Seven men from California have been charged in the “largest jewellery heist in US history”, involving the theft of $100m (£75m) worth of gold, gems, and luxury watches. The heist has been a mystery in California for nearly three years after a Brinks company truck transporting the jewellery was robbed at a remote stop as...
A California doctor accused of giving Friends star Matthew Perry access to ketamine in the weeks before the actor’s overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors. Dr Salvador Plasencia will plead guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine, federal prosecutors said in a statement on Monday. The plea carries a maximum...
As I pointed out here, the case that Los Angeles doesn’t need any additional law enforcement help is looking pretty thin after a dozen or more businesses were looted last night. And yet, Gov. Newsom is suing the Trump administration and today California’s AG Rob Bonta asked for an Emergency Restraining Order to stop the...
Unions and allies in California and across the United States on Saturday are demanding the immediate release of David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West, after the highly regarded labor leader was injured and then arrested while witnessing a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday. “SEIU California...
Earlier this week the Trump administration threatened to fine California after a trans athlete won several track events at the state final competition for girls. Today, CNN is reporting that the administration is indeed working on a plan to cut off federal funding to California, not unlike what the administration has done to Harvard. Details...
After 17 years, California still has no tracks for its high-speed rail. However, the gravy train has run on time in every single fiscal year — until now. A new report from the Department of Transportation reveals that nearly $7 billion in federal funds resulted in exactly zero feet of high-speed track laid in the...
California’s high school athletics’ playoff and championship governing body, commonly known in the Golden State as CIF, hastily took action in the wake of the threat this week by Donald Trump of pulling funding, perhaps permanently, from California if biological boys were allowed to continue competing against biological girls. Title IX of the Education Amendments...
May is the month when student athletes from around California go through a series of competitions in Track and Field events to decide who will make it to the state level competition at the end of the month. Briefly, here’s how it works. Every high school is part of a local league consisting of a...
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, as the old saying goes. And with the Trump administration’s deep bench of on-the-ball heavy hitters, there’s more than one way to get around recalcitrant sanctuary states’ insufferable righteousness, and active interference in immigration enforcement while protecting the worst of the border jumpers in the name...
Officials in Palm Springs, California are investigating an explosion on Saturday morning that killed one person and damaged a fertility clinic. The explosion happened just before 11:00 local time (19:00 BST) less than a mile from downtown Palm Springs, near several businesses including the American Reproductive Centres. In a statement, the fertility clinic said no...
Rapper Tory Lanez has been taken to hospital after he was stabbed at a California prison, state corrections officials said. The Canadian hip-hop artist was attacked by another inmate on Tuesday morning in a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, about 75 miles (120km) north of Los Angeles. Prison staff “responded, activated...
The proposed ordinance would restrict repeated camping and block encampments on sidewalks. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is urging cities and counties to adopt a newly released model ordinance aimed at banning and clearing homeless encampments. The proposal would prohibit unhoused people from repeatedly camping in the same location, restrict encampments that block pedestrian access...
California is set to lose two major oil refineries, bringing the total decline in refining capacity to 21% in three years. This is hardly a surprise. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in California have been waging a war on oil, and environmental regulations make it nearly impossible to continue doing business in the state while...
This story was originally published at Prism. To address unjust policies and conditions, more than 70 incarcerated workers inside Centinela State Prison collectively decided last fall to “slow down” production for the California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA). According to workers who spoke to Prism, the organizing effort was successful — and there may soon be...
The SF Chronicle published an editorial Saturday criticizing California Democrats for repeatedly putting their tired ideology over what actually works in a number of areas. For instance, if you listen to Gov. Newsom, the state needs to build more homes. He recently admitted the state isn’t anywhere close to meeting it’s stated goals for home...