Calif. Bill Would Bar Last-Minute Clemency, Pardons
A state assemblyman is seeking a constitutional amendment that would prohibit a California governor from issuing last-minute pardons and commutations.
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A state assemblyman is seeking a constitutional amendment that would prohibit a California governor from issuing last-minute pardons and commutations.
The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency has allocated $885 million for projects throughout the city before it is possibly dissolved under terms of the austerity budget Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed for California.
The disgraced former city manager of the scandal-ridden Los Angeles suburb of Bell will no longer be watching out for rogue parkers in the lot at Huntington Beach's International Surf Museum.
Despite lingering questions about one of his final acts as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants to leave politics for "another day".
Los Angeles has met its goal of providing 20 percent of the city's power from renewable sources in 2010 largely thanks to a wind plant.
A grieving father says he plans to sue over one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's last acts as governor.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of harboring illegal immigrants, including his father, at his Southern California home was arraigned in federal court on multiple charges.
Charles Turner Habermann, 32, allegedly threatened to kill Rep. Jim McDermott, his friends and his family, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Rabbi Marvin Hier with the Simon Wiesenthal Center says Sarah Palin had good intentions but poor choice of words in her video condemning the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Hundreds of California inmates serving life sentences want a federal judge to suspend a 2008 voter-approved law that they allege illegally extends their prison terms.
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to consider another round of budget cuts Wednesday, including additional furloughs that could shut down entire departments for one day a week.
A new law aimed at stopping a planned protest from a fundamentalist Christian church would prohibit all demonstrations at funeral sites.
The top financial official in LA County says he's worried some of the most vulnerable families in the county will be hardest hit by the new budget plan.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer says its time to look at adopting more stringent regulations nationwide governing who can legally carry concealed weapons.
Government-paid cell phones will be the first casualty of Gov. Jerry Brown's cost-cutting measures.
