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Former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has angered the parents of a 22-year-old college student who was stabbed to death, after Nunez said his son's manslaughter sentence in the case was politically motivated.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Los Angeles International Airport Sunday afternoon, concluding their first foreign tour.
Before she is laid to rest, Betty Ford will be memorialized in the Southern California desert region she and her rehab center made world famous by treating a stream of spiraling Hollywood stars.
Betty Ford's four children issued a statement of gratitude to the many well-wishers and mourners sad at the passing of the former First Lady Friday.
Prince William has taken to the field for a polo match on the second day of a royal visit to Southern California.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has appointed political veteran Gaye Williams, a former deputy mayor, to be his next chief of staff.
With the royal couple in town, it might be time to re-visit that Southern California needs to secede plan. After all, it was the country's pulling away from England that formed the United States of America in the first place.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, that's Williaml and Catherine to you common folk, have arrived in California to kick off their three-day jaunt around the Southland.
A Tehachapi city councilman is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy.
Former Temple City Mayor Cathe Wilson will continue to receive pension checks even though she was convicted of perjury and bribery and was sentenced in June to four years in state prison.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a $150 annual wildfire protection fee for property owners in fire-prone areas California.
Rev. Jeff Carr say his departure has anything to do with Villaraigosa's leadership or any other problems in the mayor's office.
The biggest factor behind the top salaries: payouts for unused vacation and sick time that sometimes doubled an employee's base salary.
Bill Rosendahl is leading the effort to pass an amendment to require all committees to abide by the public notice requirements of the Brown Act, California's open meeting law.
California's new budget provides the framework for the state to comply with a federal court order to slice its prison population by more than 20 percent over the next two years, but also acknowledges the state is not likely to meet its initial deadline.
