
On Sunday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who had already slammed Ian Mercer, the father of Umpqua Community College shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer, as a “complete failure as a father,” doubled down on ABC’s This Week.
by William Bigelow12 Oct 2015, 6:15 AM PST0

On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1461, the New Motor Voter Act, which permits anyone who has a driver’s license–even illegal immigrants–to become eligible to vote.
by William Bigelow12 Oct 2015, 5:44 AM PST0

Unlike the rest of the nation, Barack Obama’s approval ratings have risen significantly in the last five months in California.
by William Bigelow11 Oct 2015, 11:27 AM PST0

Police arrested 34 people Saturday evening after Mexico’s soccer team defeated the United States 3-2 at the Rose Bowl, earning a spot in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
by William Bigelow11 Oct 2015, 11:17 AM PST0

Clemson University has officially apologized for holding a “Maximum Mexican” night.
by William Bigelow11 Oct 2015, 7:48 AM PST0

Eighty-two researchers from around the world reconstructed a section of a rat brain on a computer.
by William Bigelow11 Oct 2015, 6:58 AM PST0

A jury on Friday found Atlanta Hawks swingman Thabo Sefolosha not guilty on charges of misdemeanor obstructing government administration, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest in the April 8 struggle with NYPD officers that left him with a broken right leg.
by William Bigelow9 Oct 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown’s pet project, the $68-billion bullet train, is finding it difficult to attract any outside investors willing to contribute the vital funds needed to complete the high-speed rail project.
by William Bigelow9 Oct 2015, 9:36 AM PST0

On Thursday, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines suspended all commercial film shoots at Los Angeles Unified schools.
by William Bigelow9 Oct 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

A North Carolina woman, fiercely defending her right to fly the American flag, may be expelled from a mobile home park for refusing to comply with the park’s demand to remove it.
by William Bigelow8 Oct 2015, 8:17 PM PST0

On Wednesday afternoon, a pilot of a small plane crashed near Compton/Woodley Airport in Los Angeles.
by William Bigelow8 Oct 2015, 11:12 AM PST0

NBA bad boy Matt Barnes, 35, discovering that New York Knicks coach and former teammate Derek Fisher, 41, was spending time with Barnes’ estranged wife, drove from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to fight him on Saturday.
by William Bigelow8 Oct 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

On Tuesday night, Mike Bell, who co-hosts an Atlanta sports radio show, blistered Jessica Mendoza, the first woman to serve as an analyst on an MLB postseason game.
by William Bigelow8 Oct 2015, 5:50 AM PST0

The Sarasota County School District will pay $200,000 each to the families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their high school principal. George Kenney, principal of North Port High School, hypnotized up to 75 students, staff members,
by William Bigelow7 Oct 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

On Wednesday, a woman who alleged her breasts were exposed by police before she was thrown into a police van without being covered up in 2012 was awarded $95,000 by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates.
by William Bigelow7 Oct 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

On Wednesday, a new Field Poll revealed support for Hillary Clinton in California has plunged since May.
by William Bigelow7 Oct 2015, 8:40 AM PST0

On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown, intoning, “The inequities that have plagued our state and have burdened women forever are slowly being resolved with this kind of bill,” signed the California Fair Pay Act, which aims to ensure that business pay female employees equally who perform “substantially equivalent work” as males.
by William Bigelow7 Oct 2015, 8:20 AM PST0

The Sacramento DMV has decided too many of its employees are abusing the time it takes to go to the toilet.
by William Bigelow7 Oct 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

Rick Pitino says that allegations that the Louisville Cardinals basketball program provided escorts left him almost “sick to my stomach.”
by William Bigelow5 Oct 2015, 12:38 PM PST0

Symantec reported that most of Wifatch’s code is written in the Perl programming language; once Wifatch attaches to a device, it connects to a peer-to-peer network used to distribute threat updates.
by William Bigelow4 Oct 2015, 4:45 PM PST0

On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, the “Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015,” into California Law.
by William Bigelow4 Oct 2015, 3:29 PM PST0

The lead designer of the Bay Bridge is warning that the cables holding up the eastern span are vulnerable because of water leaking into the twin steel boxes anchoring them.
by William Bigelow4 Oct 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Come back, Steve Bartman, all is forgiven. That’s the motivation of one “lifelong Cubs fan” who has created a GoFundMe page to raise money to send Bartman, the ostensible villain of the 2003 playoffs, to the upcoming wild-card game between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
by William Bigelow3 Oct 2015, 12:45 AM PST0

Last week, residents of a condominium community in Murray, Utah were informed by their board association that they had to cease flying their American flags.
by William Bigelow2 Oct 2015, 6:32 PM PST0

On Friday, in response to the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon in which Christians were targeted and murdered, Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey minced no words in his concise message to Christians and those who believe in the values of Western Civilization: buy guns.
by William Bigelow2 Oct 2015, 5:17 PM PST0