Orange County’s new transportation center, ARTIC, located on the 5 freeway near the Honda Center, has drawn fewer than 800 boardings a month since it opened December 8–far fewer than the roughly 3,000 Anaheim officials projected when they hawked the center to the city’s citizens, according to the Orange County Register.
In California, advocates for overturning the federal ban on the right to die are adopting a strategy used by right-to-die advocates across the nation; they are filing suit against the state in which they reside.
ESPN’s Outside the Lines charges that the New England Patriots Deflate-gate controversy involved not only the balls snapped to Tom Brady but one used by Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski.
Republican Congressman Jeff Denham of California, who takes his bulldog Lily when he flies across the country, was perturbed when he found he couldn’t take the dog on Amtrak unless she was a service dog. He was determined to do something about that.
Nancy Kaffer, writing for The Daily Beast, makes the outrageous suggestion that Satanic cults are the best hope for preserving religious freedom.
Americans who don’t know that they will be penalized for ignoring the requirements to obtain health coverage may finally figure that out when they see the penalty on their tax returns.
On Monday, Doug Baldwin, the wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, decided to use an orifice much farther north than the one he pretended to use in Super Bowl XLIX.
Last week in Marysville, CA, five teenagers were arrested after tearing through a Save Mart yelling gang slogans, pulling food off the shelves and throwing it to the floor, and pouring alcohol down their throats, the Daily Mail reports. Marysville police reported that the four girls and one boy “terrorized the store” around 1:40 p.m. A 64-yeqr-old veteran in the store slipped and fell on cooking oil that the teenagers spilled on the floor, and may reportedly have broken his elbow.
Two burglaries featuring naked suspects occurred roughly 400 miles apart in California on Monday. In Mira Mesa, an officer had to shoot a suspect who had burglarized a home, then resisted arrest after remaining impervious to two shots from a stun gun.
A team of optics researchers from Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) is developing telescopic contact lenses that may help people suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which may affect 196 million people worldwide by 2020.
A fissure erupting between private and pubic labor unions may pave the way for a GOP presidential candidate in 2016. On two significant issues, the differences between the private unions and Barack Obama have become public; the Keystone XL Pipeline and Obamacare’s tax on so-called Cadillac health insurance plans.
The Bloomberg Innovation Index, which ranks countries based on tech developments including research and development, tech education, and patents, placed the United States in sixth place with regard to overall innovation, research and development (R&D), and education. The U.S. followed South Korea, Japan, Germany, and Finland.
A report submitted on Valentine’s Day at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science stated Facebook may be able to identify mothers suffering from postpartum depression.
Some of California’s smaller ski resorts have closed because of the state’s drought, which has diminished the amount of snow in the mountain areas. Presidents’ Day usually is a boon for the ski resorts, but this year, the resorts are hurting.
On Saturday night, a woman on a flight from Los Angeles to Portland had a battle with a scorpion–and won.
Three new NBC News/Marist polls indicate the 2016 GOP presidential race promises to be a wide-open race.
NYPD officials’ celebration of their city going twelve days without a murder had their celebration cut short on Friday, when Eric Roman, 28, was shot in the head, leg, and hand in Queens, dying on Saturday in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Although the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet opened the skies completely to commercial drone use, it has opened the window a smidgeon. Bloomberg News reports that the FAA will permit commercial drones under 55 pounds to fly up to 500 feet above ground if flown during the day and within the view of their operators.
President Obama ordered Labor Sec. Tom Perezto to resolve a simmering labor dispute ship owners and longshoremen that could incapacitate 29 West Coast ports.
For roughly five seconds on Friday, Fox 5 San Diego portrayed an unusual sex-assault suspect: Barack Obama. On the 10 p.m. news, roughly four minutes into the broadcast, anchorwoman Kathleen Bade intoned: “The only suspect in a sex assault at SDSU will not be charged.” Simultaneously, a picture of Obama appeared, captioned, “NO CHARGES.”
At midnight on Sunday, open enrollment for Covered California, the state’s version of Obamacare, will end.
A bill to be offered by California Democratic state Sen. Richard Pan would eliminate the “personal belief exemption” for measles vaccinations, forbidding parents to reject vaccination for their children.
Suddenly, Barack Obama isn’t quite as popular with Silicon Valley execs as he used to be, primarily because they do not trust his efforts to increase the sharing of digital data between their companies and the federal government.
On Thursday, The California Film Commission Board of Directors accepted California’s new tax credit program. The state of California, desperate to keep fleeing TV and film productions from leaving the state, tripled its annual budget for film/TV credits last summer, and now that the Film Commission has approved, will send the measure to the governor’s Office of Administrative Law for review and final approval.
According to new filings in federal court, Tony Bosch used the money MLB gave to his lawyer and security team, over $1 million, for luxury hotels, lavish dinners, strip clubs, and paying his allegedly pregnant girlfriend.
