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.
A man from Northern California was arrested Thursday and charged with animal cruelty, domestic violence, stalking and false imprisonment after his ex-girlfriend said they reconciled for a meal he had cooked and served for her: her dog. Ryan Watenpaugh’s ex-girlfriend
After waiting more than six months after a Democratic State Senator was convicted of lying about living in the district he represented, outgoing State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) finally issued a public call for Roderick Wright’s resignation,
SAN DIEGO, California — A new class action lawsuit joins in the relentless criticism of SeaWorld. Investors are seeking to recover losses through the suit, claiming that SeaWorld violated securities law by deceiving investors for not initially acknowledging the effects
LOS ANGELES, California — A new poll conducted by USC Dornsife in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times found that only one in four likely California voters are able to identify Governor Jerry Brown’s Republican opponent Neel Kashkari. According to the
California consumers posting bad reviews of companies they have patronized can relax; the state has passed a bill, AB 2365, protecting the authors of such reviews from being sued by those companies. One typical website posting reviews, Yelp, wrote on
Huge waves racked the Malibu coastline on Friday, undermining the foundation of many multimillion dollar homes of the rich and famous. Unfortunately, due to the extreme nature of the erosion over the years, the homes have little chance of remaining
Digital First Media, the New York owner and operator of the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain, announced Friday that it will “evaluate and consider strategic alternatives” that could lead to a quick sale of some or all of the hedge fund-sponsored
California will remain in tact and will not be split into six pieces following the failure of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s “Six Californias” initiative to secure a spot on the November 2016 ballot due to insufficient signatures. The
A group of unknown, “heavily-armed” men dressed in camouflage have been dropping from helicopters into marijuana fields in Mendocino County in order to chop down plants and eradicate growing operations. According to CBS San Francisco’s KPIX, one of the groups
Friday, after more than a half year of delays, State Senator Rod Wright was sentenced to 90 days in jail after having been found guilty in January of eight felony counts of election fraud and perjury. Wright had been prosecuted
What started out as an innocent crush at a California high school has resulted in a 14-year-old girl named Arika being home schooled because of potentially damaging video footage of her “hooking up” with a boy from her school. The
Tensions are high near a Los Gatos nudist resort after a neighboring open space district accused the nudists of stealing water from the district and using it to keep the resort open amid California’s devastating drought. On Thursday, rangers from
Following the September 6 death of the widely praised 66-year-old Bishop Cirilo Flores, head of the San Diego Diocese, after a bout with cancer, a temporary administrator needed to be elected to maintain the status quo in the diocese for six to
A cold demonstration of thievery unfolded on Wednesday night at an Orangevale day care center for children when crooks broke into the Action Day Learning Center and siphoned gas from their transportation vans. CBS reported that according to ADLC staff member Lauri
Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright was sentenced on Friday to 90 days in jail, three years of probation, and 1,500 hours of community service after being convicted on federal perjury and voting fraud charges in January. Wright is also banned
Despite widespread disenchantment with increased militarization of local law enforcement agencies across the nation, the San Diego Unified School District police recently added a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, to their arsenal of emergency vehicles. The SDUSD can’t complain
President Barack Obama has accepted Governor Jerry Brown’s request to declare a major disaster for Napa and Solano Counties following the crippling 6.0 magnitude earthquake that shook the region on Aug. 24, making emergency federal funds available to victims of
When former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived at the unveiling of his official portrait in the state Capitol this week, someone was conspicuously missing from his portrait: his former wife, Maria Shriver. Sources told the San Francisco Chronicle that the
SAN DIEGO, California — “What is the source of our liberties?” United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia asked a room brimming with lawyers. Thursday morning’s Federalist Society event in San Diego featured the controversial jurist, who stressed how distinctive
A high school football booster club in Ventura was prohibited from selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches at its back-to-school night event because the principal didn’t like the restaurant owner’s position on gay marriage, according to CBS Los Angeles. Val Wyatt, principal of
Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada signed a package of bills on September 11 to provide Tesla Motors $1.3 billion tax breaks as reward for the company choosing to build its $5 billion Gigafactory in the state. The facility might eventually provide
Early Wednesday morning, approximately 1,000 law enforcement officials raided Los Angeles businesses throughout the city’s Fashion District, resulting in nine arrests and what has now been determined to be over $100 million in cash seizures, according to Thom Mrozek, a
LOS ANGELES, California — A visibly irked woman posted a sign in Los Angeles this week warning dog owners that she would personally follow them home and defecate on their doorsteps and the windshields of their cars if they failed
California is home to the most “geniuses” by way of transplants, according to the MacArthur Foundation; an organization that has since 1981 hand-selected and provided grants to individuals they deem to be among society’s most intellectually superior. Vice President of the
Calico, a company led by former Genetech CEO Art Levinson and backed by Mountain View-based Google Inc. said on September 11th that it had inked a $1.5 billion, 10-year research and commercialization deal with AbbVie Inc. to develop treatments for Parkinson’s and Lou
