The California winner who will share Wednesday night’s record-smashing Powerball jackpot will be exempt from state taxes on the winnings. At least three winning tickets for the record breaking $1.586 billion Powerball lottery were sold, and the California one has been tied
On November 23 Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) and 113 of his Democrat colleagues submitted a letter urging President Obama to circumvent Congress by using executive action to expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
Latino workers at a fashion headwear business in Carson have noticed that they are making more money, and they owe it all to one man: Donald Trump.
The top-ranked Value Add player in the country signed with USC six months after USA Today splashed a picture of USC Song Girls welcoming coach Andy Enfield as their new head basketball coach accompanied by these words: “Andy Enfield’s model wife, Amanda Marcum was there. As were the USC Song Girls. If ever there was a single image that could help USC recruit star high school basketball players, this is it.”
Former campaign staffer Todd Bosnich was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to instigating and then obstructing an FBI investigation into Republican Carl DeMaio during the 2014 election based on false accusations.
Money that was being appropriated for use towards protecting California power plants from terror attacks is reportedly being held hostage as a consequence of a battle between the California Public Utilities Commission and state legislators over the appropriation of $5 million in legal fees stemming from a corruption investigation into the agency.
Unusually high tides known as “king tides” struck parts of California on Tuesday, causing flooding in some areas and raising the possibility of dangerous rip currents along the coast.
The worldwide number of annual terrorist deaths has more than quadrupled since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent last year to an all-time-record of 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013.
A civil rights complaint has been filed against the City of Berkeley by a group of eleven demonstrators and journalists who are claiming damages for alleged “unconstitutional police attacks on peaceful protesters and journalists” during the violent Black Lives Matter protests that took place on December 6 of 2014.
On Monday, a judge freed a legal immigrant who had served 16 years in prison after being falsely accused of rape.
Members of the Muslim Students Association at San Diego State University (SDSU) held a rally Monday rally against Islamophobia after a reported attack that the group is highlighting as a “hate crime.”
Consumers preparing for Black Friday are arriving at stores far earlier this year than ever before; some customers have been camped out since last week.
What doth it profit a man to gaineth fifteen straight wins but loseth his Mercedes-Benz GL450?
The Boy Scouts are allowed by Federal Title IX law to exclude girls from their ranks. How long that will last, no one knows but the pressure is on.
The Teamsters Union, representing shuttle bus drivers for tech companies, have kicked up pay for drivers from $18 dollars an hour to $25 after signing contracts with Apple and other Silicon Valley companies, part of a “domino effect” to organize the tech sector.
The American Highway Users Alliance has released a study arguing that the worst bottleneck in the nation exists in Chicago, but L.A. traffic can boast the second-through-seventh worst.
On Saturday, “several hundred demonstrators” reportedly took to the streets of Oakland in a march and rally ahead of the 21st U.N. Conference of the Parties in Paris (Nov. 30-Dec. 11), calling on world leaders to adopt an agreement on global warming.
Thirteen people were hospitalized in San Diego on Sunday after overdosing on “spice,” a variant of synthetic marijuana.
California’s Lieutnant Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is considering going duck hunting “for the first time” as he looks for ways to bridge the gap with conservatives in the lead-up to a 2018 gubernatorial run.
One of four known northern white rhinos in the world died from age-related health complications at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Sunday.
California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.
San Francisco’s supervisors are considering a new measure that would require gun owners to have a “lock box” in which to store guns while traveling in cars.
A Jewish student at the University of California Santa Cruz was pushed to abstain from voting on an anti-Israel resolution seeking divestment from the Jewish state over fears that he was “elected by a Jewish agenda.”
The Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority has approved XpressWest, which wants to build a 185-mile high-speed rail line between Victorville and Las Vegas, as a franchisee.
Dave Roberts, the fleet outfielder who executed arguably the most famous stolen base in baseball history, raced past other candidates to grab the job as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ new manager.
The recent decision allows judges to participate in Boy Scout troops that still discriminate but only if they discriminate on the basis of Church teachings. Though judges will be allowed to join discriminatory Church-based troops, they can do so only if “he is satfisfied the troop is an organization dedicated to the preservation of religious values of legitimate common interest to troop members.”
