A new statewide tobacco tax goes into effect July 1, tripling the current rate and bringing the total tax per pack to just under $3. That will bring the average price of a pack of cigarettes to ...

A 48-year-old cold case in California has been solved after a thumbprint on a cigarette pack matched a suspect through the ...

SAN JOSE — Cold-case investigators used a fingerprint from a 1977 pack of cigarettes and a subsequent ... the Bay Area to face charges in the Feb. 1, 1977 killing of 24-year-old San Mateo ...