The Los Angeles Times
Officials said Sunday that arrests from the Occupy Oakland protests the day before could reach 400 and vowed to seek restitution from those who vandalized City Hall.
Mayor Jean Quan said the city would seek monetary damages from …
By Sean Lengell-The Washington Times
Rep. Jerry Lewis, a conservative stalwart inCongress for more than three decades and a former chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, on Thursday became the third California Republican this year to announce his retirement….
SAN FRANCISCO – A California lawmaker pleaded no contest Friday to stealing leather pants and other merchandise from a Neiman Marcus store in an incident her attorney blamed on a benign brain tumor.
Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Castro Valley, entered the plea …
By Judy Lin, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California faces a smaller budget deficit in the coming fiscal year but will require nearly $5 billion in cuts to public education if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to raise taxes in the fall, …
By Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
An army of volunteers from across the nation has once again descended upon Pasadena’s Rose Palace, where several floats are being covered with flowers.
Half a mile away in Singer Park, dozens of Occupy activists worked …
By JENNIFER MEDINA
LOS ANGELES — The California Legislature passed a budget in June relying on optimistic projections of how much money the state could bring in with a growing economy. But to the …
By Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO—David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America.
Come New Year’s Day, he’ll have a few more coins in his pocket as San Francisco makes …
By Dan Weikel and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
With the cost of the state’s high-speed rail project rising dramatically, a new public opinion poll shows that a clear majority of California’s registered voters would reject the proposal if given …
The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they’ll heed it is much less certain.
With hours left before the Monday …
By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer and Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES—The mayor of Los Angeles set a deadline for anti-Wall Street protesters to leave an encampment by City Hall, while demonstrators elsewhere in California took their message about corporate greed to …
