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.
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a group worried about Senate Bill 4, the measure recently passed that would enable undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on the state exchange, has rereleased a thirty-second ad urging the slowing of immigration that has been attacked by critics for connecting the surge in immigrants to the paucity of water available in the state.
Scott Schmerelson, the first Republican elected to the LAUSD Board of Education in decades, has stated he wants to end “social promotion,” the practice of advancing failing students to the next grade because of fears that holding them back would damage them psychologically.
The British Columbia Health Ministry states that in the past five years, the number of abortions in its province has decreased 14%.
A Stockton high school has stated that it is willing to republish the school’s entire yearbook because a female student challenged the school’s dress policy for her senior portrait, prompting her exclusion from the yearbook. Crystal Cumplido, a senior at
On Monday, the Obama administration paved the way for transgendered individuals to sue their employers if they are unhappy with the restroom arrangements where they work.
Over the weekend, a giant swastika made of removable, snap-together tiles was placed on the football field at El Camino High School in South San Francisco. The school had just celebrated graduation ceremonies on Friday. Residents saw the swastika over the weekend, but custodians only discovered the swastika on Monday, whereupon they told school officials and subsequently removed it.
INTERPOL has issued Red Notices, also called international wanted persons alerts, for two former FIFA officials and four corporate executives who have been charged with racketeering, conspiracy and corruption.
