BRENTWOOD — Breitbart News was on site Election Day morning at several Los Angeles-area polling stations, talking with voters and watching one candidate for the 33rd district congressional seat cast her vote. “What’s the election for–mayor?” asked a passerby at
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly attacked by a woman with a hammer in her Oakland-area school Friday morning, according to CBS San Francisco. Hasseemah Diame, the mother of another student at the school, was arrested at the scene and will
A new video from political technology startup Crowdpac asks voters whether they will support Angelina Jolie in her upcoming California congressional primary this week. Jolie’s new film, Maleficent, was the winner at last weekend’s box office. And there really is a congressional race
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s pending purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers has been the talk of the sports world for the past week. Much of the chatter has been focused on the team’s price tag; at $2 billion, the
With just a few days left until the polls open in California, the race to succeed outgoing Rep. Henry Waxman in the 33rd congressional district has gotten ugly fast. Front-running campaigns are turning to attack mailers and, in one case,
Inmates at two Los Angeles-area jails have allegedly been subjected to violent beatings and abuse by prison guards for at least four years, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. FBI Special Agent David Dahle said that inmates at
AB 1894, a California bill that aimed to regulate medical marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol, was rejected by the state Assembly on Thursday in a 26-31 vote, according to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune. The bill
Google released a report on Wednesday outlining the demographic information about their employees, called “Getting to work on diversity at Google.” According to the report, 70% of Google’s employees are male, and 61% are white. Asian-Americans make up 30% of
More than 50,000 marijuana plants, worth $201 million, were found growing in California’s Los Padres National Forest, reports the Los Angeles Times. Ventura County Sheriff’s Dept. Capt. Don Aguilar said in the report that “the operation is one of the largest
A California bill that would have banned fracking, pending a state-ordered study deeming the practice safe, was defeated in the state Senate on Wednesday by a narrow two-vote margin. SB 1132, authored by Democratic state senators Mark Leno and Holly
On Wednesday, the California State Assembly unanimously passed AB 1839, a bill that would expand California’s existing film and TV tax credit and incentive program, although the Assembly did not settle on the exact dollar amount of the expanded credits,
An innovative new political technology startup called Crowdpac wants to take the confusion out of the political process and provide voters with the resources they need to make informed voting decisions. Their motto: “This election, vote wisely, not blindly.” According
San Jose State University senior Michael Sandoval made a record-breaking discovery in his astrophysics class when he discovered the densest collection of stars in the known universe, also called ultra compact dwarf galaxies, according to NBC Bay Area. What’s more,
Facebook is taking down “fan pages” glorifying Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodger, including a page called “Elliot Rodger is an American Hero,” reports USA Today. Still, the widely-condemned pages, celebrating Rodger for killing six people and himself near UC
A truck driver hauling a car from Los Angeles to Memphis apparently did not realize he was transporting 115 pounds of marijuana, worth about $650,000, along with the car, reports Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO. The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office
A man involved in a “family dispute” with his ex-wife had to be rescued from inside her chimney early Monday morning after sliding down in an effort to get into her house, Orange County authorities told local television station KTLA. O.C.
The parents of Elliott Rodger, the 22-year-old gunman who killed six people and himself in a deadly rampage near UC Santa Barbara on Friday, had contacted authorities last month after viewing their son’s disturbing YouTube videos. According to the San
31.8 million Americans, or roughly one out of every ten people in the country, will travel 50 miles or more by car for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. This represents the highest number of Memorial Day car travelers in almost
The Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce held its second annual “Perspective on Agriculture” luncheon at the Hyatt Regency on Thursday. A panel of food experts hypothesized that grocery shoppers nationwide will not see a significant increase in their grocery bills,
In just four months of operation, the new Covered California state health exchange has received about 1,500 complaints from consumers, reports the Los Angeles Times. The complaints focus on everything from basic plan enrollment confirmations to inaccurate provider lists and
The data breach at eBay that allowed hackers to gain access to the private information of 145 million accounts may go down as the second-largest online security breach in history, according to a report from Reuters. In October of last
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the ACLU have succeeded in forcing Lindbergh Field, San Diego’s international airport, to display an anti-SeaWorld advertisement that the airport initially did not want to display, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Former professional surfer Jill Hansen was indicted by a grand jury in Hawaii on Tuesday, which charged her with second-degree attempted murder, unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, and attempted unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle. Hansen allegedly ran over
