The NBA Finals has returned to the halcyon years when series games drew an average of twenty million viewers, a number not seen since 1998, when the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan defeated the Utah Jazz while 29 million people watched.
On Monday, the California legislature, dominated by Democrats, is voting on a $117.5 billion budget. However, Governor Jerry Brown has not indicated he favors the amount of increased spending, which includes billions more in funding for public schools, and would implement a new tax credit for lower economic class.
On Monday, the Dalai Lama again asserted that climate change and the global economy were his prime concerns, and he used them as cause to call for “the oneness of humanity.”
Fans of the Kansas City Royals have voted so assiduously for the team’s players for the All-Star game that Royals players currently lead the balloting at every position except second base and one spot in the outfield.
The Columbus Dispatch quoted police Sgt. David Sicilian of the homicide squad asserting, “It’s littered with four bodies, and it’s a pretty ugly scene inside. We obviously have a homicidal suspect out here who’s not afraid to kill somebody. We need to quickly find out who that is or the persons responsible for this.”
On Tuesday, the California High-Speed rail project will finally start construction of the route, when crews will start building the viaduct allowing the train to cross the Fresno River, Highway 145 and Raymond Road near Madera. The construction will start three years after the date initially estimated by the rail authority.
On Saturday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed a measure that will raise the minimum wage in the city, currently $9 an hour, to $15 an hour by July 2020.
Seth Meyers, delightedly told his audience this week on his NBC show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, that he had a great time in Minneapolis the week before because a bar he visited was “queer-bombed.”
On Thursday, over five hundred years after Spain’s Jews were told to convert to Catholicism or leave the country, Spain offered the descendants of Jews who left the country the right to Spanish citizenship, according to the Jerusalem Post.
After ESPN released a May 22 report charging Patricia Driscoll, former girlfriend of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, with questionable financial practices in her capacity as executive director of the multimillion-dollar Armed Forces Foundation (AFF), the FBI and IRS have decided to investigate her, according to “Outside the Lines.”
According to police, two missing teenagers in Stuart, Florida, Kiera Medina and Destiny Souza, were held hostage by a man who lured them to a hotel, had sex with them in exchange for drugs, posted them on the classified advertising website Backpage as prostitutes, then ran over one in his car when he was robbed by a man at gunpoint.
Largely because the migration of bighorn sheep would be affected, the city of Los Angeles has refused to buy electricity from the Soda Mountain Solar Project, a solar plant proposed for the Mojave Desert, even though the plant could help the city reach its goal of obtaining 35% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris wants the California Supreme Court to depublish a ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeal that could be used to challenge tiered water-rate structures used by California cities.
U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), chairman of the House rail subcommittee, has proposed an amendment that could cripple plans for the construction of California’s high-speed rail project. Denham’s amendment would eliminate a 2012 agreement between California and the Obama administration that permitted the state to obtain federal grant money without matching those funds with money from state coffers.
Bob Baffert, the trainer of Triple Crown-winner American Pharoah, remains noncommittal over which race the thoroughbred will enter next, the $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on August 1 or the $1 million Haskell Invitational on August 2 at Monmouth Park.
A witness has come forward in the case of Jose Velasco, arrested for violating his parole when he had an altercation with his mother in the middle of traffic, to support the claims of police that Velasco intended to kill his mother.
The Hispanic-dominated Los Angeles Unified School District Board has decided it is better to let failing students graduate with D grades rather than deny them a diploma because of their poor grades in college prep classes.
Kenlissia Jones, 23, was charged with “malice murder” after her five-month-old fetus died from her ingesting an abortion pill called Cytotec, which warns that it should only be used in the first trimester of pregnancy.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed three pieces of legislation attacking the sugar in soda drinks. One proposal from Supervisor Scott Wiener requires billboards, buses, transit shelters, posters and sports stadiums to sport warning labels on soda advertising. Another proposal from Supervisor Malia Cohen bars any advertising for soda on city property. A third proposal from Supervisor Eric Mar prevents the city from spending any money on soda.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is facing a firestorm of criticism for comments he made to The Guardian, in which he argued that the preponderance of criminal records among black men makes it difficult to hire them as police officers.
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, famed for his propensity to live it up, has inaugurated a “party ship” that will travel round-trip from Miami to the Bahamas February 19-22, 2016.
In a Beech Grove, Indiana, Walmart, video was taken of two women brutally assaulting each other; a boy who appeared to be the child of one woman was told by the woman to punch the other woman in her “****ing face.” He obliged, throwing punches and kicking. Witness told the boy to move away, but the boy responded, “You can’t tell me to stop.” According to WTHR, the boy is six years old.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is battling new obstacles in its quest to build the track for the bullet train, including the removal of eight miles of track originally planned to end near Bakersfield, and strong opposition from San Fernando communities determined to prevent the train from traveling above ground in or near their communities.
Vincent Bugliosi, 80, who prosecuted mass murderer Charles Manson and his female adherents for the savage murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other people on August 8-9, 1969, died of cancer in Los Angeles Saturday night.
On Monday night, the Lancaster School Board in New York unanimously approved replacing “Redskins” with “Legends” for the district’s sports teams. The new nickname, replacing the 70-year-old “Redskins” moniker, brings with it a new mascot and logo.
A slight uptick has been found in those Americans self-identifying themselves as liberals. According to three national polls from 2015, the number of people calling themselves liberal rose from 23 percent in 2014 to 26 percent in 2015. The percentage of those calling themselves liberal, conservative or moderate had remained steady from 2010-2014, but in the last year, the percentage of conservatives dropped from 37 percent to 33 percent.
After considering their budget and the severe statewide drought on Thursday, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors announced that Lake San Antonio, which is located partly in southern Monterey County and partly in northern San Luis Obispo County, will be closed this summer on its south and north shores starting July 1.
Darron Delon Dennis Wint, a Guyana native accused of the gruesome multiple murders on May 14 of a Washington, D.C. couple, their 10-year-old son, and the housekeeper, will be taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) once he is released from jail, where he has been ordered confined by a judge.
The editorial staff at Gawker Media has become the first digital newsroom in the country to unionize, with 75% of voters agreeing to be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East if collective bargaining should be necessary. Gawker’s staff said they will be “determining what we want to bargain for; forming a bargaining committee; and negotiating a contract.”
Investigating the violent incident in 2014 that prompted the arrest of U.S. Women’s Soccer Team goalie Hope Solo, 33, ESPN’s Outside the Lines procured police records and secured an interview with one of Solo’s alleged victims to offer a starkly different picture of the events than the story Solo has promulgated on her Facebook page, a February appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, and an espnW article in the past week.
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, believed to be a religious Jew, was heckled by the audience at a Jerusalem Post conference when he defended the actions of the Obama administration vis-à-vis Iran over its nuclear program.
Last week, Los Angeles civic leaders met to discuss an initiative called Future of Cities: Leading in L.A., sponsored by Community Partners, which is designed to rejuvenate civic pride in the city. The initiative’s putative leader, political consultant Donna Bojarsky,
Despite the fact that California, with 38.8 million residents, has virtually double the number of the state of Florida, which holds 19.9 million, Covered California, the California health-insurance exchange, has been surpassed by Florida’s as the largest in the nation.
On Friday, a female LAPD officer, Mary O’Callaghan, 50, was convicted of assault under color of authority for a July 22, 2012 incident in which she kicked a woman seven times in the groin, abdomen and upper thigh while she
A woman who filed and lost a high-profile discrimination lawsuit against a Silicon Valley venture capital firm had a unique reaction: demanding the firm pay her $2.7 million to decline pursuing an appeal of the case, according to the firm, which filed court documents against her on Friday, NBC News reports.
It is perfectly to legal to evict tenants from their apartments while using the Ellis Act as justification, but it may appear monumentally hypocritical if you happen to be the chairman of the California Housing Finance Agency, which was designed to “create safe, decent and affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income Californians,” according to its website.
Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty admitted on Thursday that the sleeves of 120 of the 400 “high-strength” rods anchoring the tower of the new Bay Bridge to its foundation are immersed in salt water that could corrode them.
The Bay Area News Group (BANG) and the Los Angeles News Group (LANG) won their battle with the state legislature this week, as a Sacramento County judge ruled that former Democratic state Sens. Leland Yee and Ronald S. Calderon must make their meeting schedules, office calendars and assorted official records available to the public.
A new biography of former Philadelphia 76ers star guard Allen Iverson alleges that Iverson was profoundly drunk at the infamous 2002 press conference in which he intoned some variation of “we’re talking about practice” 22 times.
The corruption scandal embroiling FIFA encroaches upon the Clintons, leaving the former president scurrying to distance himself from a cash source that once close appeared quite close.
