In a scenario Abner Doubleday could hardly have envisioned, it took two instant replay reviews at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday to confirm a wild triple play pulled off by the Cleveland Indians in their 10-3 victory over the Los Angeles
Speaking with Los Angeles-based CBS News affiliate KCAL9, Leehy Shaar, the aunt of Gilad Shaar, one of the three Israeli boys murdered by Hamas operatives, said sadly, “Again, they were just boys, just kids.” Shaer had just moved to Los
The swirling controversy over information allegedly gleaned illegally from the internal database of the Houston Astros and published on Deadspin.com continues to grow. The controversy started on Monday when Deadspin published the information from an Astros shorthand version of ten
Festivities celebrating Ramadan, which is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, began Friday with a gathering at the Islamic Center of Irvine, CA, the Orange County Register reports. The month, which officially began Saturday and ends July 28 at
The legendary Top 40 voice, Casey Kasem, died on June 15–but he hasn’t been buried yet. His body lies in Washington state and not in Glendale, CA, where he wanted to be buried, ostensibly because of a family feud between
Reuters and The New York Times have both had paradigm shifts in their coverage of the gubernatorial campaign of Wendy Davis. From early stories that seemed intoxicated with the soaring hopes of the Texas Democrat, the tone has shifted to
Landon Donovan admits that he briefly rooted against the U.S. team after Jurgen Klinsmann cut him. The Los Angeles Times reports that Donovan’s initial response to what he thought was an injudicious removal from the roster was to root against
If you like taking a shower every day, don’t move to Las Vegas. The city is beginning to run out of water because Lake Mead is well below half-full and drying up, according to the UK Telegraph. The area has faced
Something is rotten in the state of General Motors, the company that Barack Obama bailed out. GM announced this past week that they would have to recall nearly 500,000 more cars for a variety of reasons, including: Recalibrating the transfer
The UCLA Daily Bruin reports that the Students for Justice in Palestine, an anti-Israel group, is pursuing Avi Oved, the new student regent-designate nominee for the UC Board of Regents, who is pro-Israel, with allegations of incomplete campaign finance reports
The ethics of a study conducted by Facebook in which users’ emotions were manipulated by targeted News Feed showings are being called into question. In a single week in January of 2012, Facebook News Feed’s algorithm was manipulated so that
The burgeoning power of the Latino community in California was illustrated this week by the death of a minimum wage hike proposal in the state Assembly. Despite the fact that the pro-business Latino Caucus is comprised totally of Democrats, one
A new Field poll released Friday reveals that Californians are growing increasingly disgusted with the state Legislature; only 35% approved of the Legislature while 47% disapproved of them. It appears the plunge in approval was catalyzed by the arrest of
A compromise bill that ostensibly would have pacified two California lobbyists who have been antagonists for years over property tax policy fell apart on Wednesday, the Sacramento Bee reports. Lenny Goldberg, who represents the California Tax Reform Association, yanked his support
Alysia Montano set a world record Thursday in the 800 meters for the fastest time by a bowling-ball pregnant runner. On Thursday in Sacramento, California, Montano, the five-time U.S. national champion in the 800 meters, including for the last four
With the news of a massive influx of immigrants on the southern border, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 22% of Americans favor increased immigration. Only 14% of Republicans, 23% of independents, and 27% of Democrats favor increased immigration.
In a frightening scenario, a woman hired as a live-in nanny in Upland, California is refusing to work, will not consent to being fired, and will not leave the family’s home. Instead, she is telling the family they must leave
One courageous member of the powerful state-employee union, SEIU Local 1000, is challenging the way they do business, trying to make public the union’s financial records. Miriam Noujaim, who works for the DMV, is fighting the state’s largest union with
While Iraq and the Middle East are falling apart, thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding the southern border of the United States, an American is being held hostage by the Palestinians, and the IRS scandal is exploding, Barack Obama found
The New York Times, easily shocked, reports that young teenagers in the cool crowd who tried to grow up too fast by hanging out with older teens, wearing makeup, or drinking beer and stealing condoms had problems later in life.
The National Organization for Marriage has received a $50,000 settlement from the IRS after the government agency admitted it was at fault for publishing confidential information about the organization’s donors gleaned from its tax returns. A federal court forced the
University of Michigan researchers have released a study stating that the disparity between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country has grown because of the Great Recession and the slow recovery. According to the study, the top 5%
According to the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act, or JOBS Act, in 2012, has stimulated at least eighty biotech companies to offer initial public offerings of stock, also known as IPOs, according to
First Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, in a move that some regarded as ridiculing LeBron James, counted out the five NBA championships that San Antonio has won at the city’s celebration of the Finals victory. Now a billboard announces to city
