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Dec 2009
The exodus of employees approved to ease budget problems will drain the workforce of many experienced people and leave Los Angeles officials hampered in hiring replacements until 2024.
Spurred by its biggest economic crisis in a generation...
19
Dec 2009
Although the state's lethal injection table has been idle for the last four years because of legal challenges, California continues to hand down death sentences. (Photo: Associated Press / January 17, 1996)
Los Angeles County sent more...
19
Dec 2009
The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday.
Delaying the requirement, which faces opposition...
18
Dec 2009
With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State.
(Photo: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith...