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.
MALIBU, California — Actor/director Rob Reiner and Los Angeles Police Commission President Steve Soboroff went after each other in a fiercely contentious debate Sunday night over Measure R, an effort on the upcoming ballot to restrict the number of chain
On Friday, Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte–an illegal alien criminal–allegedly shot and killed two sheriff’s deputies in the Northern California counties of Sacramento and Placer. He also allegedly shot another man in the head for resisting a car-jacking. Monroy-Bracamonte had been deported twice before
A Humboldt County parolee allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine allegedly drove a stolen golf cart on the 101 freeway in an effort to escape from the California Highway Patrol. According to a CHP press release, Cory Peterson allegedly stole a golf
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, lobbying hard for his the city, has made his sixth trip to Washington D.C. since he was sworn as mayor, the Los Angeles Times reports. Garcetti fended off criticism of his jet-setting, saying, “You are always criticized
The first U.S. Service member to die in Iraq since the Obama Administration initiated “Inherent Resolve,” the operation to fight Islamic State, was Marine Lance Cpl. Sean Neal, a 19-year-old from California, according to the Pentagon. Neal reportedly died in
“Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens?” That is the question posed by political scientists Jesse Richman and David Earnest, who answer in a forthcoming article in the journal Electoral Studies: “Most
The California Republican Taxpayers Association (CRTA), a group exposed by John Hrabe of the Flash Report for its campaign mail irregularities, has struck again–this time sending a mailer to Los Angeles-area voters that includes a Republican candidate who is not
Antonio Holmes, the 38-year-old car salesman allegedly shot Friday by suspect Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte–who had been deported twice from the U.S.–has been upgraded to “fair” condition after being wounded in the head and enduring eight hours of surgery. “Anthony Holmes is a
Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has leveraged his past NBA basketball career into political success. This Nov. 4, he is asking the voters of California’s capital city to approve Measure L, which would concentrate power in his office. He is being
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Feds: Man suspected of killing deputies during California shooting rampage was twice deported.
Marcelo Marquez allegedly shot and killed a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy and a Placer County Sheriff’s Deputy, and also allegedly shot and wounded a second Placer County deputy and a civilian on Friday. On Saturday, authorities revealed that the suspect
Arrested at his Covina residence Wednesday afternoon, San Gabriel Valley physician Dr. Daniel Cham faces a 31-count indictment that alleges the doctor illegally distributed drugs including potent, addictive narcotic painkillers and muscle relaxers to the tune of over 42,000 illegal
A California Highway Patrol officer confessed to investigators that he and fellow officers have been sharing nude cell phone photos of suspected female DUI suspects. According to search warrant records obtained by the Contra Costa Times, CHP Officer Sean Harrington,
A new device from the Burglinghame, California-based startup Breathometer, called the Breeze, is a breathalyzer that lets drivers with smartphones learn if they are intoxicated before getting pulled over by police. It even lets them summon an Uber if they
On Friday, San Diego County health officials confirmed that another San Diego County student has been diagnosed with the same strain of the meningococcal bacteria that killed a San Diego State University freshman last week. Fox5 reported that the unidentified
On October 24, Placer County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael David Davis Jr. was killed in the line of duty – exactly 26 years to the day after his father–Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael David Davis–was also killed in the line of duty.
Although lousy quarterly earnings would result in lower stock prices for most companies, shareholders gave Amazon a pass for over a decade as the high-tech company rapidly grew top-line sales to become America’s Everything Store. But in a year when
Luis Felipe Avila-Flores of the “El Monte Flores” criminal street gang was arrested Wednesday when Border Patrol agents caught him illegally entering the United States in the Calexico, California region Wednesday. Avila, a 29-year-old Mexican national, revealed his participation in
On October 24 Marcelo Marquez shot and killed one sheriff and one deputy, and wounded another deputy and a civilian in the Sacramento area. The shooting began around 10:20 a.m. and Marquez was captured around 4 p.m. He is described
The NYPD revealed in a press conference on Friday that Zale Thompson, the hatchet-weilding lone Muslim terrorist who attempted to ax four police officers to death in a Queens, New York subway on Thursday had several prior arrests in Oxnard,
A Sacramento ambulance was called upon to administer to a possible Ebola case, but it proved to be a false alarm. According to Fox40, the Sacramento Metro Fire handled the situation with an abundance of caution, yet they reacted swiftly
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been learning Mandarin Chinese and is “búcuò” (translation: not bad/pretty good) at it. The move appears to be part of Zuckerberg’s attempt to foster a better relationship between China and his corporation, despite the People’s
There is at least one big payoff to being a powerful Democrat in California–literally, in the most recent case. Former California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg admitted that when he leaves the state government on November 30, he will head for
A Fresno seventh-grader who sold marijuana-laced brownies to a fellow classmate at Sequoia Middle School was booked on juvenile drug charges on Thursday. According to the Fresno Bee, the unnamed 12-year-old boy sold two pot brownies for $5 each to
A new Public Policy Institute of California poll reveals that the huge lead California Governor Jerry Brown holds over his challenger, Neel Kashkari, can be attributed to one salient factor: Brown’s massive lead among Latino voters. The poll’s data show
