Adelle Nazarian

It’s the latest tragedy at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Two baby swans, also known as cygnets, born there less than a week ago, have gone missing and are presumed to be dead. The alleged killers are believed to

John Berg, who is legally blind, ended a remarkable journey through the Pacific Ocean in a devastating crash which destroyed the boat he had been living on for 14 years.  The 40-foot, voice-activated boat named “Seaquel” completed its final sail

California’s state capitol is no exception to calls from Governor Jerry Brown to stall the use of water in one of the worst droughts in the state’s history. In fact, the capitol’s browning lawns are among the once-lush but now-dead

BEVERLY HILLS — With less than two weeks to go until the Golden State’s June 3 primary elections, the race for State Senator Ted Lieu’s 26th district seat is heating up in one of California’s most competitive contests. And despite

An unnamed Santa Ana, California woman who was allegedly drugged, kidnapped, raped, and held captive by her mother’s boyfriend when she was just 15-year-old has been found alive by authorities, and her alleged 41-year-old captor husband arrested, 10 years after

An anti-bullying measure which would have made Carson the first city in California to criminalize bullying suffered defeat at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Bullying as defined in the failed ordinance is harassment in the form of cyberbullying as well as physical

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents intercepted an attempt to smuggle 17 Mexican nationals, who were trying to enter the U.S. illegally via a panga boat near Catalina Island, off the coast of Long Beach, California.  All 17 people were

Former Marine and paraplegic long distance rower Angela Madsen plans to embark on a 50-60 day rowing journey from California to Hawaii. Her mission: to raise money for adapted boats that will accommodate people with disabilities and to inspire wounded

After banning her picture for violating school policy by wearing a tuxedo instead of a dress, a San Francisco Catholic high school has issued an apology to graduating senior Jessica Urbina and has agreed to include her picture in its

Of more than 24 arrests and numerous citations at San Francisco’s 103rd annual Bay to Bridges Race – where nudity and general debauchery were central to the race’s “fun” theme – one 11-year-old girl who was forbidden by police to

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — With just two weeks left until the June 3 primary elections, Republican candidate Elan Carr and Democrats Wendy Gruel, Ted Lieu and Matt Miller–all vying for outgoing Democratic Representative Henry Waxman’s seat–took turns speaking at a pre-election

In Oakland, California’s inner city youth are reportedly suffering from a deeper and more complex version of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) called “Hood Disease,” which is affecting 30% of its kids, according to a report by the local CBS affiliate

An eight-year-old East Oakland girl is in critical condition after she was struck in the neck by what police presume was a stray bullet. The girl was playing with her younger brother in front of their home early Friday evening

Tara the world-famous hero cat from Bakersfield, California, who saved her 4-year-old owner from a dog attack, has booked her first gig. She will be throwing out the first pitch at a May 20 minor-league game between the Bakersfield Blaze

Newly discovered misalignments, in addition to previously reported rusting and cracked welds, on California’s $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge allude to the possibility that the bridge could suffer devastating effects when the big one hits. The Sacramento Bee reports

The Los Angeles NAACP chapter that withdrew its lifetime achievement award to embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling last month honored Al Sharpton with its “Person of the Year” award on Thursday evening, in Sterling’s absence. Sharpton took a dig at Sterling in his acceptance

A female San Francisco parking control officer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a city police officer after he allegedly almost ran her over and spit on her face, in what her attorney is calling a case “about

Those ugly, knobby growths at the base of California’s beautiful redwood trees are actually quite valuable. So valuable that a suspected tree slashers and burl bandits have been arrested in Northern California for allegedly poaching and peddling the looted lumber

California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) has made it clear that he is ready, willing, and able to use the state’s embattled high-speed rail as leverage in his fight to win funding for social services and anti-poverty programs, including his

The release of a report titled Brown at 60 by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project shows that California leads the nation in racial segregation at schools and that segregation at both school and state levels has become widely accepted. The report,

The wife of notoriously anti-Israel human rights “expert”, terror apologist, and former United Nations official Richard Falk has assumed a new post at the UN, inciting protest and deep concern from both the United States and other organizations that stand

San Francisco’s officials do not, apparently, know how to cross the street. That’s according to a report at SFGate.com, where a simple question as to whether or not pedestrians can be ticketed for entering the crosswalk as the countdown clock begins “shockingly” elicited an incorrect

A group of four self-proclaimed female Catholic priests from Southern California who are part of a larger, international group of 180 women who were excommunicated are reportedly defying the Catholic Church by pushing to oversee the ordination of female priests despite