
Federal Election Commission Chairman Ann Ravel’s travel documents show she accepted a $160 a day rental car from the California Political Attorney Association (CPAA) while attending to attend a seminar in September.
by Robert Wilde11 Feb 2015, 10:17 AM PST0

Prompted by recent anti-Semitic incidents at the University of California at Davis, 23 human rights organizations, with a support base in the hundreds of thousands, have demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi conduct a formal investigation into Students for Justice in Palestine and a student senator for their involvement in acts of “hatred and bigotry on campus.”
by Paul Miller11 Feb 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sees people from around the world attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally–and San Diego is no exception. Apprehensions of illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico surged last October, including foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries, according to a source within CBP that spoke on condition of anonymity. One of those caught at the time sported a shirt that bore the name “Obama,” as shown in the above photo.
by Michelle Moons11 Feb 2015, 5:55 AM PST0

On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council approved a moratorium that will temporarily prohibit the Berkeley Police Department from using tear gas, rubber bullets and over-the-shoulder baton strikes when responding to non-violent protests.
by Adelle Nazarian11 Feb 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

A controversial referendum that reduced prison sentences for several categories of minor criminal offense is being blamed for a sharp rise in crime in parts of California, according to Seattle-based Fox News correspondent Dan Springer.
by Joel B. Pollak11 Feb 2015, 5:51 AM PST0

The slow-roll implementation of Obamacare threatens to close U.S. commercial ports on the West Coast.
by Mike Flynn10 Feb 2015, 2:52 PM PST0

A Ramona, California man smoking an e-cigarette found himself headed to the hospital after the device exploded, cutting his face and shattering a nearby display case at the Stage Stop liquor store Saturday.
by Michelle Moons10 Feb 2015, 2:03 PM PST0

A Sacramento woman who discovered her veteran father was not provided with a proper burial is suing the county. The county admitted to making the mistake in 2013 and reportedly agreed to move his remains to the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, where his remains should have gone in the first place.
by Adelle Nazarian10 Feb 2015, 1:54 PM PST0

Netflix announced Monday that its service is now available in Cuba for those with an Internet connection and access to international payment methods. In a statement, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the company is “delighted” to bring its collection of
by Daniel Nussbaum10 Feb 2015, 12:31 PM PST0

On January 6, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission employee Martin Sanchez, who makes $111,000 a year, decided he didn’t want to take the time to look for a bathroom, so instead he decided to urinate in the closest place available: the Priest Reservoir.
by William Bigelow10 Feb 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

Boston Dynamics, owned by Google since 2013, has released a video of its new robot dog, Spot, in which workers try to kick it over, first gently and then more violently.
by William Bigelow10 Feb 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

Until recently, Apple, like the queen in Snow White, may have been the fairest visionary company of all, but there’s a Snow White company challenging Apple as the cutting edge of business: Tesla.
by William Bigelow10 Feb 2015, 9:40 AM PST0

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed in a memo on Monday that the league as a whole, not individual teams, will make decisions on franchise relocation.
by Robert Wilde10 Feb 2015, 8:31 AM PST0

U.S. Border Patrol agents caught four illegal aliens attempting to enter the country on jet skis Sunday night. The four were spotted traveling past the Imperial Beach pier, off the southern California coastline.
by Michelle Moons10 Feb 2015, 4:36 AM PST0

With the aging B-2 Stealth Bomber’s design dating back to the 1970 disco days of the Carter Administration, the Air Force just opened a competition to build the next strategic bomber. The “B-3” pits teams from Northrop Grumman that built the B-2 versus Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which built the B-52 bomber and F-35 strike aircraft. No matter who wins the bid, the plane will be designed in California’s Antelope Valley.
by Chriss W. Street10 Feb 2015, 4:30 AM PST0

Measles isn’t the only disease infiltrating the immune systems of Californians. Whooping cough is back, rising through 2014 and highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of the childhood vaccine. In response, public health officials are encouraging booster shots in adults and older children.
by Michelle Moons10 Feb 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown is one of the individuals Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin believes has a serious shot at cinching the Democratic nomination for president in 2016–should Hillary Clinton not run as expected.
by Adelle Nazarian10 Feb 2015, 3:30 AM PST0

Kuzj was doing a live report on measles from Hollywood when a man attempted to intrude on his shot. So, Kuzj did what he had to do: he casually shoved the man, hard, right out of the shot–and continued as if nothing had happened.
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by Daniel Nussbaum10 Feb 2015, 3:00 AM PST0

Domino’s Pizza’s ban on delivery drivers possessing guns didn’t help a 22-year-old delivery woman raped and robbed in Antioch, California.
by AWR Hawkins9 Feb 2015, 2:21 PM PST0

Ajit Pai, one of two Republican Commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), inferred in a tweet that President Barack Obama’s secret, 332-page “Net Neutrality” document is a scheme for federal micro-managing of the Internet to extract billions in new taxes from consumers and again enforce progressives’ idea of honest, equitable, and balanced content fairness.
by Chriss W. Street9 Feb 2015, 1:11 PM PST0

A prime suspect, who was arrested and later released in connection with the gruesome discovery of a suitcase filled with human body parts in San Francisco, died on Sunday. Mark Jeffrey Andrus, 54, died at a city hospital after after going into
by Adelle Nazarian9 Feb 2015, 12:34 PM PST0

On his weekly Friday night panel discussion during his show Real Time, Bill Maher wasted no time jumping into the vaccination debate. Maher suggested that vaccines are preventable if people would simply eat better, attacked genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and defended climate change to make his own argument that inconsistencies within the medical profession are all the more reason not to trust vaccines.
by Adelle Nazarian9 Feb 2015, 12:14 PM PST0

California Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) has introduced legislation to protect Californians from being falsely accused of gun violence in the new era of “Gun Violence Restraining Orders” (GVROs).
by AWR Hawkins9 Feb 2015, 11:56 AM PST0

A man was shot and killed Saturday night at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue in the fourth violent incident to occur in the area in the past 19 months.
by Daniel Nussbaum9 Feb 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

According to a new study released by the California Journal of Politics & Policy, Proposition 14, which was intended to entice voters toward more moderate positions by allowing the top two vote-getting candidates in the open primary to advance to a November run-off, has failed.
by William Bigelow9 Feb 2015, 11:52 AM PST0