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Your guide to the race for L. A. mayor: Four major challengers look to unseat Karen Bass
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (1732+ words) Karen Bass made history four years ago, beating real estate developer Rick Caruso by about 10 percentage points and becoming the first woman elected as Los Angeles mayor. This time around, the 72-year-old incumbent is in an even tougher fight, facing…...
Your guide to the L. A. City Council District 11 race: Traci Park vs. Faizah Malik
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (1111+ words) Traci Park won the Los Angeles City Council's 11th District seat in 2022 on a promise to clean up the rising number of homeless encampments dotting the affluent Westside district. The homelessness issue is again near center stage as Park faces a…...
Your guide to the L. A. County Superior Court judge elections: every competitive race
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (1698+ words) Fifteen seats on the Los Angeles County Superior Court are up for election June 2, but only 11 of the contests are competitive with two or more candidates. Binh Q. Dang (Office 39), Ann M. Maurer (Office 60), Mariela Torres (Office 141) and Candice J. Henry (Office 196) are…...
Your guide to the L. A. City Council District 9 race: six candidates seek South L. A. seat
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (1180+ words) The last time Los Angeles City Council District 9 was represented by someone not named Curren Price, Barack Obama was president and Antonio Villaraigosa was in his final term as mayor of Los Angeles. But after 12 years in office, Price is…...
Your guide to the California insurance commissioner's race: Who will replace Ricardo Lara?
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (283+ words) The California Department of Insurance calls itself the largest consumer protection agency in the state, with nearly 1, 400 employees regulating home, auto and other insurance. But the election to replace outgoing Commissioner Ricardo Lara is virtually about only one topic: home…...
State senator sues Sacramento, accuses police of fabricating evidence in 'retaliatory' DUI arrest
3+ week, 2+ day ago (920+ words) A California state senator alleges that police officers fabricated evidence to falsely accuse her of driving under the influence after she was T-boned at an intersection near the state Capitol. Their motive, she claims, was discriminatory bias and a piece…...
'Revolution' or 'chaos': The massive stakes if a Republican becomes California governor
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (1444+ words) If conservative commentator Steve Hilton is elected California's next governor, as President Trump wants, it would mark a "political revolution" for the liberal state, the candidate said. The state's Democrat-controlled Legislature, "after all their years of lecturing us about democracy,…...
Hegseth recites 'Pulp Fiction' speech at Pentagon prayer service
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (784+ words) WASHINGTON'Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, leading a Pentagon prayer meeting, quoted a fictional Bible verse taken from a violent monologue in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction," originally delivered by actor Samuel L. Jackson just before his character shoots a helpless man to…...
He's telling Californians they can't trust elections " and it's catching on with the GOP
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1752+ words) REDDING'At a Board of Supervisors meeting in rural Shasta County last month, Clint Curtis dropped a bombshell: A sheriff way down in Riverside was going to confiscate all the ballots from a recent election. Curtis, the county registrar of voters,…...
Federal judge could halt Nexstar-Tegna TV station merger
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1042+ words) SACRAMENTO'A federal judge appears willing to block a $6. 2-billion merger of two large TV station groups as he evaluates whether Nexstar Media Group's takeover of a rival violates U. S. antitrust laws. At the conclusion of a two-hour hearing in Sacramento on…...