimony Ends With Only a Brief Defense

posted: 47 days 9 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 28) – Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the landmark trial challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage put on two weeks of testimony from a slew of experts. The defense ...

Full Story »

Testimony About Trauma, Prejudice in Prop 8 Trial

posted: 54 days 6 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 21) -- A gay Denver Police Department employee testified about the trauma he suffered as a teenager when his desperate evangelical parents tried to force him to change his sexual ...

Full Story »

123»Last