
on Thursday, the faculty council at Occidental College unanimously approved a resolution indicating their “full support of The Oxy United for Black Liberation students’ actions and the demands for the culture around racism and diversity in the institution to change,” according to the Huffington Post. Students have demanded that Veitch resign, as one of their 14 demands.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Nov 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

A surrogate for observers of medical images may have been found by researchers from the University of California, Davis: pigeons.
by William Bigelow20 Nov 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

The man from whom California Department of Justice (DOJ) agents confiscated 500 guns and over 100,000 rounds of ammunition says he did not know he was in the state’s mental health database and that the DOJ broke a promise to keep his name concealed until he had time to ascertain if he should be in the database.
by AWR Hawkins20 Nov 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

The Board of the Los Angeles Airport Commission voted unanimously to build at taxpayers’ cost a ritzy private lounge to cater to the whims of uber-wealthy Hollywood celebrities, sports figures, diplomats and politicians seeking to avoid mixing with taxpayers.
by Chriss W. Street20 Nov 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

California will suffer severe shortages, with or without a warmer planet. We need to act soon. Water policy may not generate flashy headlines, and politicians who lay the foundations for reform may not be in office ten or twenty years from now, when credit is handed out. But it can be done. Israel has shown us how.
by Joel B. Pollak20 Nov 2015, 7:08 AM PST0

China gave Russia’s defense industry a huge boost on November 19 by ordering 24 Su-35s, at a cost of $83 million each, to face-off against Lockheed’s $400 million F-35.
by Chriss W. Street20 Nov 2015, 5:10 AM PST0

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has declared that with a 20 percent jump this year, Los Angeles is still leading the nation in homelessness–despite $25 billion a year in welfare spending going to the L.A. region.
by Chriss W. Street20 Nov 2015, 4:52 AM PST0

A love-struck man paid over $700,000 to a fraudulent psychic who promised to reunite him with his deceased lover by buying a time machine and building a bridge of gold to help fight the evil that was separating the kindred spirits.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Nov 2015, 4:41 AM PST0

Wednesday afternoon took a terrifying turn for one Russian tourist and his family when he was stabbed multiple times in the neck and face at the Hollywood and Highland center.
by Michelle Moons20 Nov 2015, 4:29 AM PST0

San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.
by Ferenstein Wire19 Nov 2015, 9:01 PM PST0

In the first ruling of its kind in California, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco has ruled that the frozen embryos a woman wants to use to procreate, over her ex-husband’s objections, must be destroyed.
by Adelle Nazarian19 Nov 2015, 12:59 PM PST0

Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large and DailyWire.com Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro is set to deliver a lecture at the racial turmoil-beset University of Missouri campus Thursday evening. But before he left for Mizzou, Shapiro warmed up Wednesday night by speaking to University of Southern California students about the rise of anti-Israel bias on college campuses nationwide.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 Nov 2015, 12:54 PM PST0

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized and destroyed 450 illegal pork tamales from an airline passenger arriving at LAX from Mexico on November 2. The passenger was also caught lying about the contents of his luggage.
by Michelle Moons19 Nov 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

On November 18, the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) raided a Clovis home and seized 500 guns and more than 100,000 of ammunition from a man whom prosecutors have yet to charge for a crime.
by AWR Hawkins19 Nov 2015, 12:08 PM PST0

San Diego’s City Council ruled this week that residents will soon be drinking recycled sewage, and paying for the pleasure of doing so. The council is raising water rates 16 per cent to pay for a new sewage recycling plant and a desalination plant in Carlsbad.
by Michelle Moons19 Nov 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

On Tuesday, the Reason Foundation published a study outlining a $700 billion plan to fix L.A.’s notorious traffic gridlock.
by William Bigelow19 Nov 2015, 11:47 AM PST0

At approximately 6 a.m. Thursday morning, an unauthorized person evaded customary security and was spotted on a jet bridge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
by William Bigelow19 Nov 2015, 10:45 AM PST0

On Wednesday, Black Lives Matter joined students at Occidental College in a demonstration that forced Occidental president Jonathan Veitch to leave campus under police guard.
by Adelle Nazarian19 Nov 2015, 5:43 AM PST0

A teacher in the Ocean View School district forced her seventh-grade class to sing a song about Islam that implied Allah was the only god.
by William Bigelow19 Nov 2015, 5:34 AM PST0

On Wednesday, California Governor Jerry Brown balked at a blanket acceptance of Syrian refugees during a White House teleconference with fellow governors–despite his public protestations that he fully supports bringing the refugees to his state.
by William Bigelow18 Nov 2015, 8:51 PM PST0

LOS ANGELES — Campus safety officers at Occidental College are denouncing a demand by a student activists that they stop wearing bulletproof vests. The police do not carry weapons, and bulletproof vests are their only protection.
by Adelle Nazarian18 Nov 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

Now, for the first time in 46 years, recordings from Velvet Underground’s classic 1969 San Francisco performances will be made available to rock n’ roll fans.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 Nov 2015, 3:00 PM PST0

Political analytics website Crowdpac has launched a new crowdfunding tool that allows any American–with any political ideology–to collect money to run for public office.
by Daniel Nussbaum18 Nov 2015, 12:36 PM PST0

A team of scientists from the San Diego area have discovered a possible shortcut in treating HIV and preventing AIDS.
by Michelle Moons18 Nov 2015, 11:52 AM PST0

Data released by the U.S. Department of State’s Refugee Processing Center shows that since 2012, roughly 250 Syrian refugees have arrived in California, with about half of that number resettling in Sacramento and San Diego.
by Adelle Nazarian18 Nov 2015, 11:38 AM PST0