Claudia Cowan

San Francisco, CA

Claudia Cowan

Claudia Cowan has been the San Francisco-based correspondent for Fox News Channel for more than a decade, covering such diverse state issues as gay marriage, Sacramento's budget problems, and emerging technologies to help fight climate change. Claudia has spent much time in California's Central Valley, covering agriculture and water issues, as well as the Chandra Levy/Gary Condit scandal.

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November 23, 2009 2:22 PM

Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs

The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year --all gang-related-- make the city twice as deadly as Los Angeles. Frustrated city officials are now turning to the military for help, collaborating with combat ... read more


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November 18, 2009 12:03 PM

San Francisco’s Goal: Zero Waste

Environmentally-sensitive San Francisco is taking aim at trash- assembling shiny green bins by the truckload to help residents, landlords and merchants comply with a new mandatory composting ... read more


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November 11, 2009 2:43 PM

Tracking H1N1 Mutations

Genetically, the H1N1 virus hasn't changed much since it first appeared last April, but experience has shown influenza viruses tend to evolve -- sometimes with catastrophic results. In 1918, a relatively mild strain of Spanish flu suddenly became much more virulent, killing millions of people in a global pandemic. Making sure that doesn't happen with H1N1 is the goal ... read more


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November 3, 2009 1:14 PM

Helmet Cams for Cops

Police say dash-cams, taser cams and home videos, which make such good fodder for television news, only tell part of the story. Starting in a few weeks, officers in San Jose, Calif., will become the first in the nation to field-test the Axon-- a miniature digital camera integrated into their uniforms --  to record events as they happen. Rank and file officers told us ... read more