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The U.S. Senate today approved the first federal Vietnamese-American judge. And she’s from Los Angeles.

On Dec. 1, George Lucas, Carol Burnett and Danielle Steel will be walking the red carpet. No, it isn't a premiere of a new space-age romantic comedy in Hollywood. It's a ceremony honoring the new inductees into the Hall of Fame at the California Museum ...

Senate debate over a Democratic-backed health care bill is underway and will continue until Christmas. The measure is supposed to cover the uninsured - eventually. California’s two senators are trying to come up with extra money to help pay the ...

For the third week in a row, the Los Angeles City Council will attempt to pass a new ordinance that regulates medical marijuana dispensaries.

Blaming a paperwork error, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will refile his taxes to clear an Internal Revenue Service lien reported on a celebrity Web site.

The Los Angeles City Council this week approved the extension of a $700,000 federal grant for police video cameras at a South L.A. housing project.

The LAPD’s new chief, Charlie Beck, is spending Thanksgiving Day in a patrol car.

For the time in as many weeks, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday delayed a vote on a new ordinance that would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. The council spent more than seven hours debating the new regulations.

Orange County supervisors are asking California's governor to immediately stop the sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds. The state says it needs to sell the property to help fill the budget gap. The supervisors today unanimously approved the resolution ...

California's next lieutenant governor could be someone who spent part of his childhood in East Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger named Santa Maria State Senator Abel Maldonado to the job. Maldonado grew up spending the summer months with his family in Southern ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his new lieutenant governor last night to the same person he told he was running for governor: NBC host Jay Leno.

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday returns to the sticky issue of medical marijuana dispensaries. Nearly a thousand have sprouted up across the city – most since the Obama administration announced an end to federal raids on them in February.

Orange County travelers have one more option this Thanksgiving. They can park in Orange County and grab a FlyAway bus to LAX. Los Angeles and Irvine officials today officially inaugurated the service.

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday is expected to vote on a new ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries.

The Senate isn’t expected to take up the climate change bill until spring of next year – right before California’s June primary. Barbara Boxer, who co-authored the bill, is up for re-election. Will the global warming debate heat up the her Senate ...

Los Angeles-based artist Shepard Fairey created one of the most important images in the 2008 presidential election. It's a red, white and blue portrait of Barack Obama with the word HOPE. It's one of 150 full color images in the new book "Art for ...

The drive to recall Republican State Assemblyman Anthony Adams over his vote to increase taxes has failed. His district runs from La Canada to Hesperia.

Last month, the committee that serves as the "ethics cop" for the House of Representatives launched new investigations. It's checking into several members of Congress - including Long Beach's Laura Richardson and L.A.'s Maxine Waters. The Richardson ...

A year after the Clean Trucks program began at the harbor complex, the two ports in San Pedro Harbor are headed in divergent directions. The port of Los Angeles continues to fight challenges to pollution controls in court. In Long Beach, harbor ...