The Los Angeles City Council decided unanimously on Wednesday to pay a $215,000 settlement to a man who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to a public commission meeting and then sued the city when they ejected him from the
A man born and raised in California has been denied permission to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to come home, despite the fact that he has a California birth certificate and driver’s license. Meanwhile, hundreds, if not thousands, of unaccompanied, illegal
Ben Oude Kamphuis, a Dutch soccer fan, drove his 1955 Chevrolet 235 pickup truck nearly 13,000 miles from San Francisco to Brazil just to watch his Netherlands team play in the World Cup, reports NBC Los Angeles. The drive took
Tesla CEO Elon Musk released a statement on Thursday, vowing his company would “not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” He said that patents hanging on the wall of Tesla headquarters have
UPDATE: The Fresno County coroner confirmed that Pearson was murdered early Thursday morning, shortly after his mistaken release. He was found in the middle of a Fresno street with “fatal wounds” to his torso and head, and was transported to Community Regional
LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of video game and technology fans descended on the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday for Day 2 of the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the video game industry’s premiere trade show and one
A pair of San Francisco sisters were arrested Monday on suspicion of operating at least four brothels in the city’s Richmond district, where eager patrons paid up to $200 a piece to have sex with young Asian women, reports the
According to a “Late Contribution Report” filed Monday with the California Secretary of State office, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the maximum allowable $13,600 to Marshall Tuck in his race for Superintendent of Public Instruction just before
A new study from finance website NerdWallet reveals that San Francisco is no longer the most “LGBT-friendly” city in the United States, although three California cities did make the Top 10. According to the data, Seattle is now the most
A new report released Monday by the Department of Veteran Affairs revealed that the average wait time for veterans seeking care in the VA’s Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is 56 days, a staggering four times longer than the department’s
Sacramento County supervisors will pass an ordinance on Tuesday limiting indoor medical marijuana grow operations to nine plants per household, according to the Sacramento Bee. Supervisor Roberta McGlashan proposed the restrictions earlier this year in the wake of complaints from
A high school teacher in Southern California allegedly held a group of three students at knifepoint and demanded he be driven to a fast-food restaurant, reports NBC Los Angeles. John Edward Maust, a 34-year-old teacher at Arroyo Pacific Academy in
Last week, a new bill aimed at fighting diabetes in California by imposing warning labels on soda and other sweetened drinks passed the Senate in a 21-13 vote. A new report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Two Sonoma County teenagers were arrested last week after allegedly using a stolen credit card to rent a $12 million vacation home and a $240,000 orange McLaren sports car, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Mohannad Halaweh and Nhimia Kahsay, both
Last week, Donald Sterling and his wife Shelly agreed to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. CNN reported on Saturday that $200 million, or 10%, of that sale price will go toward establishing a new
As part of a recent lawsuit filed against the National Security Agency on behalf of AT&T customers, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White issued an order last Thursday prohibiting the NSA from destroying documents and records relating to the the agency’s
An amendment to a House bill that would limit the federal government’s ability to enforce federal marijuana laws and raid dispensaries in the 22 states in which medical marijuana is legal passed the Republican-controlled House last week in a 219-189
Pete Peterson has not yet been elected California’s secretary of state, but that hasn’t stopped him from beginning to try to fix the problems he sees in the office and in California. On Thursday, Peterson, the GOP candidate who will
The iPhone-controlled bicycle called the Visiobike could be a new milestone in electric biking, and the safest bicycle to date, according to TechCrunch. The Visiobike is a carbon-fiber, “electric/mechanical hybrid” bicycle that has an automatic transmission and a battery assist
California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari, fresh off a win in the state primary on Tuesday, challenged Governor Jerry Brown to at least ten debates in the run-up to November’s general election, according to the Los Angeles Times. Kashkari issued
A newly amended bill from a California lawmaker would require college students to stop in the heat of passion and establish verbal or written consent before having sex anywhere on campus, reports L.A. Weekly. SB 967, amended last week by
Indicted state Sen. Leland Yee looks to finish a relatively strong third in the race for California Secretary of State, despite the fact that he dropped out of the race months ago, according to the Los Angeles Times election results
California’s 33rd District is rated “safely Democrat” by Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call and has been represented by Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman for 40 years. Republican Elan Carr just won the 33rd District primary. Carr and Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu
With 82.5% of precincts reporting, Republican Pete Peterson and Democrat Alex Padilla are locked in a neck-and-neck battle in the California Secretary of State race, although both will ultimately move on to the general election in November, according to the
Muni operators in San Francisco extended their “sickout” into a second day on Tuesday, snarling traffic in the city and causing long delays for those trying to commute, according to CBS San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle had reported on
