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.

After the federal government canceled its plans to send 300 illegal immigrants from Central America to California on Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents said that as soon as the media’s glare fades, California will receive illegal immigrants from Texas who flooded

A small fire at Disneyland on Sunday that was visible throughout the Anaheim theme park and for “miles around” frightened many tourists, according to a report by CBS News’ Los Angeles affiliate. What u don’t want to see when you’re

Fouad Ajami, who was a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and one of the most passionate critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East, passed away Sunday after a battle with cancer. The 68-year-old Ajami had

The Los Angeles Times reports that despite California Governor Jerry Brown crowing in early 2013, “The prison emergency is over in California,” prison costs have skyrocketed, the prisons are overflowing with criminals, and the overflow has prompted the state to

In “The Black Bruins,” a spoken-word Youtube video that has been viewed more than 2 million times, a group of young African American men express their anger at how few black students are enrolled at UCLA. Although the video draws

Illegal immigrant children and families overflowing into Texas from Central America and being held in overcrowded detention centers will soon see 300 detainees flown out to the southern California cities of San Diego and El Centro according to an Associated

Fans of the Christian metal band As I Lay Dying couldn’t believe it when lead singer Tim Lambesis was accused of hatching a plot to have his estranged wife killed. Now, we’re learning that both Lambesis and some of his

Federal District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller has “imposed a temporary restraining order that prohibits disputing factions of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians from…carrying firearms within a hundred yards of the tribe’s Rolling Hills Casino” in Corning, California. The order

Don Miyada, a 17-year-old Japanese-American in 1942 who missed his Newport Harbor High School graduation because he and his family were sent to an internment camp, finally took part in his high school’s graduation on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports.

John Whitmore, a 65-year-old man from Los Angeles, died on Friday as a result of being beaten by two women while he waited for a train on a Metro platform in South Los Angeles. Sgt. Kim Manatt of the Los

Amtrak has canceled an agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to pursue contractors to build trains that could operate on both traditional and bullet-train systems, the Associated Press reports. In the latest blow to the high-speed rail project embraced by

Those seemingly endless lines in the women’s bathroom stalls at the Hollywood Bowl might be cut shorter with the introduction of a red-light and green-light LED signaling system that lets female Bowl patrons know when the stalls are occupied or

144 sterilizations performed on female California inmates from 2005 to 2013 have been under review by the State Auditor, and many have been found suspect due to lack of consent or possible coercion in a resulting audit report. Documentation reviewed

Police believe a man known as the “Hypnotist Bandit,” who is alleged to have carried out several bank robberies in May and June of this year, could be the same individual behind a robbery at a Manhattan Beach bank on

An attorney for the three roommates Elliot Rodger stabbed to death alleges that Rodger used “a knife, a hammer, and a machete” in killing the three individuals on May 23. According to the Los Angeles Times, Santa Barabara County Sheriff

Peanut, a 2-year-old mutt who is believed to be a Chihuahua-Shitzu mix, was crowned with the title of “World’s Ugliest Dog” at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petamula, California Friday. The contest has been held annually for 26 years. Peanut is

A parking sign posted for at least three years in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles that cautioned drivers they could park for one minute only was finally replaced on Friday after Drudge Report highlighted it on its website. According

131 elected California officials, including Governor Jerry Brown, are set to receive a two percent salary increase after the Citizens Compensation Commission, a panel appointed by the governor, approved the raises in a 4-1 vote on Friday. The raises will

On Thursday, nine minutes after an Amber Alert was issued, the man accused of kidnapping three children was found and arrested. The mini-saga started at 7 a.m. when Matthew Kline of Oroville allegedly kidnapped his two children, 3-year-old Ella Kline

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of candles were illuminated by members of the greater Los Angeles community at a vigil in Pan Pacific Park Amphitheater on Thursday night who united in song, prayer, and hope for the safe return of three

In a bid to sway Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to support gun control, gun control groups and some local Arizona gun control factions delivered 10,000 “Not One More” cards to Flake’s Phoenix office. It took more than an hour to

A stolen necklace containing the ashes of a 23-year-old girl has her mother pleading for its return. Brittany Brown of Barstow, California, passed away from a rare liver disease in 2012, according to CBS Los Angeles. Her mother, Karen, got

Child of too much privilege and free time; daughter of movie stars Demi Moore and Bruce Willis; exhibitionist millionaire narcissist with priorities so out of whack you wonder if she wasn’t a victim of baby-shaken-dropped-and-held-under-water syndrome — whatever you want

Local Motors, a community-sourced vehicle design and manufacturing company, ran a contest earlier this month to see who among the site’s designers could submit the best design for a 3D-printed car. The company picked a winner, along with several runner-ups.

California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton, attempting to take the bull by the horns, wrote Texas Gov. Rick Perry a letter chiding him for criticizing California and urging him to march in the June 29 Pride Parade in San Francisco.