The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating whether an officer twice used a Taser on an unarmed, wheelchair-bound man wi...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
At present, the anti-immigration faction of the GOP has antagonized Hispanics and alienated independents, presenting a public face of the party with its most prominent features being intolerance and intemperance.
AP | DENA POTTER | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
RICHMOND, Va. — A California rapper whose lyrics spoke about the thrill of murder and mutilation has been charged with killing a Virginia pastor...
New York Times | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
California's unemployment rate in August hit its highest point in nearly 70 years, starkly underscoring how the nation's incipient economic recovery c...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Last year, over 70,000 volunteers picked up over 1.6 million pounds of trash from California beaches. This year, the annual California Coastal Cleanup...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Bcelebrated allows individuals, families and friends to get the information and images and music and wishes all together well before death comes knocking at the door.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Polls show gay marriage losing narrowly in Maine, but a new TV ad with Maine's 2005 Teacher of the Year may help turn the tide.
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, ...
Chris Prevatt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Orange County, like the rest of California, has grown more diverse and more moderate over the last generation. Yet its reputation as a conservative, antigay bastion persists, despite evidence to the contrary.
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
Cirque du Soleil helped the Santa Monica Pier celebrate its 100th birthday on 9/9/09. Next up for the partying centenarian is "Kooza," Cirque's new s...
Robert Stavins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
I had thought that arguments about massive "free lunches" in the energy efficiency and climate domain had long since been laid to rest. The debates in California (and some of the rhetoric in Washington) prove otherwise.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
California AG Jerry Brown joins the ranks of Attorneys General to scrutinize the disastrous role the credit rating agencies played in the financial cr...
Giles Slade | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Across California's Central Valley, towns are already seeing some of the worst unemployment in the country, with rates three and four times the national average
nytimes.com | Jim Motavalli | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
The United States Chamber of Commerce is joining with the National Automobile Dealers Association to try to derail California's ability to regulate gr...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Another "Hail Mary" from GM? Or the real thing? Starting today and running through November, General Motors is offering buyers of their Core Four bra...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
LOS ANGELES — Danny Pang, an Orange County financier accused by federal regulators of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollar...
Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
What good is a business's bottom line if we end up with air we can see and chew?
LA Times | Cathleen Decker | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Public Policy Institute survey finds two-thirds expect bad economic times in the next year, and half fear job loss. But the survey also uncovers stron...
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
The anti-BPA movement is spreading nationwide. Chicago has already banned the toxin and legislation is currently pending in California
Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water and there's an abundance of it in eastern Riverside County, California. Mosquitoes there are breeding in t...
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A scandal involving a family-values legislator caught boasting about his sexual escapades with his lobbyist mistresses crea...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The pipeline to prison in the U.S. is not an act of God or inevitable but a series of choices that can be changed with strong leadership and a focus on meeting child and youth needs.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
About to complete his freshman year at George Washington University, Josh told the communications director he encountered that he loved stats and that he wanted a summer job around voting.
McClatchy | Victor A. Patton | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home