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.
Amazon has found a way to turn lemons into lemonade by donating 1,000 of its troubled Fire phones to advancing the mission of a free Ebola prevention app called Ebola Care. Aid workers in West Africa who are combatting the deadly
Rami Even-Esh, a Jewish rapper with the stage name Kosha Dillz, claims that ISIS supporters hacked his website in October. Even-Esh asked fans on his website, “My site is hacked by ISIS. Bad promo or good?” The story first surfaced
Political observers in California–notably Dan Morain of the Sacramento Bee–remain outraged over the tactics used by Mike Gipson, 47, to win California Assembly District 64 over Prophet Walker, 26. In one mailer, Gipson depicted Walker as a violent criminal in a
A demolition crew working to clear space in downtown Fresno for California’s high-speed rail inadvertently uncovered a more than 100-year old tunnel once used to move raisins underground between two factories. According to the Fresno Bee, crews were dismantling the
Following a protest on Thursday by nurses around the globe wanting stricter protections for health-care workers working with Ebola patients, on Friday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that the state would institute strict new standards. Doctors, nurses
Candace Marie Brito and Vanesa Tapia Zavala were sentenced to six years in prison for the senseless beating to death of Annie Kim Pham after a scuffle broke out just after midnight January 18 outside of a Santa Ana nightclub.
The struggling Orange County Register, a staple in California for over one hundred years, has asked its employees to deliver its newspapers on Sundays in order to keep costs down. The Register had contracted with the Los Angeles Times for
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) found one of the city’s top wanted fugitives in a most unusual way: using Facebook. Even though Eduardo Rodriguez, accused of murdering four people in 2001, had been shown on America’s Most Wanted, he
Fighting over the issue of illegal immigration is no foreign struggle in the once golden state of California, which hosts estimated millions of these individuals. Obama announcing impending executive action granting legal status to millions of illegal aliens brings only
Many investors are perplexed that Twitter could have a successful analyst meeting that sent the social networking stock up 7.5% on Wednesday, after announcing a slew of enhancements to its core services–then lose most of the gain the next day.
Less than two months after the Orange County Register stopped contracting with rival newspaper the Los Angeles Times for delivery services, the Register asked reporters and other staff members to help deliver their newspapers. On Friday, the Times wrote that, “The unusual requests signal that problems persist
With oil prices crashing, discount airline Virgin Atlantic’s IPO on Friday was a barn burner. Trading under the symbol “VA,” the stock opened about 25% higher than its estimated offering price at $27, then moved up to end the day
A new shuffle in leadership at online microblogging site Reddit has ushered in interim CEO Ellen Pao, who has become the company’s new face just three months before her high-profile sex discrimination case is set to appear before a San
The Coalition for Community Control Over the Police are organizing activists across the United States to rally if a Ferguson grand jury decides not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown on August 9. A grand
Nationally, Republicans had an outstanding election earlier this month. Besides the huge gains in the U.S. Senate, House Republicans made modest gains (12 seats), bringing their majority to an impressive 244 of 435 members. That said, one cannot help but
An off-duty San Diego Police officer was stabbed by his brother multiple times Friday morning when he intervened to protect their parents at their apartment in Chula Vista, California. After the aggressor began stabbing his brother, the off-duty officer responded
Following an 11-year manhunt for an America’s Most Wanted fugitive and alleged Toonerville street gang member accused of the murders of four people, authorities have finally captured Eduardo Rodriguez (born Juan Carlos Campos Gamino) — using Facebook. The investigator who cracked the
Speaking at The Lodge at Torrey Pines in San Diego on Thursday, UBS Financial’s chief information officer, Michael Woloshin, said that millennials are not buying homes at the rate their parents once did. “It’s not that they don’t want to
Big bucks Wall Street traders were flabbergasted that, after a year of lousy performance, huge internal battles at Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO) that led to demands to fire Bill Gross, Barry Ritholtz of the View reported Gross had pocketed an
OAKLAND, California –Nearly 20,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses throughout Northern California took to the streets in protest on Tuesday and Wednesday, touting at least 30 agenda items, including calls for Ebola preparedness and complaints about staff cuts. Their goal: to bring
California Governor Jerry Brown and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval met at a forum on Thursday for the first in a series of year-long meetings on how best to combat the West’s devastating drought, now in its fourth year. According to
On November 7, a group of Los Angeles City Council members introduced a proposal requiring guns in the home be “stored in locked containers” or rendered temporarily inoperable via a trigger lock. The proposal’s sponsor, Councilman Paul Krekorian (D-Dist.
Advocates for higher taxes in California have plans for 2016 that include a wide variety of ways to siphon funds from California voters. Tax hikers are preparing prospective initiatives that would include making Proposition 30 taxes permanent, instituting a property
Fear, distrust and racial tension pervades South Los Angeles three months after an unarmed African American was fatally shot by two Los Angeles Police Department officers last August during a violent physical struggle. KTLA reported that Los Angeles police, city
Getty House, the Los Angeles mayoral mansion currently occupied by Mayor Eric Garcetti, uses approximately 2,100 gallons of water a day, five times the average amount of water used by other Los Angeles households. According to CBS Los Angeles, the
