California Study: Truancy Data Shows Racial Divide
African-American elementary students in California were chronically truant at nearly four times the rate of all students during the last school year, according to a state report released Friday.
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African-American elementary students in California were chronically truant at nearly four times the rate of all students during the last school year, according to a state report released Friday.
Support for California's death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in more than 50 years after a judge ruled it unconstitutional, according to a Field Poll released Friday.
Gov. Jerry Brown appealed a court ruling that struck down tenure and other job protections for California's teachers, setting himself apart from leaders in some other states who have fought to end such protections or raise the standards for obtaining them.
California's attorney general says she will appeal a federal court ruling that struck down the state's death penalty.
California has suspended GI education benefits at all colleges owned by the Corinthian Colleges group. They say they're trying to protect hundreds of veterans who currently use the GI Bill.
Calderon took to his seldom-used Twitter account for the first time since the federal charges were handed down to post a scan of an online column
State will appeal court ruling that overturned concealed weapons restrictions in San Diego County.
Her campaign says she will take out papers to run again on Wednesday at the San Francisco Department of Elections.
A San Diego man allegedly operated a revenge porn website so that he could extort money from victims.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay nearly $300 million to California's public employee and teacher pension funds as part of a settlement related to mortgage-related investments, state Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday.
A Sacramento man has been sentenced to nine years in state prison for defrauding Caltrans out of nearly $1.9 million.
Investigators say a local man was taking exotic trips, and even bought a home, with ripped-off taxpayer money.
A Sacramento man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly invoicing Caltrans for print ads his company was supposed to create and run in local newspapers, but never did, Caltrans says.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to lobby Congress and the Justice Department for more money to hire state and local law enforcement officers.
Legislation that has the backing of California's attorney general would close a loophole in the nation's toughest assault weapons law, making it more difficult for guns to be swiftly reloaded with high-capacity magazines.
According to state Attorney General Kamala Harris, 1,209 guns were recently taken from those barred from gun possession and from others deemed to be mentally unstable.
Kamala Harris had an early start punching through barriers. Today, Harris, 46, is herself leading the way: She is California's first female attorney general and the first minority to hold the job.
Democrat Kamala Harris has been sworn in as attorney general, becoming the first woman and first minority to hold California's top law enforcement office.
