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.
Rapper Snoop Dogg celebrates that Los Angeles seems poised to see the return of the National Football League. During a promo tour for his new ESPN show “Snoop & Son,” the singer noted that L.A. “deserved” the return of NFL
With the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in full swing, it’s time to take a look at some of the most revolutionary (or just plain fun) toys coming out of the conference.
Kamala Harris, perhaps planting seeds for a future Governor or Senatorial run, announced during her swearing in for her second and final term as Attorney General that her agency plans to investigate the use of force by law enforcement agents.
They were warned.
You do not need to know–or even like–Dershowitz to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he is not guilty of the terrible crime of which he has accused in this tabloid scandal.
A man whom San Francisco police officers shot and killed Sunday when he pulled a gun from his waistband while trespassing on private police property had personally planned his own demise. He had written several suicide notes on his phone, one of which was addressed to police officers.
Teens brandishing lingerie and silk robes boozed it up for a Playboy Mansion-themed birthday bash under what appears to be the not-so-watchful eye of 18-year-old birthday girl Olivia Lake’s father Jeff Lake and other adults in Poway, California Friday night. Mr. Lake was reportedly arrested when neighbors’ complaints led San Diego County sheriff’s deputies to put an end to the party.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, lately obsessed with climate change, euphorically described California Governor Jerry Brown as “shockingly effective” after attending Brown’s swearing-in Monday morning and Brown’s subsequent speech.
Jerry Brown made various claims and stated various goals in his State of the State Address on Monday, some of which are inaccurate, some of which are more “Governor Moonbeam.”
Like a perpendicular lake of ice and over one half mile from base to tip, El Capitan remains one of the great challenges for all rock climbers. Now two climbers for the first time in history are taking the most vertical of all of the 100 routes up the face and doing it without any ropes other than to catch their fall.
In 2011, we were handed a mess and through solid, steady work we turned it around. While we have not reached the Promised Land, we have much to be proud of.
San Francisco police fatally shot a man on Sunday after he trespassed onto clearly marked, restricted police property and pulled out what appeared to be a pistol but turned out to be an airsoft BB gun. The man was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards from his wounds.
The parents and uncle of a baby girl kidnapped Saturday evening from the family’s home in Long Beach, California were shot as the abductor took off with the infant. Hours later, a baby girl was found dead in a dumpster over a hundred miles south in Imperial Beach, California.
Empire Robotics’ Versaball robot has been hailed for its ability to grip a multitude of objects in a unique way: by using a giant inflatable sand-filled ball attached to a robot arm. The applications are practically limitless…which is why Empire Robotics has programmed the robot to be a beer pong phenom.
Recalling his father’s inauguration as governor 56 years ago, Brown said that many of the same challenges still persist, including discrimination, education, and air pollution. “These problems–they never completely go away.”
Low-risk, female inmates at Downtown Los Angeles’s Twin Towers jail design and deliver over 1,000 warm blankets to children who are sick or in foster care each year, just in time for the cold winter.
California Governor Jerry Brown is set to be sworn in for his fourth term at the state capitol today, and will combine the ceremony with his annual ‘State of the State’ address. The governor won re-election comfortably in November, and
Last November, protesters now known as the “Black Friday 14” were charged with criminal offenses and assessed fines totaling $70,000 for actions including chaining themselves to BART trains in West Oakland–offenses for which other “Black Lives Matter” activist groups are
Riverside County firefighters freed a naked woman from a fireplace Saturday, posting photos of the rescue to Twitter that show the woman’s soot-laden legs dangling through a hole they had opened to free her.
Saturday political activists gathered in South Central Los Angeles demanding that Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey file murder charges against two officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man in an altercation.
A security guard at an adult store in Anaheim, California was able to thwart a violent holdup and robbery attempt using a machete to subdue the would-be thief.
Thousands of illegal immigrants flooded California’s DMVs on Friday as the Golden State began processing appointments and giving exams that will grant approximately 1.4 million driver’s licenses over the course of the next three years.
Despite all the pain Americans suffered from sub-prime lending, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) are once again pushing low-income people with little or financial cushion into dicey mortgage loans.
Although Northern California is at 140% average rainfall so far this year, the state is still in the equivalent of one of its worst droughts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently downgraded its estimated probability of El Niño torrential rains developing this winter to approximately 65%.
It is no surprise that many Americans think that government represents the greatest threat to their future. In that light, Californians have reason to dread the convening of the legislature, which starts back up Monday.
