One of the nation's top bond rating agencies Monday announced it would reassess its bond rating of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a move that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa blamed on the City Council's failure to approve electricity rate hikes last...
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The body of a Los Angeles policeman who was killed while serving in Afghanistan has been returned to California.
Hundreds of Marines and police officers were on hand Monday as the flag-draped coffin of 45-year-old Robert J. Cottle was flown into the Los...
When Sgt. Eddie Chan makes traffic stops, the San Jose officer makes it a point never to tell drivers how much their ticket will cost. He's afraid they'll go ballistic.
Fines on traffic tickets have surged in the past five years as the state has added...
Guns, beers, fisticuffs and police, on any other day this combination is almost sure to result in criminal charges, but the elements came together to take-on cancer in the City of Hope's "Fight for Life."
Spectators poured into the Quiet Cannon Golf...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, of all people, should have known better.
The Department of Water and Power, for all its allure and cash, can do more to harm a political career than help one. Just ask former Mayor James Hahn, whose image was tarnished by some...
As Sacramento County continues to negotiate for contract concessions from its employee unions to save money next fiscal year, officials are looking ahead to changes in the county's pension system that could save significant money in the future.
Some...
Cell phones are causing fewer accidents since California outlawed the use of handheld devices behind the wheel, but the senator behind the law says too many people are still driving distracted.
A bill by Sen. Joe Simitian would create a bigger deterrent...
Threats this week by Los Angeles' powerful municipal utility to withhold $73 million from the treasury helped reveal a city that has become increasingly dependent on indirect and onetime sources of revenue to pay its bills.
Combined with the worst...
As parts of the San Fernando Valley experience a surge in gang-related killings and car burglaries, an additional 49 police officers were redeployed to the Valley Bureau this week under a citywide shift aimed at maintaining emergency response times.
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A bruising political fight among Los Angeles' top elected leaders over a proposed hike in electricity rates threatened Thursday to deepen the city's financial crisis while suggesting that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had sharply misread the public mood at a time...
The Los Angeles chief of police took the podium at the Galen Center, continuing a conversation he started with the University Park and Exposition Park neighborhoods more than 30 years ago as an officer working his beat.
But Charlie Beck told the crowd on...
A major looming problem for Americans is the accidental retirement plan - known to most people as the 401(k) - which began as a tax loophole to shelter the income of executives.
For decades, tens of millions of retired Americans were able to sustain...
Twenty-two killings in just 13 days have put the LAPD on alert and brought a surprising end to the low crime trend of recent years, reports La Opinión. The unusual surge in homicides, which has been a lingering fear for several months as a result of the early...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa once organized for a teacher's union here, and later ran a branch of the American Federation of Government Employees. That makes him an unlikely advocate for cutting the benefits of the city's workers.
But with the city facing...
The Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dueled over rate increases late Wednesday, with each side rejecting the other's proposal to boost the price of electricity.
By the end of the night, the standoff had...
In the wake of fatal police shootings in Washington, Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved new laws that increase state benefits for the survivors of slain police officers.
According to the...
Inmates convicted of violent crimes are among those being freed early from California jails to save money, despite lawmakers' promises that they would exclude most dangerous prisoners and sex offenders.
An Associated Press review of inmate data shows...
A coalition of immigrant rights groups Tuesday demanded the ouster of the nation's top immigration official, charging that underlings at Immigration and Customs Enforcement were thwarting Obama administration policy by setting a quota on deportations.
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As California cities and counties struggle to fulfill the generous pay and pension commitments that they made to public employees during flush economic times, some politicians have taken comfort in a usually forbidding word: bankruptcy. Top officials in Los...
The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph "cushion" police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit.
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Los Angeles County leads most of the nation in death row justice, trumping even Texas in the number of inmates sentenced to capital punishment last year, according to an ACLU report released Tuesday.
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With every seat filled in the Los Angeles City Council chambers Wednesday, Anita Edwards had one minute to make her case before the buzzer cut her off.
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If police officers find grainy white powder at a makeshift lab and assume they've made a drug bust, they could be making an explosive mistake.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether illegal payments were made to employees at California public pension fund giant CalPERS and others to influence where they invested money. This is part of several nationwide probes into many public pension...
A deeply divided Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday backed increases in electric rates, acknowledging they will be painful for customers but insisting the hikes are needed to maintain the Department of Water and Power's financial health.
The council's...
After retiring from the Cleveland Police Department and Cleveland SWAT, I moved to the San Francisco area. So on Saturday March 21, 2009, I was watching local TV when the reports of the Oakland police murders started coming in. "Two OPD Motor Officers Shot and...
Two deported sex offenders, including one with an outstanding criminal warrant in Los Angeles, were arrested by border agents in separate incidents in Imperial County, authorities said Tuesday.
Federal agents Friday apprehended a man 29 miles west of the...
A recent series of killings in Los Angeles has nearly erased impressive gains made this year on the city's homicide rate, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday.
Over the last 11 days, 19 people have been killed. The bloodshed brings the number of killings...
Running the recent Los Angeles Marathon was a triumph for thousands of people who made it through 26.2 miles of city streets. But for one runner, Jay Yim, the day didn't exactly go as planned.
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California state lawmakers remain the highest paid in the nation by far, according to a survey by a state panel that is considering a 10% reduction in their salary.
Despite an 18% pay cut last year, the $95,291 salary of California lawmakers is still...
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