A new musical called Clinton: The Musical is set to debut at the New York Musical Theater Festival this summer from July 18-25. It will be showcased at Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a New Jersey appeal of lower court decisions upholding a prohibition on sports gambling in the state. There is a federal ban on a sports book in the state, but
In Vallejo, California, on Monday morning, a driver who had a seizure lost control of his truck and hurtled into a McDonald’s drive-thru, according to SFGate.com. The truck picked up speed as it smashed into three cars, then finally came
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters, going so far as to confirm a sentence of death for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 182 supporters, while the United States is finally
Mira Slovak, 84, who made world headlines in 1953 when he hijacked his DC-3 and flew it from Czechoslovakia to West Germany, has died at the age of 83 in Fallbrook, California. Slovak, the youngest captain in the state-run Czechoslovakian
Former Baylor star Isaiah Austin, 20, projected as a first-round pick in the upcoming NBA draft, has been diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a life-threatening condition affecting his heart. He says he will not play basketball again. Austin, who is 7’1″,
The Los Angeles Times reports that despite California Governor Jerry Brown crowing in early 2013, “The prison emergency is over in California,” prison costs have skyrocketed, the prisons are overflowing with criminals, and the overflow has prompted the state to
Zaharie Shah, the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that vanished on March 8, was at home practicing takeoff and landings in remote locations before he piloted the plane. Some of the locations Shah used as targets included airstrips in
Don Miyada, a 17-year-old Japanese-American in 1942 who missed his Newport Harbor High School graduation because he and his family were sent to an internment camp, finally took part in his high school’s graduation on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports.
John Whitmore, a 65-year-old man from Los Angeles, died on Friday as a result of being beaten by two women while he waited for a train on a Metro platform in South Los Angeles. Sgt. Kim Manatt of the Los
On Thursday, nine minutes after an Amber Alert was issued, the man accused of kidnapping three children was found and arrested. The mini-saga started at 7 a.m. when Matthew Kline of Oroville allegedly kidnapped his two children, 3-year-old Ella Kline
California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton, attempting to take the bull by the horns, wrote Texas Gov. Rick Perry a letter chiding him for criticizing California and urging him to march in the June 29 Pride Parade in San Francisco.
The Los Angeles Times reports that on Thursday, the California Senate approved a bill that would restrict high school and middle school football teams’ practices both during the off-season and the regular season. The bill, AB 2127, from Assemblyman Ken
TMZ Sports reports that Mickey Mantle’s moving farewell address, which he wrote as he was dying in 1995, has sold at an auction for $24,000. Mantle wrote the note on a PGA scorecard just before he gave a speech on
ESPN reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, is scheduled to appear Thursday in court to argue that her husband and his attorneys have threatened, intimidated, and harassed witnesses scheduled to testify in the July
A San Francisco man who stole two $29.99 watches from a Sears counter saw his life sentence for the crime upheld by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday because of California’s three-strikes law. Richard
Forty-seven thousand children have entered the United States illegally since last October, and the media were finally given access to see how some of them are housed in U.S. Border Patrol stations in South Texas and Arizona. Most of the children
The citizen chauffeurs of UberX and Lyft are battling insurance companies, taxicabs and limousines over whether UberX and Lyft drivers should be required to obtain permits from the airports they serve as well as carry $1 million in insurance even when they
Covering for California governor Jerry Brown, the California legislature has allotted $250 million gleaned from “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas fees on businesses to make it look as though Brown’s bullet train is still a viable idea. But as Dan Walters notes
Jumping on the bandwagon Hillary Clinton revved up with her comment saying she and her husband were broke when they left the White House, Barack Obama said Tuesday that his wife is “kind of a bad example” for the need
A suicide bomber on a tricycle taxi detonated explosives in an outdoor World Cup viewing center in Damaturua, Nigeria, killing at least 14 people and injuring at least 26 more. The BBC reported that a source informed them that the
The next president pro tem of the California state Senate will be Democratic state Sen. Kevin de León of Los Angeles, who was elected Monday. De León, 47, a Democrat, asserted that one of his highest priorities will be to
The battle between Idaho Republican Congressman Raúl R. Labrador and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy to replace Eric Cantor as House majority leader features two wholly different strategies. Labrador is working the media, according to analysts, in an attempt to convince voters
House GOP members determined to show that the actions of Barack Obama and his minions triggered the IRS targeting of politically conservative groups have released a 77-page report detailing the connections. According to the report from the House Committee on
A new poll from CNN/ORC International shows more than 60% of the American public thinks the Obama Administration has been dishonest about how it has procured information related to the terror attack on the Benghazi compound and the subsequent massacre. The poll found only
