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.

The “Tequila Party,” a Latino group formed in opposition to the Tea Party, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey on Monday to request that the Tea Party and several officials be investigated for their role

A 15-year veteran lifeguard drowned while attempting to rescue a swimmer in distress near the Newport Beach pier on Sunday. Ben Carlson, 32, was pulled from the water after a nearly three-hour search, according to the Daily Mail. He had

Some say that first century Roman emperor Nero played the violin while Rome burned. On Sunday, the San Diego Symphony and the Baja California Orchestra met on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Friendship Park and played music,

Richard Martinez, father of Santa Barbara victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez, is launching a nationwide push for gun control and claims its passage will make his “son’s death mean something.” According to The Des Moines Register, Martinez said the heinous crime at

Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme in California is one of three military bases reportedly housing unaccompanied illegal alien children in response to the influx that have crossed the U.S. southern border in recent months. The Ventura base now has

A motel in Fortuna in Northern California that has a reputation for trouble, including numerous cases of disorderly conduct and burglary, is going to be renovated by its owner after being deemed a public nuisance, the Times-Standard reports. The owner of

The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is just one among several left-wing radical groups that have flocked to the Murrieta protests to oppose local residents who are demonstrating against the transfer of illegal aliens to their community. One group of activists

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to change a contract with GTL, a correctional telecommunications services, after deeming that GTL was overcharging consumers and underpaying commissions, the Los Angeles Times reports. The company recently agreed to a $1.1-million

The defunct Occupy Wall Street’s legacy, in part, was bringing the term “one percent” into the lexicon. The term targeted the rich, who apparently weren’t paying their fair share to society. Gene Simmons begs to differ. In fact, the Kiss

The city council of Berkeley has approved an ordinance stating that the three marijuana dispensaries in the city will probably have to offer pot to low-income members and homeless people at no charge. The East Bay Express first revealed that

Late Friday, San Diego’s Local 1613 of the National Border Patrol Council issued a press release announcing a Border Patrol Agent had contracted scabies in connection with the transfer of detained illegal unaccompanied alien children from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

Silicon Valley in northern California remained the center of the earth for venture capital in the second quarter of 2014 according to PitchBook data. Of the $21.6 billion of venture capital (VC) investment worldwide, $9 billion, or 41.6%, went into

An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale shook southern California on Saturday morning, striking near the mountain community of Big Bear. There were no reports of major damage or injuries, though the quake did trigger a small rockslide, KTLA

A San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority parking officer has “gone rogue” and is slapping cars in the Glen Park area of town with unwarranted parking tickets, according to a fed-up resident. Gary Malec, 33, told the San Francisco Examiner that

A swimmer was bitten by a great white shark on Saturday morning off Manhattan Beach in Southern California. The attack happened around 9:30 a.m., according to the Associated Press. L.A. County Fire Department spokesman Rick Flores said the shark became

A good Samaritan who intervened to stop the assault of a 35-year-old woman at a gas station was brutally beaten and left in a roadway, where he was run over and killed on June 30. According to KCRA.com, 49-year-old Nathan

The use of domain name endings on the Internet has taken a new twist. California Democratic Congressman Mike Thompson asked the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN) to ban the use of .wine and .vin domains by people

On Friday, the Fourth of July, a memorial was held at the Los Angeles International Airport to honor the memory of Vicki Hen, a young woman who was fatally gunned down by a terrorist on U.S. soil 12 years ago.

April Brown, a former cosmetologist, lost both her arms and legs after she let an acquaintance who was offering cheap butt injections fill up her rear end. Brown recalled, “I was in pain, my butt was hard, and I was

MURRIETA — Local police officers have arrested two pro-amnesty activists in Murrieta, California, after one of them allegedly assaulted a police officer and an elderly woman who was protesting the arrival of illegal aliens at the Murrieta Border Patrol station.

Strong rip currents and high surf predicted for San Diego beaches over the July 4th weekend are prompting lifeguards to warn swimmers and offer tips on how to stay safe. Over the July 4, 2013 holiday weekend San Diego lifeguards

LOS ANGELES — A line of eager patients snaked around three city blocks for the Independence Day opening of the California Heritage Market, the world’s first medical marijuana farmers market at West Coast Collective in Boyle Heights. Blunt smoke and
MURRIETA — Pro-amnesty activists beat drums and danced in full Aztec regalia, chanting, “White supremacists out, white supremacists out!” at a counter-demonstration at the Murrieta Border Patrol station Friday. After Tuesday’s anti-illegal immigration protests at the station turned away three

MURRIETA — An American flag has reportedly been burned by pro-amnesty protesters near the Murrieta Border Patrol station on America’s Independence Day. Breitbart News obtained the above photograph, which shows a burnt flag on the ground, from an anti-illegal immigration

The death of camera assistant Sarah Jones during the making of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider speaks to the potential hazards on the modern movie set. Industry observer Nikki Finke warns that only the threat of legal action, combined with