On Wednesday, federal and local law enforcement officials crushed a huge heroin operation in Chicago, arresting or naming 42 defendants in the roundup. The apparent ringleader of the operation, James Triplett, 33, also known as “Trell,” had the entire city block of 3700 W. Grenshaw under the sway of his dealings, supplying heroin wholesale. He even had “shift workers” working 24/7.
The future has arrived in the Bay Area city of Mountain View, where Google’s self-driving bubble cars, which drive themselves, are plugging along city streets.
Members of SEIU-UHW working at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside have charged the hospital with allowing maggots in cafeteria food, even alleging that maggots were found in a patient’s nose, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Luke Ridnour endured a whirlwind tour of the league in 24 hours, going from Orlando to Memphis to Charlotte to Oklahoma City in one trade after another.
A new poll from New Hampshire indicates that Hillary Clinton’s popularity with large swaths of the Democratic Party has eroded, leaving an opening for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Timothy Brownell, 25, who is accused of accosting three Sacramento-area musicians wearing skinny jeans and stabbing them with his knife while screaming homophobic slurs on Sunday, turned himself in to police Tuesday night.
On Monday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced it will start releasing black license plates similar to the 1960s version in two or three weeks. Personalized black plates will be released in August.
Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was slain in the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof killed nine black worshipers, voted for the Confederate flag’s display at the Statehouse on May 3, 2000, when he was a state senator.
The bad news for the San Francisco Bay Bridge tower just got worse: cracks have been discovered on some of the rods that are part of the tower foundation, according to Caltrans. Caltrans also admitted that one of the four tower anchor rods broke after water exposure made it brittle.
Deflating footballs in the NFL is not restricted to the New England Patriots, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
On Monday, a judge from Sacramento County ruled that a proposed ballot measure called the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” which called for the execution of gays and lesbians throughout the state, was unconstitutional. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond M. Cadei’s decision means that the measure cannot advance to the signature-gathering phase, thus barring it from being placed on the ballot.
“We’ve survived PEDs,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia commented. “This game will never survive gambling. Will never.”
By next month, California, ever-eager to push the envelope on social issues, will become the first state to let transgendered people list their changed identity on their death certificates.
On Monday, Barack Obama, speaking at an Iftar dinner (the evening meal when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset), he hosted at the White House, intoned to his audience, “The Koran teaches us that God’s children tread gently on the earth … We affirm that whatever our faith, we are one family.”
Despite Pete Rose’s protests that he never bet on baseball as a player, ESPN’s Outside the Lines acquired copies of documents suggesting that Rose did just that between March and July 1986, his last season on the field.
On Friday, a high school track-and-field coach at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo was arrested in Laguna Niguel on suspicion of possession of child pornography, according to the Contra Costa Times. Raymond William Henry, 57, who rented a car, allegedly left what appeared to be his iPad in the car when he returned it, prompting the person who discovered the pictures of naked girls ages 11-13 to contact police on Thursday.
Two imminent Supreme Court decisions will be rendered in June, one that will affect some Californians significantly and another that is expected to affect at least 34 states, but not California. The Court’s decision in Obergefell vs. Hodges, which will decide if same-sex marriage must be legalized in all fifty states, will affect gay couples in California, including Placentia residents Matthew Mansell and John “Johno” Espejo, who live with their two adopted children and joined the case as two of the 30 plaintiffs.
A man who somehow allegedly got hold of a gun while handcuffed in a police car and killed the officer transporting him was arrested on Sunday in New Orleans.
One Orange County father-and-son combination owns what may be the record for a family’s perfect attendance at school over two generations. Rancho Alamitos High starting catcher Josh Rodney, who just graduated, never missed a day of school in his entire life–the same amazing accomplishment as his father, Tom, according to the Orange County Register.
Governor Jerry Brown, who issued an executive order in April forcing the state to cut green house gas emissions to 40% under 1990 levels by 2030, released a statement Thursday endorsing Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change.
Three years before the Obama Administration cynically decided to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with a woman, the Washington Post reported that Rachel Dolezal posted a video in which she ranted about the “older white
It looks like three strikes and you’re out for the St. Louis Cardinals. The franchise admitted that a third, earlier hack of Houston Astros proprietary information in 2012 preceded the 2013 and 2014 hacks already known to the public.
Either the National Park Service is lazy, understaffed, or the number of people who visit the National Mall has increased exponentially, because the Mall’s trash bins are overflowing with garbage.
Pope Francis I’s controversial climate change encyclical, which embodies redistributionist economic philosophy in the guise of environmentalism, and wraps all of that up in an eggshell-thin Biblical reinterpretation, doesn’t merely draw from secularist philosophy and environmentalist truisms: it draws from Muslim poet Ali al-Khawas.
Dylann Storm Roof, 21, who slaughtered nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, was an alleged drug user of the synthetic drug Suboxone, as well as Xanax, cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamine, according to police records. He also admitted to friends that he wanted to start a civil war months before his violent rampage.
Members of black churches in California responding to the horrific attack on Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina Wednesday are expressing their grief, and noting that the attack recalled prior eras when racism was more widely accepted. Meanwhile, the LAPD upped its patrol around black churches, the Los Angeles Times reports.
So many people people visited the Antioch Water park on Thursday afternoon to escape the heat and the drought that when chemicals in the water went awry, over 30 people complained of sickness, prompting the arrival of emergency crews.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times took a swipe at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, claiming that his exit to Washington D.C. on a trip largely revolving around a fund-raiser just as the Police Commission meeting was considering the police shooting
Marilyn Monroe fans mourned this week as a home in Valley Village where Monroe lived in 1944-45 was razed just before a city commission was to decide whether to make the home a historical landmark.
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who later became the richest person in Los Angeles, died at age 98 of age-related causes on Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles Times reported.
According to the Daily Mail, Rachel Dolezal, the white woman and head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who masqueraded as black until her parents outed her, claimed that her former husband, Kevin Moore, who is genuinely black, made her perform sex acts on camera.
On Monday, Democrats in Sacramento, doing their best to aid Governor Jerry Brown’s troubled high-speed rail project, attempted to grease the way for the project’s success by relaxing oversight and reporting requirements.
On Monday, California Assemblyman Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) became the first member of the GOP to vote for the state budget in years–because he accidentally voted for it while he was dallying with Facebook, where he opposed it, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Justice Department allegedly knows not only the culprits in the hacking of Houston Astros computers, they know the motive, too.
Latulippe said police claim have no idea what precipitated the incident; the patient’s condition was not made public.
A Florida couple had their two boys, aged 11 and 4, removed from them because the eleven-year-old beat his parents home and was playing basketball alone in his yard.
On Tuesday, Ronnie Floyd, the Senior Pastor of Cross Church and President of the Southern Baptist Convention, told delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, that he will never perform a same-sex marriage.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a Democrat who has praised Barack Obama for his efforts to “improve policing” in America and lauded him by saying “he’s hip, he’s a smooth president,” decided to flatter a GOP candidate for president on Monday, praising Ben Carson in Sacramento at a gathering of Johnson’s “Indivizible” African-American empowerment organization.
Six people, including at least five students from Ireland, died on Tuesday after a balcony collapsed early in the day at an apartment complex near the University of California Berkeley. At least seven other people were injured.
