Schools Increasingly Check Students For Obesity
Chula Vista school district among schools working to calculate BMI for students.
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Chula Vista school district among schools working to calculate BMI for students.
A moderate earthquake that rattled a swath of Southern California forced several dozen people in one community out of their homes after firefighters discovered foundation problems that made the buildings unsafe to enter, authorities said Saturday.
10-year-old California girl traveled to the Vatican to ask Pope Francis for help while her father faced deportation.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake has hit Southern California, north of Anaheim, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Legislative Counsel Bureau pointed toward a 2011 legal decision in New Jersey where an assemblyman's pay was stripped following a flurry of indictments.
Here is a history of the legal troubles of Sens. Ron Calderon, Roderick Wright and Leland Yee that have cast a pall on the crumbling Democratic supermajority in the state Senate.
The passenger, Christopher Leo Knight, drew a handgun and opened fire on the officers, hitting one in the in the leg and the other in the arm
California officials say they are seeing a late surge in the number of people signing up for health insurance coverage ahead of next week's deadline — and they are encouraging more people to apply.
The California Senate voted Friday to suspend three lawmakers who face charges in separate criminal cases after the latest one to be hauled into court refused to step down, the most serious house-cleaning action the chamber has taken in more than a century.
Sheriff's officials in California say two women accused of chaining up their 8-year-old daughter to prevent her from getting food have claimed the girl weighed only 40 pounds because she went on hunger strikes.
A judge ordered that ballot materials call Dan Schnur a political involvement educator instead of as a political reform advocate.
Opponents of the law said that saddling a student with a bad teacher for just one year can cost a youngster tens of thousands of dollars in future lifetime earnings.
Court documents allege that Yee sought campaign donations in exchange for introducing an undercover FBI agent to an arms trafficker.
The blast killed eight people, injured dozens of others and sparked a fireball that laid waste to 38 homes in the bedroom community that still bears scars from the accident.
A former gang leader with ties to San Francisco's Chinatown who was praised for cleaning up his public image after serving more than a decade in prison now faces up to 95 years behind bars on money-laundering and other charges.
