By Michael B. Marois , Bloomberg
California Governor Jerry Brown bet that a nascent financial recovery would lift the world’s ninth- largest economy enough to whittle down a $9.2 billion deficit. Instead, the gap has widened to $16 billion.
Today the 74-year-old Democrat …
By John Cádiz Klemack and Neil Costes | NBC4SouthernCalifornia
Thousands of California residents are about to lose their federal unemployment benefits because of the loss of a federal extension.
Mathew Pauley is among the 93,000 people in California set to lose benefits …
By Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles TimesIt is the first morning of May 1992, and the air outside my Koreatown apartment is acrid with lingering smoke. I gingerly wander through the neighborhood, hoping to find a place to buy a quart …
By msnbc.com staff and news services
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was sentenced Monday to serve one day in jail after pleading guilty to one count of “false imprisonment” for a New Year’s Eve spat with his wife, Eliana Lopez, during which …
By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
Filing has closed, the candidate lists are final and the curtain has risen on California’s reconstructed political stage, where the contests for 153 congressional and legislative seats will play out for the first time under …
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The next influx of UC students may be asked to state their sexual orientation.
In January, the Academic Senate recommended that upon accepting admission offers from a University of California school students should have the option of …
By Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor
Supporters of a ban on same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday asked the full federal court of appeals court in San Francisco to reconsider a ruling by a divided three-judge panel that struck down the …
By LISA LEFF Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO February 7, 2012 (AP)
Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California’s ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to “lessen …
By DEREK KRAVITZ AP Economics Writer
California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about …
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 …
