A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
Three nudists were arrested in The Castro district of San Francisco after failing to obey the city’s ban on public nudity.
A student at Florin High School in Sacramento tested positive for tuberculosis last week, prompting the school to schedule testing for the disease among 150 other students beginning Tuesday, according to Capital Public Radio.
Notorious mass murderer and current prison inmate Charles Manson, 80, will have to obtain a new marriage license if he wants to tie the knot with his 26-year-old girlfriend, as the pair’s 90-day license expires this week.
The sudden outbreak of measles across the United States raises questions about how the disease arrived in the country after it was eradicated here in 2000. A quick review of the U.S. State Department visa requirements for immigrant visas reveals that applicants must be vaccinated for measles prior to their approval. Measles vaccination is not required for tourist visas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nor are they required for any other disease.
It is often said that the President controls foreign policy, and that there is little Congress can do, within its more limited foreign policy mandate, to direct it. The Republican-controlled Congress–and the U.S. House of Representatives in particular–has defied that conventional wisdom by stopping President Barack Obama’s worst foreign policy blunder by far–namely, the effort to end U.S. control over Internet domain names, which would have boosted the enemies of freedom.
The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward to help police catch perpetrators of the recent vandalism of a Jewish fraternity at the University of California Davis, which was found Saturday morning spray-painted with swastikas.
While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come out in solidarity with the Jewish community.
Concerns have arisen over the perceived teaching of Islam in California’s seventh grade school curriculum.
Video has emerged from a meeting of student representatives at the University of California Davis last week in which Muslim students shout “Allahu Akbar” at a group of Jewish students holding Israeli flags and leaving the meeting.
Apple already has a strong relationship with Yahoo as the default data source on the iPhone for the device’s very slick stocks and weather apps. After Alibaba’s September public offering gave Yahoo billions in cash, Mayer appears willing to go to war with Google to bring search dominance back to Yahoo.
A new case of measles caused the shutdown of a Santa Monica High School day care center Monday after one of its infant attendees was diagnosed the disease. The current outbreak began in California’s Disneyland theme park with 74 of the 107 recent cases linked to the Magic Kingdom point of origin.
Jewish students at the University of California at Davis awoke Saturday morning to swastikas spray-painted on their fraternity house.
A new settlement will require California elementary school kids to take gym classes.
With the release of the film version of Fifty Shades of Grey just a couple of weeks away, eager fans can get a taste of the real thing before the film opens on Valentine’s Day by heading to Sheri’s Ranch Resort & Spa in Pahrump, Nevada, 60 miles east of Las Vegas.
San Diego State University professor David Blair’s medical marijuana dispensary, “A Green Alternative,” is set to be the first legally operating shop in San Diego since being approved last July and beating a permit challenge.
Parishioners praying Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday were confronted by one dozen demonstrators protesting the Pope’s decision to canonize Father Junipero Serra.
Instead of paying the record-breaking $4.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl XLIX ad in hopes of going viral, Tesla apparently leaked a cell phone video of its blazingly fast Model X crossover, ripping it on a California pier and dominating downloads over the weekend.
Never ceasing to seek out new ways to boost performance, bodybuilders have been turning to a fresh infusion to their muscle building routine: breastmilk. Much debate has circled around the controversial practice, but recently some San Diego pro bodybuilders weighed
After the improbable finish to Super Boxl XLIX, it seems natural to blame Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and his team for calling a pass from the 1-yard line with less than 30 seconds to play, rather than handing the ball to Marshawn Lynch. But while it’s understandable that a Seattle fan might feel Carroll’s was “the worst call in Super Bowl history,” it wasn’t bad. And it was actually New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick’s call the play before that won the game.
Cries and screams coming from a parked car in Hanford California, alerted a man to come over to the vehicle where he found a 16-year-old girl with her hands bound and her face beaten to the point of not being able to open her eyes.
A controversy has erupted in Stockton, CA over the fatal shooting of a man armed with a claw hammer. According to the police, just before midnight on Tuesday, they received a call from Matautu Nuu’s family, frightened because he was drunk, armed with a hammer, and vandalizing the residence.
Los Angeles officials and leaders will attempt to raise $10 million to help illegal immigrants apply for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty program.
The Ronald Reagan Library debuted an exhibit on Saturday which pays tribute to California’s fallen men and women. The “Remembering Our Fallen” exhibit honors the 725 lives that perished making the ultimate sacrifice by serving to protect the United States
A Jewish fraternity at the University of California Davis was spray-painted with two swastikas Saturday, several days after the student council voted to endorse divestment from Israel. (Photo: StandWithUs via Facebook)
The San Francisco Police Department detained “a person of interest” Friday evening after receiving an anonymous tip related to video footage police released after the gruesome discovery of human remains inside an abandoned suitcase on Wednesday.
