Kuehl Leads Close Third District's Supervisor Race Over Shriver
The tight race for the Third District's Supervisor was too close to call during mid-elections on Tuesday night.
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The tight race for the Third District's Supervisor was too close to call during mid-elections on Tuesday night.
Controller John Chiang won his bid to move from California's chief accountant to its top banker on Tuesday.
Ruiz was leading with 54 percent of votes over Nestande's 46 percent with 32 percent of precincts reporting.
Incumbent Tom Torlakson maintained an early lead Tuesday in what had been expected to be a tight race for the job of California's K-12 schools chief, a nonpartisan and largely ministerial post that in the months leading up to Election Day became an expensive battle ground with high stakes for teachers unions and education reformers.
Some passengers on-board a transpacific flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Sydney say they endured a bathroom breakdown this weekend.
California voters took to the polls Tuesday, deciding on a handful of state and county measures.
With substantial advantages in fundraising and party support, Democrat Alex Padilla on Wednesday became California's next secretary of state, beating first-time Republican candidate Pete Peterson for the job overseeing state elections.
Betty Yee, a Democrat who has made a career of understanding arcane state finance rules, will be California's next chief fiscal officer.
Family, friends and community members took part in a prayer vigil Tuesday night for a SWAT officer who was killed in the line of duty last week.
Democratic State Senator Ted Lieu was leading Tuesday in his bid to fill the 33rd Congressional District seat left open by Henry Waxman, who is expected to retire after 40 years.
Voters again chose Long Beach police Chief Jim McDonnell to serve as Los Angeles County's next sheriff in Tuesday's runoff election against retired Undersheriff and Gardena Mayor Paul Tanaka.
Democrat Gavin Newsom defeated a lesser-known Republican Tuesday to coast to a second term as California's lieutenant governor, a low-profile post that has little actual power.
Democratic incumbent Dave Jones took an early lead Tuesday in the race for state insurance commissioner.
Brown, who did little campaigning on behalf of his re-election, concentrating instead on urging voters to pass Propositions 1 and 2.
A tutor at the center of an alleged high school grade-changing scandal has pleaded not guilty to computer fraud and commercial burglary.
