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.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ripped Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Sunday after a tape surfaced in which Sterling purportedly tells his girlfriend not to bring black people to Clippers games. Garcetti told the Los Angeles Times that he condemns

Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO and founder of marketing company RadiumOne, was fired Saturday night after a scandal involving felony charges of domestic abuse toward his girlfriend. Though cameras caught him reportedly striking her 117 times over 30 minutes, Chahal’s final sentence

A high-tech executive was taken into custody after he allegedly brutally attacked a truck driver whose truck grazed his bicycle in a road rage incident on April 16. Jeffrey Smock, 40, the founder and former chief executive of the software

The Los Angeles Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown issued a new executive order addressing the state’s drought on Friday. The provisions include temporarily halting environmental regulations, urging restaurants to only serve water if customers request it, ordering homeowners associations

Fifty-five West Coast Crip gang members were tracked down and arrested in a coordinated 500-officer, cross-country raid late last week, and face charges for crimes ranging from murder and narcotics trafficking to prostitution and child sex trafficking, the San Diego
Bullets flew between a security guard and two armed robbers at a San Diego medical marijuana dispensary Friday afternoon, according to local news reports. Just Thursday, the city had begun the process of issuing permits for medical marijuana dispensaries. Armed
In a unanimous 71-0 vote last Thursday, with no debate or discussion, the California State Assembly passed a bill that would require the state’s board of education to teach students the racial “significance” of Barack Obama’s presidency as part of

President Barack Obama weighed in Sunday from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on remarks allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, calling them “racist” and “incredibly offensive.” Sterling was alleged to have told his girlfriend not to brink black people

A startling half-time discovery during a charity game between the LAPD’s football team the Los Angeles Centurions and the San Diego Enforcers — which includes team members from several San Diego law enforcement agencies — revealed that three handguns and four

Suspended state Sen. Leyland Yee, who was indicted for allegedly committing wire fraud and trafficking firearms in exchange for campaign contributions in March, sent 10.6 million households campaign letters pledging he will fight corruption if elected Secretary of State. The Sacramento

The Senate Education Committee voted 5-2 — the minimum number of votes needed — to advance a bill that would levy a 9.5% tax on oil pumped from the ground in California. The aim is to raise $2 billion annually

The growing gap between CEO and worker pay over the last 30 years has ushered in the creation of California Senate Bill 1372, which targets leaders at corporate companies by raising the corporate income tax. While the bill still has

California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board was created in 1975to insure farm workers had the right to unionize and choose their ownrepresentatives. Now the same board appears to be slow-walking attemptsby farm workers to get rid of a union they don’t

TMZ obtained audio of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend, who is half black and half Mexican, to not take pictures with black people and never bring black people to Clipper games — including Magic Johnson. Sterling

California Senate Bill 962, requiring that all cell phones include a “kill switch,” was defeated on Thursday. According to the Sacramento Bee, the innovation, providing owners with the ability to shut down the phone rendering it useless if stolen, is strongly endorsed

Yasiel Puig’s harrowing journey from Cuba to the United States and eventually to Chavez Ravine will be turned into a blockbuster movie. According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ Los Angeles

Parents across California are learning more about the Common Core standards, as grass roots groups opposed to the centralized standards from across the state have joined together for a whirlwind tour featuring nationally and regionally-known speakers, rallies, and radio and

The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly going to bring back Mike D’Antoni next year even though they have not formally told him yet. D’Antoni meets with Jim Buss next week, but Mark Heisler reports that the team has agreed to

Kern County Water Agency intends to rescue hundreds of farms from the state’s severe drought this spring by reversing the flow of the California Aqueduct. Water districts in the San Joaquin Valley are proposing a drought tactic that’s never been

In a life-or-death catch-22 situation, Richard Hawthorne claims that smoking medical marijuana is helping him stay alive and deal with the severe side effects of the Hepatitis C medicine that he takes while waiting for a new liver. ABC7 reported that

Guess who wrote the fawning blurb for CA Governor Jerry Brown’s inclusion in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people? The answer: Gray Davis, the former governor of California and once Brown’s chief of staff. Davis gushed: “Things

Embroiled Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber has been released after being held and questioned for close to four hours by authorities at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol area Thursday on his way back from Asia, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Nancy Pelosi has been selected to deliver this year’s commencement speech at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s premier universities. The day after the announcement, on April 17, House Minority Leader Pelosi reportedly embraced her religious roots to “honor the