State Lawmaker Arrested In Basement Of State Capitol On Suspicion Of Drunk Driving
A state lawmaker was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Sacramento on Wednesday night.
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A state lawmaker was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Sacramento on Wednesday night.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the Democratic budget plan approved Wednesday in the Legislature, restarting talks over how to close California's $9.6 billion deficit.
A joke that compared a proposed budget measure to a fictional mafia family nearly brought lawmakers to blows on the California Assembly floor Wednesday afternoon.
Democrats who control California's Legislature passed a series of budget bills Wednesday with few Republican votes, but the plan was widely seen as merely a stopgap to meet the constitutional budget deadline.
A Vallejo special education teacher has pleaded not guilty to a charge of raping a developmentally disabled teachers' aide.
The Legislature was poised to take up a budget proposal Wednesday offered by majority Democrats, but the plan was widely seen as merely a stopgap to meet the constitutional budget deadline.
An eleventh hour maneuver has saved 35 Sacramento police officer's jobs.
The court-appointed receiver who oversees medical care in California's prison system says the state still needs thousands of new prison hospital beds even as Gov. Jerry Brown proposes transferring responsibility for tens of thousands of convicts to local governments.
A California lawmaker's bill to increase the pay of pilots who navigate massive cargo ships through San Francisco Bay is focusing attention on the handsome incomes of these little-known mariners.
A federal judge on Tuesday upheld a gay judge's ruling to strike down California's same-sex marriage ban, noting that his fellow jurist could not be presumed to have a personal stake in the case just because he was in a long-term relationship with another man.
Gov. Jerry Brown called on the Legislature Monday to rise above partisan differences and resist pressure from talk shows, bloggers and anti-tax advocates to pass a California budget that would close the remaining $9.6 billion deficit with temporary taxes and no additional cuts.
A retired federal judge's long-term relationship with another man will be the subject of an unusual and possibly unprecedented court hearing Monday involving California's same-sex marriage ban.
Now that Republican lawmakers have voted against a renewal of expiring tax hikes, Democrats are turning to another, more complex way to generate revenue.
Just days ahead of their deadline to pass a balanced budget, state lawmakers struggled on Saturday to compromise on the most contentious issue to close California's remaining $9.6 billion deficit -- whether to renew expiring tax increases.
