San Bernardino has until August 31 to give the feds a full list of its creditors in other documentation supporting the city's petition for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
The retired president of a large Border Patrol union was indicted Thursday on federal charges, after he was accused of pilfering hundreds of thousands in union dues.
San Jose Mercury News reports that Steve Job's iPad was recovered from an unlikely source: in the hands of Kenny the Clown, who did not even realize it.
The World Health Organization is calling for the establishment of a global stockpile of the vaccine to respond to outbreaks like the one that struck Haiti.
Four years ago in Denver, Artur Davis took the podium at the Democratic National Convention. Now, Davis is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention.
The state audit report reported that Caltrans blew $22 million in rental income due to poor management, and the agency released a statement accepting the findings.
Reaching a compromise on public pensions won’t be easy, but there’s extra incentive this year to get it done as Gov. Brown looks for a sales tax increase.
Ontario is taking another step in its effort to take control of the city’s airport from L.A., joining with San Bernardino County to create an airport authority.
The Eid celebration that marks the end of Ramadan is a big deal in majority-Muslim countries, but American Muslims face added practical and spiritual challenges.
New City School in Long Beach has made a big ruckus in the last year as Long Beach Unified has moved to close it for poor performance and financial problems.
Attorneys for Pizza Hut and Home Depot separately denied accusations that music by The Black Keys was improperly used in ads to sell specialty pies and power tools.
“The Breaking Bad Project” opens at Gallery 1988’s Hollywood location on Monday, based on the popular television drama about the world of cooking and dealing meth.
An aide to LA City Councilman Richard Alarcon was charged today with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for allegedly killing a transient while driving a city car.
Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich lost his bid to become District Attorney, but he’s hoping voters will keep him around as the city’s top attorney.
NASA takes the figurative phasers off stun as Curiosity, the world's coolest remote control vehicle, prepares to fire a space laser at an unsuspecting Martian rock.
The City of Los Angeles program that provides public, matching funds for political campaigns could be restricted to gifts made by either city or county residents
Come September, the agoraphobic alchemists of the world will need to find a new online auction site to bid on the supernatural wares of the netherworld.
An alliance of medical marijuana collective owners, vendors and patients sued the city of Los Angeles today to block the implementation of a ban on pot shops.
Today is Friday, Aug. 17 and headlines include a debate between Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, condom enforcement on porn shoots, and a donation to LA's BEST.
A new report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice echoes widespread concerns that California may not be on track to quickly reduce its prison population.
The Patient Care Alliance sued the City of Los Angeles today to block the ban of marijuana dispensaries within the city limits, scheduled for September 6. Last month, the L.A. City...
Saudi Arabia has long been the world’s largest petroleum exporter, and on the other end of the supply chain, the United States was the largest importer, and most of America’s oil comes...
The Obama campaign has made Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of this tax returns a rallying cry in this election. In their first joint-interview, VP pick Paul Ryan...
How long will it take before the Hollywood exodus is complete? Los Angeles has been losing film industry jobs for years, but recent data about the number of television dramas produced...
Since 2005, the percentage of Americans who identify as religious dropped 13 points, while the number who identify as atheists jumped from 1 percent to 5 percent.
A working group in L.A.’s City Administrative Office has issued recommendations on how the city should enforce the mandatory use of condoms in adult films.
Is the Family Research Council a hate group? The head of the conservative Family Research Council says out-sized rhetoric and its inclusion on a list of hate groups contributed to the shooting of an unarmed security guard at their headquarters earlier this week.
Meghan McCarty brings you the Weekend Alibi, a roundup of the best entertainments in Southern California ... so if anyone asks you on Monday morning where you were over the weekend, you'll have something good to tell them.
Madeleine gets the topics for your next party with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, the hosts of KPCC's Dinner Party. On tap this week, the Darwinian explanation for popularity of blonde hair, what exactly is the "Who's Your Daddy Truck," and a very old lunar hoax.
As the street price of powerful pain pills like Oxycontin has soared, many teens and young adults are turning to another narcotic to get a cheap high, heroin.
A week from Monday, Republicans will gather in Tampa, Florida for their party convention. Their first order of business? Voting on the party's official platform. It's a formal statement of the party's basic principles. Hundreds of people have spent months creating the document and the sad truth is that few, if any, will actually read it. Madeleine talks to KPCC's A Martinez about the history of the platform and what goes into writing it.
The Army reported a record number of soldier suicides last month. Thirty-eight soldiers are suspected of killing themselves in July — more than one service member a day.
This past Sunday, kids from Hearts of Los Angeles--an after school arts program--donned paper mache masks for an afternoon performance at Levitt Pavillion.
Rod Roddenberry on the work of the Roddenberry Foundationand "The Mission Log," a new podcast that breaks down "Star Trek - The Original Series" episode by episode.
