Valley Councilman Wants Perjury, Voter Fraud Charges Dropped
Attorneys for City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife Flora asked a judge to dismiss a 24-count felony indictment against them.
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Attorneys for City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife Flora asked a judge to dismiss a 24-count felony indictment against them.
A five-member panel is likely to approve plans for a two-story, 4.3-acre facility that has stirred controversy among local residents for its size and symbolism.
Kamala Harris, the newly-elected Attorney General of California, took a victory lap on Tuesday with her first pit stop in Los Angeles.
The Supreme Court appears ready to endorse an order calling on California to move thousands of inmates out of its overcrowded prisons so that those who remain get adequate health care.
Citing a death toll of nearly 5,500 people annually, federal transportation officials say they want you to hang up and drive.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are back to work after the long Thanksgiving holiday, and millions of Americans are eagerly waiting for their elected representatives to extend jobless benefits before they are set to expire.
Republicans are relishing the coming of a new day on Capitol Hill. But across the country in California, the party of Nixon and Reagan is drifting toward obscurity.
The city of Bell wants its former city manager to return millions of dollars he's accused of misappropriating and enriching himself through a hefty salary.
Information that forced postponement of Rep. Maxine Waters' ethics trial raises new questions about an investigative panel's charges that the California Democrat improperly tried to steer federal bailout money to a minority-owned bank where her husband is a stockholder and former director.
Republican Steve Cooley is conceding the California attorney general's race to Kamala Harris, giving Democrats a sweep of all statewide offices.
City attorney Carmen Trutanich has ruled that a tax would be illegal, but that didn't stop City Council members from approving a tax on medical marijuana.
Surf City USA is swallowing the 85-acre unincorporated community of neighboring Sunset Beach.
The Board of Supervisors has voted to order its attorneys to draft an ordinance banning medical marijuana outlets in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, military officials said, setting buildings on fire and prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets.
A Pentagon spokeswoman says no service members have been discharged for being openly gay in the month since the Defense Department adopted new rules surrounding "don't ask, don't tell."
