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.
An eighth grade student in California was given detention after he shared some of his chicken burrito with a classmate who didn’t like the cafeteria’s lunch. Kyle Bradford told Central Pennsylvania’s Fox 43 that he just did what he thought was
Oceanside’s Ares Armor has stirred up controversy–and caught the eye of the Secret Service–with an AR-15 part called “Obama’s Blaster.” “Obama’s Blaster” is not a gun, but an upper receiver–a part for an AR-15 that has to be coupled with
A group of civil rights activists who initially jumped to the defense of Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts last week have changed their tune. They are now demanding that Watts apologize to the LAPD for suggesting police pulled the race card
Sometimes, enough is just enough. SO, an Asian fusion restaurant in San Francisco, closed down early on Thursday evening and lashed out at picky customers who reportedly demanded gluten-free cuisine and may have complained about the restaurant’s use of MSG.
A startup in Los Angeles is baking up marijuana-infused pizzas and delivering them right to patients’ doors, providing both a potent high and the inevitable munchies in one convenient package. Stoned Oven Gourmet Pizza bakes six-inch pizzas with 250 mg
Svitlana Sangary, a Los Angeles based litigation lawyer who promotes value-driven legal practices, has been suspended from the state bar for superimposing her face onto photographs of celebrities and politicians. The imagery shows Sangary posing with celebrity figures, while trying to
Cremated remains of nine victims of the Jonestown Massacre, which took over 900 lives, were recently discovered inside marked containers in a bank-owned funeral home in Delaware. Almost 36 years after American Preacher Jim Jones led his congregation of the
Saturday morning border crossings from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California’s San Ysidro port of entry, may see mass interruption in the flow of traffic and commerce from Mexico into the United States as “Shut Down All Ports of Entry”
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and his top counter-terrorism commanders met with Muslim leaders Thursday night at an Exposition Park mosque to discuss the rise of Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) amid concerns that the terrorist group would launch attacks and recruit
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Thursday that they are pulling an advertisement from their buses for a Fox TV program that shows a picture of black actress Octavia Spencer next to the words “Scary Bitch.” Spokesman Mark Littman told the
Proposition #1 isn’t a water infrastructure bond, it’s nothing more than a $7.12 Billion payoff to the enviro-extremists who control natural resources in California. What else do you call it when over 50% of the money is being used to
California officials said on Thursday that the enterovirus D68 has surfaced in southern California in four children, three from San Diego County and one in Ventura County who was visiting San Diego. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A man living in Arcadia, California was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly murdering his ex-girlfriend’s toddler in Louisville, Kentucky 43 years ago. Lawrence “Larry” Roger Beck, 65, is believed to have shaken 18-month-old Michael Ray Sanders in such a violent
This article was originally posted at Watchdog.org A high-profile academic center used federal funds to promote anti-Semitism on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles, a watchdog says. The university’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near East
The Los Angeles Unified School District is giving up “three grenade launchers” it acquired for its police department, but it will keep the “60 M16” rifles and an armored vehicle. According to the Associated Press, the district received the grenade
A man has been arrested for starting the enormous King fire, which has destroyed 70,000 acres of forest and catalyzed a huge evacuation of thousands of people. Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37, was booked on suspicion of arson, according to the
The Los Angeles Times ran a story on Wednesday reporting that California State Senator Steven Knight (R-Palmdale) had told fellow Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly “not to participate” in walking “precincts for him in Santa Clarita this weekend.” Donnelly is, in fact,
Beginning today, upwards of a thousand Republican leaders and activists from California’s 58 counties will converge on the Marriott Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport for the biannual convention of the California Republican Party. Party regulars gather at a particularly
Alanis Morissette told Oprah during an exclusive taping of “Super Soul Sunday” that her early stages of fame caused her to have PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by witnessing or experiencing a terrifying event.
Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts’ partner, Brian Lucas, has taken to social media to criticize what LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker said when he briefly detained Watts following a 911 call about alleged indecent exposure. However, much of what Lucas claims appears
82-year-old Jaguar owner Ivan Schnyder was a fresh 36-year-old attorney when his nearly new Bond ride was stolen from outside his New York City home. The James Bond style automobile was recently confiscated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at
“With the stroke of his pen, the Governor changed over 100 years of water laws – without the people’s input. This is not the democracy Californians deserve.” – State Senator Jim Nielsen In the midst of drought and heightened overdrafting
“Entrepreneur” is a French word for one who gets in the middle between a buyer and a seller. In the last couple of years, Silicon Valley start-ups such as Uber valued at $18 billion, Airbnb valued at $10 billion, and
On September 15, the Navy’s newest ship–America–“arrived in its home port of San Diego.” The America is destined for Marine Corps use but is a departure from previous ships in that it lacks a “well deck” from which Marines have
Local Palm Springs NBC News affiliate KMIR reports that a one-year-old boy was washed away in recent flash floods associated with the remnants of Hurricane Odile–and survived. The couple’s home in Joshua Tree, which they had moved into in August,
