California Governor Jerry Brown is headed to Mexico on Sunday. Jonathan Renner, the governor’s legal affairs secretary, prepared a memorandum for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and other legislative leaders stipulating who will take over as governor while he is gone,
A new federal racketeering indictment unsealed on Friday charges California state Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) with operating a “cash for votes” criminal enterprise. The indictment replaces charges brought against Yee in March, when he was indicted on arms trafficking
An Oakland mother who allegedly left two of her children in a hot car outside a casino while she gambled was arraigned on two counts of misdemeanor child endangerment on Thursday. According to a police affidavit, the woman outright ignored
Two thieves stole three custom surfboards from a paralyzed surf instructor on Monday night in Cardiff, California. Randy Abbott, who runs a nonprofit organization called The View From 42 and gives surfing lessons to children with physical disabilities, said he
The Latino population in Santa Cruz County, California has significantly less incidence of whooping cough, and is more likely to vaccinate against the infection compared with other population groups. California declared a whooping cough “epidemic” last month; so far, the
The city of Santa Cruz, California has been using “needle sifters” to comb city beaches in an effort to clear the beach of hazardous, discarded drug syringes. The sand sifters head out to the beach early in the morning, before
On Tuesday, the California State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve fines of up to $500 a day for overuse of water, in an effort to penalize those who do not conserve amidst the state’s crippling drought. Now, Santa
LOS ANGELES — Elan Carr, the Republican nominee vying for the 33rd District congressional seat being vacated by Democratic icon Henry Waxman, raised $434,873 in the second fundraising quarter of 2014, according to FEC reports filed Tuesday. Carr finished the
LOS ANGELES–First Lady Michelle Obama and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke to a crowd of business owners and civil activists about the issue of veteran homelessness at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Wednesday morning. “We are here today
The Oakland Police Department was forced to issue a correction on Tuesday, after releasing a statement last week saying that Mayor Jean Quan was not using her cell phone in a June car crash that injured another driver. According to
Einstein, a “medium-sized shepherd mix,” has thrown his collar into the ring to become the next mayor of Oakland. The dog joins 20 other challengers to replace incumbent Mayor Jean Quan. The dog was entered into the race by Occupy
A former Twitter employee has filed a lawsuit against the company for age discrimination and wrongful termination. Peter H. Taylor, 57, filed the lawsuit last week in San Francisco Superior Court, according to The Snitch, a San Francisco Weekly blog.
A group of 40 illegal immigrants from Central America were deported back to their native Honduras on Monday, in what the Department of Homeland Security has called an “initial wave” of deportations. NBC News reports that the illegal immigrants were
A delegation of six California lawmakers departed for Central America on Monday for a nine-day trip to discuss the immigration crisis with Central American leaders. The delegation will visit El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama, according to Fresno’s ABC 30. The
A modest group of protesters gathered outside the St. Joseph Catholic Church on Sunday to decry the federal government’s focus on providing aid to illegal immigrants, instead of helping the nation’s veterans, homeless, and unemployed. Approximately 20 protesters sang patriotic
A man allegedly delivering soil additives to an illegal marijuana grow site was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of starting a wildfire in Shasta County, California. The fire started around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the San Francisco
California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly wrote a letter to President Obama on Friday, slamming him for not visiting the U.S.-Mexico border while in Texas for fundraisers and urging him to put a stop to the massive influx of illegal immigrants streaming
A new California law, in effect as of July 1, mandates that state and local agencies are no longer allowed to ask for job seekers’ criminal histories on their initial job applications. According to the language of AB 218, authored
MURRIETA — Murrieta Border Patrol agents have begun using online communication services, including Skype, to continue to process illegal aliens held in Texas detention centers. Border Patrol sources told KFI Radio’s Steven Gregory that Murrieta agents can process up to
The Minuteman Project, the “citizens’ Neighborhood Watch on our border,” began recruiting volunteers on Monday morning for “Operation Normandy,” a new citizen effort to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. Jim Gilchrist, co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project, posted a message
FONTANA — 46 illegal aliens were temporarily sheltered at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Thursday, where they waited to be driven to bus stations after being released at around 6:45 p.m. Although the immigrants’ final travel destinations could not be
California Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), who represents the city of Murrieta in the state Legislature, sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday, calling on him to provide resources and a timetable as to when the federal government
Lake Tahoe residents are so fed up with motorists speeding through their town that they have resorted to constructing makeshift scarecrows out of watermelons to trick drivers into reducing their speed. “It’s like a constant road race through here,” one
A fire near Smartsville, California that scorched nearly 50 acres on Tuesday is now 100 percent contained, although the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) called the conditions in the area over the last month the worst
