Twenty years ago, the citizens of California qualified Proposition 187 for the ballot, a law that would have withheld public services from those in the country illegally.

The UC system has announced the creation of a sexual assault task force to oversee efforts to prevent sexual violence at UC campuses. It includes two members of the UC Board of Regents, campus police officials, UC and campus administrators, representatives from victim advocacy groups,

California's Assembly Public Safety Committee is slated to vote on a proposed bill tomorrow that would give mandatory sentences to minors convicted of sexually assaulting unconscious or disabled victims.

Team USA and Portugal tied in their World Cup faceoff yesterday. USA was leading 2-1, but a late goal from Portugal’s Silvestre Varela in the 95th minute equalized the game, vastly complicating the US team’s chances of advancing to the next round of the competition.

Enter Price Check, an exciting project that KPCC is launching today, in collaboration with KQED in San Francisco and Clearhealthcosts.com, a health costs transparency company that has been gathering cost data on a variety of medical tests, procedures and services from around the country.

The Observation Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits will reopen this weekend after being closed to the public for decades.