Legal Newspapers
Legal Blogs
General Local News

Local Daily Legal Newspapers

• The Recorder (subscription required for some stories)
• The Daily Journal (subscription required)

Blogs
(these are websites in a journal format; they tend to be very current; most are updated several times a day)

California & 9th Circuit Criminal & Appellate Law Blogs

• ElectricLawyer (9th Cir., Cal., U.S.S.Ct)
• Appeals to Organziation
• Criminal Appeal (9th Cir. and California)
• Ninth Circuit Blog (authored by FPD attorneys)
• Public Defender Dude

Other Appellate and Criminal Law Blogs

• Abstract Appeal (11th Cir. and Florida)
• Appellate Law & Practice
• Crime & Federalism
• CrimLaw
• CrimProf Blog
• FPD Nationwide Circuit Blogs Feed
• FourthAmendment.com
• How Appealing
• On Appeal ("A blawg about appellate practice")
• SCOTUSblog (U.S. Supreme Court coverage)
• Second Opinions (2d Cir.)
• Sentencing Law and Policy
• Talk Left – the politics of crime

• Bag and Baggage
  (blog of an appellate and intellectual property attorney; often notes interesting law related websites/blogs)
• SoCalLawBlog
  ('The Southern California Law Blog: Law, Politics and Southern California')
• American Constitution Society Weblog
  ACS is a national organization of lawyers, law students, and academics which "seek[s] to restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful - and traditionally central - place in Americal law." It's kind of an answer to the Federalist Society

Alameda

• Hills Newspapers
  (Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion, Piedmonter)
• Oakland Tribune
  

• Contra Costa Times

• The Marin Independent Journal

• Anderson Valley Advertiser
• The Mendocino Beacon

• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• SF Weekly
• San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner

• BeniciaNews.com
• The Times-Herald
• VallejoNews.com

• The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)