Cantor To Step Down As House Majority Leader
House Republican Leader Eric Cantor says he is resigning his leadership post at the end of next month.
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House Republican Leader Eric Cantor says he is resigning his leadership post at the end of next month.
The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery says she will receive an honorary diploma during her school's 8th grade graduation.
David Welch, an electrical engineer who holds over 130 patents, began to turn his attention to education in 2011 when he founded the nonprofit group Students Matter. The group was the driving financial force behind a student lawsuit that led to Tuesday's Superior Court ruling.
County election results show Measure A winning 56 percent of the vote in the June 3 primary. Only a few hundred ballots remained to be counted Tuesday, not enough to change the outcome.
Mayor Dennis Kneier tells the Whittier Daily News he was walking home from a park with his wife Saturday night when they found the bag on a parkway and he picked it up and tossed it onto a walkway at the property.
A newspaper is reporting that the hiring of a Chinese company to fabricate key components of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's eastern section ended up being a costly choice in terms of both dollars and confidence in the span's structural integrity.
Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic state lawmakers head into the final week of negotiations over the state budget having agreed to a rainy day fund and pay down massive liabilities in the teachers' pension system.
California Chrome sustained a bloody gash to his right front foot during the Belmont Stakes, an injury that may have hurt his chances in his failed bid to sweep the Triple Crown for the first time in 36 years.
An elementary school principal in Fresno shot and killed himself as sheriff's deputies prepared to search his home as part of a child sex abuse investigation that will continue in the aftermath of the suspect's suicide, authorities said.
Officials say they filed suit Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court over the environmental review for the Fresno to Bakersfield section approved last month.
Tom Steyer is creating a fund to help victims of extreme weather disasters, starting with wildfires in California and other western states.
California Chrome has finished his final run-through before he goes for history and the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes.
Nearly a million ballots cast in Tuesday's primary election have not been counted yet, Secretary of State Debra Bowen reported Friday.
For seven years, inmates at a Southern California state prison have learned to express themselves through acting, acquiring skills that actor Tim Robbins says can change their lives.
