Should bullying be a criminal offense? Lawmakers in a California city decided it isn’t, defeating a proposed anti-bullying law on Tuesday, KTLA 5 reports. The…
BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say at least four people were killed and several more suffered serious injuries when a passenger bus overturned on Interstate 10 in Southern California near the Arizona border. Caltrans spokeswoman Terri Kasinga says the crash occurred shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday just west of Blythe when a big rig traveling […]
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman is facing charges that she grabbed a 12-year-old boy by the throat while confronting him about bullying her daughter, authorities said Sunday. Delia Garcia-Bratcher, 30, of Santa Rosa came to an elementary school around lunchtime Friday and asked her son, who also attends the school, to […]
Serena Williams’ father says he won’t return to Indian Wells, Calif., the site of a tournament his daughter has skipped since 2001, when their family was booed — and subjected to racial epithets, according to his new book. “I would never go back,” Richard Williams said in a telephone interview. But he added that it’s […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toyota delivered a surprise pink slip to California on Monday, announcing the company would move its U.S. headquarters and about 3,000 jobs from the Los Angeles suburbs to the outskirts of Dallas. The world’s largest automaker will keep a foothold in the Golden State – about 2,300 jobs will remain in […]
According to a new Bill signed by California lawmakers and passed last week, students will soon be taking courses that teach the significance of what President Barack Obama’s election meant for racial equality and civil rights. Barack Obama’s election marked a “historic step in the effort towards equality in the United States,” said the California […]
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Crews were searching the northern part of San Francisco Bay for a pilot after two small planes collided while heading home from a show, sending one aircraft crashing into the water while the other one safely reached its destination. Debris was found in San Pablo Bay after Sunday afternoon’s collision near […]
Fresh off their headlining-comeback appearance in the Desert at Coachella, OutKast has been selected as this year’s headlining act for the BET Experience at L.A. LIVE, taking place in Los Angeles, CA, June 27 – 29, 2014. BET Networks and AEG made the announcement today. Celebrating their 20-year anniversary, OutKast are ready to create history as they […]
ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — The long bus ride north from Los Angeles for a group of high school students who planned to visit Humboldt State University had been fun: The hours whizzed by as they watched movies, chatted up new friends, and jammed to hip-hop on the radio. Steven Clavijo, 18, a senior at West […]
A baptism on a Southern California beach ended in tragedy when three people were swept into the ocean by a wave Sunday. According to a story from the Santa Maria Times: The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a 43-year-old man, Benito Flores, who was one of the three pulled into the […]
LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) — Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra […]
Even though investigators discovered that Brent Thomas Posada (pictured) accused a Black man of shooting him when he actually shot himself, he was not arrested for…
