Robert Wilde

Protests and riots in Oakland, triggered by the Michael Brown verdict in Missouri and the death of Eric Garner in New York, cost the city $1.3 million in overtime pay for police officers.  SFGate reports that 14 protests over the

Friday a small tornado brandishing winds of 85 mph, tearing roofs off of houses and uprooting trees in its path, struck a South Los Angeles neighborhood. The National Weather Service confirmed that the Tornado was ranked as an EF0, which

A recently passed California initiative, endorsed by the state’s Democratic party, the ACLU, and George Soros, is responsible for an increase in Fresno crime figures, according to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer. Wednesday Dyer criticized Proposition 47–which reduces or eliminates

Tuesday the Los Angeles County supervisors with the strong backing of newly elected Sheriff Jim McDonnell voted to install a civilian oversight commission to oversee the embattled Sheriff’s Department. The Los Angeles Times reported that the board voted down a

You know that the “Ferguson ruling—Eric Garner“-inspired protest movement is getting out of hand when one of the most progressive mayors in the United States says it has gone too far. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates condemned protesters for looting and

California, according to a Professor of Law at Stanford University, “has some of the most complicated water rights systems in the United States, if not the world.” Buzz Thompson explained to KQED that early in California’s history, whoever got to

A fire that torched a towering residential construction project on Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles and shot flames seven stories into the air is now believed to have been started intentionally. The heat from the fire exploded windows in

It may come as a surprise that the idea to truncate California into multiples states has been around for over 160 years. What may be more surprising is that the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which Sunday marked its 73rd anniversary,

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) used the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) to out maneuver Japanese light rail manufacturer Kinkisharyo to secure a card-check provision to organize employees. Kinkisharyo won a $900 million dollar contract from the Metropolitan Transportation

Frank and Louie, a Guinness World Record-holding Janus cat, passed away on Thursday at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Grafton on Thursday. The two-faced cat was 15-years-old when he died on Thursday, outliving his closest

Not long after two adults made sexual abuse allegations against him, a veteran Los Angeles Police Department detective, while sitting in his parked car in a Palmdale parking lot, put a gun to his head, pulled the trigger, and killed

The long time Capitol shoe shine man, who beautified the wingtips and high heels of the most powerful men and women in California, was laid off on Thursday due to budgetary cutbacks. Eddie Wright, whose business card reads “Shoe Beautician,”

In a surprise visit to Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices, Tuesday FBI agents seized 20 boxes of documents in response to a federal grand jury subpoena regarding possible contract fraud involving a $1.3 billion Common Core iPad technology project.

A new “revenge porn” law took its first scalp after a Los Angeles jury convicted 36-year-old Noe Iniguez for violating the new statute which bans posting nude photographs online for the purpose of causing emotional harm. On Monday, Los Angeles

CA Republicans proposed two bills aimed to stop a cap-and-trade program for transportation fuels which starts up in January that will increase gasoline prices for motorists across the Golden State. The Sacramento Bee reported that since 2006 cap-and-trade laws, designed