U-T San Diego, a San Diego news source, speculated about the possibility that the Los Angeles Clippers’ new owner, after Donald Sterling bows out, could move the team back to San Diego. NBA commissioner Adam Silver is planning to have
The San Diego Union-Tribune speculated Tuesday about the possibility that the Los Angeles Clippers’ new owner–if Donald Sterling bows out–could move the team back to San Diego. NBA commissioner Adam Silver is planning to have a vote of the league’s owners to
Sen. Barbara Boxer, usually in lockstep with the Obama Administration, took a step out of line on Monday by tacitly criticizing Secretary of State John Kerry’s likening Israel to an apartheid state. Boxer tweeted that any statement that likened Israel
According to TMZ.com, Victor Willis, who owns the copyright on the song “Y.M.C.A.,” made famous by the Village People, has banned the song from being played at Los Angeles Clippers games because he is irate at Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling’s
The state of California is spending enormous amounts of cash because state workers who are either leaving or retiring are being compensated for vacation hours they have banked over the course of their careers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Compensation has
The Associated Press, in what seems like an attempt to write a U.S.-bashing article, notes breathlessly that in 2013, almost 3,000 Americans either renounced their citizenship or terminated their permanent residency in the U.S. Those 3,000 people comprise less than
Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO and founder of marketing company RadiumOne, was fired Saturday night after a scandal involving felony charges of domestic abuse toward his girlfriend. Though cameras caught him reportedly striking her 117 times over 30 minutes, Chahal’s final sentence
A high-tech executive was taken into custody after he allegedly brutally attacked a truck driver whose truck grazed his bicycle in a road rage incident on April 16. Jeffrey Smock, 40, the founder and former chief executive of the software
The Los Angeles Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown issued a new executive order addressing the state’s drought on Friday. The provisions include temporarily halting environmental regulations, urging restaurants to only serve water if customers request it, ordering homeowners associations
Guess who wrote the fawning blurb for CA Governor Jerry Brown’s inclusion in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people? The answer: Gray Davis, the former governor of California and once Brown’s chief of staff. Davis gushed: “Things
The Los Angeles Times reports that Barack Obama, taking advantage of the opportunity of being in a foreign country to stump for immigration reform, was scheduled to speak on Friday to a South Korean audience to make his pitch. Obama
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Alfredo Simon has been sued by a woman alleging that he sexually assaulted her in the historic Mayflower hotel in Washington. The Reds were in the nation’s capital to play the Washington Nationals at the time. In
On Wednesday, the California State Assembly Governmental Organization Committee in California discussed the viability of online poker in the state, as two online poker bills have been floated before the legislature, Steven Stradbrooke of CalvinAyre.com reports. Anita Lee, a state
According to the Los Angeles Times, a South Bay woman has won $75,000 from the TSA because the agency would not let her containers of breast milk through its screening without incident. Stacey Armato, who is an attorney, said that
The California Senate decided to take time out from its normal working routine and conduct a long-needed review of what constitutes ethical behavior. Two state senators have been charged with crimes by the FBI and another has been convicted of
The Los Angeles Times reports that Alberto Flores Ramirez, 36, of San Clemente, California, has been convicted of rape and sexual assault charges triggered in 2012 by convincing two women to undergo “spiritual cleansing” in which he rubbed raw eggs
Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Los Angeles, is determined to sell Huy Fong Foods, the makers of Sriracha Hot sauce, on the idea of moving their factory to San Fernando Valley. The saucemakers have been fighting with the city of Irwindale over
The Los Angeles Times reports California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants to make some major changes to the state’s educational system. He says, “We must change the status quo.” Some of those changes include: Taking the state money formerly
Cameron Booth, an Australian designer, has created a simplified road map of the Interstate and US highways of the continental United States that looks like a subway map, with straight lines connecting 4,385 different places along the way. Booth said:
The California Senate has passed a bill that would require genetically modified food to be labeled as such. This flies in the face of California voters’ defeat of Proposition 37 in 2012, a bill that would have required labels on
TMZ Sports reports that NBA superstar Joakim Noah filed suit against the company whose shoes he’s been advertising with his feet. Noah sues Le Coq Sportif, whose shoes Noah wore since 2007 in exchange for a 6-year $6 million deal.
The California Senate has passed a bill that would require genetically modified food to be labeled as such. This flies in the face of California voters’ defeat of Proposition 37 in 2012, a bill that would have required labels on
On April 6th, the Carson Scholars Fund, founded by Dr. Ben Carson and which “awards students who have embraced high levels of academic excellence and community service with $1,000 college scholarships,” publicly recognized three other individuals who have made a
More bizarre facts about California State Sen. Leland Yee are coming to light, and they range from receiving the severed head of a pig several years ago, to allegedly supporting or creating laws to benefit special interests who supplied him with
According to the Contra Costa Times, a new California state law that was written to protect students from teachers’ sexual misconduct had a brief loophole that allowed a teacher who was fired for alleged child sex abuse to be hired
