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.

First there was planking and Tebowing, which was followed by teapotting, and even Trayvoning. Now, there’s body-slamming garage doors in what residents in one California town are calling the latest, and expensive, trend that has youth vandalizing the exteriors of

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — IAC/InterActiveCorp has suspended a co-founder of its popular dating app Tinder in the wake of a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a female executive of the company. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior

A grandmother has been arrested on grounds of child endangerment and possession of drugs after her two-year-old granddaughter drank from the meth-laced tea she had left unattended. Cynthia Watson, 51, had been visiting from Oregon and staying with relatives in

Speaking with Los Angeles-based CBS News affiliate KCAL9, Leehy Shaar, the aunt of Gilad Shaar, one of the three Israeli boys murdered by Hamas operatives, said sadly, “Again, they were just boys, just kids.” Shaer had just moved to Los

As thousands of illegal immigrants have crossed the U.S. Southern Border and flooded into Texas and many are now being flown into California, one member of a Latino pro-immigration organization claims that “This issue with the children could be the

After the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on June 10 voted 4 to 1 to put a popular initiative to eliminate public employee defined-benefit pensions on the ballot, a coalition of public employee unions filed suit to prevent the initiative

Is San Francisco too cool for it’s own good? That’s the question even the San Francisco Chronicle is asking, after the “Golden Gate City” has lost out on a few highly-lucrative bids and business dealings as of late, which could be

In a study conducted by researchers at USC, it was discovered that kids who engage in sexting are also more likely to be sexually active. Knock me over with a feather. Sexting, for those of you who don’t know, is the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Calexico port of entry arrested a California man traveling to Mexico last week after discovering more than $410,000 in unreported U.S. currency stashed in the door of the man’s SUV. In all,

A list of “pimps and purchasers” will be featured on a new website launched by the Oakland Police Department. The list that you never want to be on includes suspects arrested and charged with soliciting prostitutes or benefiting from the illegal

Oakland mayor Jean Quan has not yet provided her insurance information to Lakisha Lovely, the driver of another vehicle who was injured after the two were involved in a car accident nearly three weeks ago, according to Lovely’s attorney. CBS

A new survey ranks Sacramento the worst city in the country for small business owners. Six other cities in California, out of 82 cities nationwide included in the survey, ranked among the least business-friendly in the country. The Times of

In addition to handing down landmark decisions on religious freedom and public sector unions, the Supreme Court announced cases that it will not be hearing. Only a small percentage of appeals to the Supreme Court are ever taken up, and this

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of curious and enthusiastic guests turned out for the red-carpet screening premier of Dinesh D’Souza’s new film, America, which is slated to hit theaters on July 2. The crowd roared waited anxiously in a line that wrapped

Planned Parenthood, the women’s reproductive heath organization that also provides abortions, has reassured Californians that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling Monday in the Hobby Lobby case does not apply to the Golden State. Beth Parker, chief counsel for the organization, told
Upon the predicted resumption of flights transporting illegal aliens from overcrowded Texas detention facilities to California for processing, a protest made up of concerned citizens reappeared this weekend. Sunday’s rally at Murrieta’s Border Patrol office included local citizens supporting Border

In the penultimate essay of this series, I discussed at length an internal report at UCLA that examined the university’s admissions decisions. The report, written by UCLA sociology professor Robert Mare, found evidence that UCLA had given preference to black
POTRERO, Calif., June 30 (UPI) — A California woman is awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of World Records to determine if her five-inch-tall cat holds the record for world’s shortest feline. If the adult cat, Pixel, holds the record,

A California man who reached out to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan in an attempt to help train terrorist fighters has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release. The man, identified as 25-year-old Sinh
A 9-year-old Chihuahua was killed by a swarm of Africanized bees in a Pacific Beach community, while a dogsitter looked on helplessly, unable to free the dog from the deadly attack. “The terrible part is you can’t do anything about

After the BET Awards Sunday night, violence broke out at a number of clubs. A shooting broke out at a Hollywood nightclub where, according to TMZ, a number of famous rappers were present. Early Monday morning, sometime around 2:30 AM

Oakland, California will finally lift a city-wide ban on pinball that has been in place since the 1930s. Although the law was rarely, if ever, enforced, the ban was on the books for nearly 80 years. Pinball was classified as

Two of the plaintiffs involved in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the landmark case and lawsuit that led to the overturn of California’s ban on same-sex marriage, renewed their vows over Gay Pride Weekend at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel on Saturday, exactly one