Governor Brown Demands Water-Use Reduction
SACRAMENTO—California Governor Jerry Brown has made the state's first-ever executive order mandating the reduction of water use.
The order is a response to the state's...
Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Charged
SAN FRANCISCO—The charges against two former federal agents were filed in a San Francisco federal court. Both agents belonged to a Baltimore-based task force that...
Defendant In Audrie Pott Lawsuit Settles
CALIFORNIA—On March 20, one of three teenagers who confessed to sexually assaulting 15-year-old Audrie Pott resulting in her suicide settled a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by...
California Tourists Deface Coliseum
CALIFORNIA—On Saturday, March 7, the Coliseum in Rome was once again defaced—and this time the vandals were two California women, ages 21 and 25.
Constructed...
Captain Files Lawsuit Against CHP
SANTA MONICA—California Highway Patrol Captain Gregory Hammond filed a lawsuit on February 27 alleging that he was wrongly punished for resisting pressure to find...
UC Refuses To Expand 2015 Enrollment
CALIFORNIA—The University of California has announced that enrollment will not be expanded to in-state applicants and will place a firm limit on the enrollment...
National Attention On LA Shooting
LOS ANGELES—The officer-involved shooting on Sunday, March 1 on the 500 block of San Pedro in Los Angeles, has placed national attention upon the...
State May Change Legal Smoking Age
CALIFORNIA—State Senator Ed Hernandez who represents the 24th Senate district, introduced a bill on January 29, that would raise the legal smoking age in...
Suge Knight Pleads Not Guilty
WESTWOOD—After pleading not guilty on two counts of a hit-and-run last week that killed Terry Carter, 55, and injured Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, Suge...
Suge Knight Arrested For Murder
WESTWOOD—Co-Founder of Death Row Records, Marion “Suge” Knight was involved in a fatal hit-and-run on Thursday, January 29 in Compton.
The victim was Terry Carter,...