Only Bay Area Has Recovered from Great Recession in CA
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.

A recent crime wave of random attacks known as “knockout games” hit the North Park neighborhood of San Diego Sunday. An unsuspecting woman was struck from behind and rendered unconscious. According to San Diego Police Sgt. Shawn Takeuchi, the incident occurred

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that although San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to fund relief efforts for the 200-250 immigrant children who are entering the city every month, Mayor Ed Lee nixed a huge shelter for the

The Washington Post is speculating that California Governor Jerry Brown might challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2016. We all know his weaknesses: job-crushing regulations that have kept California’s economy from taking off; an advanced age

This past weekend, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the featured speaker at a gathering for Silicon Valley conservatives called Lincoln Labs Reboot 2014. The conferencewas devoted to the question: How can technology and liberty exist side by side? Sen. Paul

On Saturday, 200 people marched through the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles protesting racial profiling and gun violence on the first anniversary of the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. The crowd, led by Trayvon Martin’s parents, carried

The ongoing battle between the children of deceased American Top 40 radio host Casey Kasem and his widow and wife from a second marriage Jean Kasem, has reached a whole new level of “pure insanity” with allegations that the radio

LOS ANGELES — Max Steinberg of Woodland Hills was one of two Americans among the 13 elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers killed in Gaza on Sunday morning, according to Israeli news sources and the local Jewish Journal. Jared Sichel

In the wake of the suspected Russian downing of a passenger plane over the eastern Ukraine, the expiration and renewal of nuclear talks with Iran, and the overnight deaths of more than a dozen Israeli soldiers (including two U.S. citizens)

The Backstreet Boys won’t be rocking out in Israel later this month as originally planned. The reasons, though, are pragmatic rather than ideological, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The former boy band sold out three July shows, representing their first

Newly-released federal reports indicate that glare from California’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in San Bernardino County poses an aviation risk for those flying between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The federally-funded Sandia National Laboratories report, which was released on

On Thursday, a U.S. Drought Monitor map revealed that 81% of California is considered to be in extreme drought or worse. This represents a jump from 68% just three months ago, according to climatologists at the National Drought Mitigation Center

A search of two prominent real estate websites in the greater Los Angeles area reveals that Latino surnames are the most common among current homeowners. Asian surnames are most common among luxury real estate owners in the region. The surveys

On July 18, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed AB 1964, adding single shot handguns to California’s unsafe gun roster. Single shot handguns had previously been exempt. According to the Los Angeles Times, the measure was sponsored by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson

The Middle East War between Israel and Hamas has had international ripples, even making its way to California, where reactions vary regarding the battle between Western democracy and an Islamic terrorist organization. A 10-day-old conflict between the two was taken

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari compared himself to former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, noting that Schwarzenegger was defeated by a conglomerate of the state’s unions because “he needed to be loved.” Kashakari’s remark was

CBS13 in Sacramento reported on the outrage of one family to a decision by a federal judge that the California death penalty is unconstitutional. Santa Ana-based Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote on Wednesday of the 1995 death sentence of Ernest D. Jones,

A California couple is caught between a green and a brown spot, because they received threatening letters on the same day from the state and their home city, with one demanding that they cut water usage for lawn watering, while

The upside of hosting a Obama fundraiser is that you are assured that no matter what happens he’ll show up. Passenger plane shot down over Ukraine that same day — he shows up. U.S. Ambassador murdered in a Libyan terrorist

SURFERS’ COVE, California — Perfect surf conditions were reported Friday morning at Surfers’ Cove, off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Dozens of surfers hung out throughout the morning, many without wetsuits in warmer-than-usual conditions. Elsewhere, the UN Security

China is cracking down after the CCTV state-owned broadcaster secretly recorded a state-owned bank executive bragging that the bank illegally provides in-house money laundering services for wealthy Chinese nationals to violate currency controls and buy real estate in “world cities”

A Wednesday evening meeting which was meant to address a controversial eight-grade school assignment regarding the validity of the Holocaust was called an “epic fail” by a school board member and has a local assemblywoman calling for the “reeducating” of

LIVERMORE, Calif., July 17 (UPI) — Scientists wanted to better understand what conditions are like deep inside giant, carbon-rich planets. To find out, they blasted a diamond with the world’s biggest laser. “The goal of the shots is to try

The city of Santa Cruz, California has been using “needle sifters” to comb city beaches in an effort to clear the beach of hazardous, discarded drug syringes. The sand sifters head out to the beach early in the morning, before

The Los Angeles Times reports that California Governor Jerry Brown, claiming he is concerned about the cost of a supplemental pamphlet on the November ballot, decided against signing an advisory measure that requests Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution and

On Tuesday, the California State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve fines of up to $500 a day for overuse of water, in an effort to penalize those who do not conserve amidst the state’s crippling drought. Now, Santa