Marlon Byrd homered twice to drive in five runs and the Texas Rangers again had their way at home against Joe Saunders, beating the AL West-leading Los Angeles Angels 9-5 on Tuesday night.
Ian Kinsler, Nelson Cruz and David Murphy also went deep for Texas, which ended what had been one of the worst offensive months in team history with a season-high five home runs – four in 3 2-3 innings off Saunders (8-5).
The chief of the nation’s second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s magazine photo shoot with high school football players. Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines isn’t amused by the GQ magazine photos shot at Birmingham High School that feature the “Borat” star in his new incarnation as gay Austrian fashionista “Bruno.”
As a massive memorial is discussed, work begins on the star’s complicated estate.
The posthumous affairs of Michael Jackson boiled down to two things Tuesday: His memorial service will draw a huge crowd and the settling of his estate will be complicated.
The U.S. District Court judge considering a constitutional challenge to California’s gay marriage ban says that blocking the law would make uncertain the marriages performed before a final ruling.
A federal judge weighing a constitutional challenge of Proposition 8 said Tuesday that he was not likely to suspend the anti-gay marriage law without a trial.
Chief William J. Bratton had called for the termination of four officers accused of using excessive force on journalists and demonstrators at a gathering in MacArthur Park.
None of the Los Angeles police officers accused of using excessive force on demonstrators and journalists at a 2007 May Day gathering at MacArthur Park will be fired, officials said Tuesday.
They refused to cave in to pressure from their state Senate colleagues — no voluntary 5% pay cuts for them.
By the time you read this, either the ink will be drying on California’s last-ditch budget deal or the state will be poised to issue IOUs.
The plan would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency and make banks and non-banks subject to the same rules. Some Republicans and business groups say it threatens economic freedom.
President Obama, pushing a key part of his overhaul of financial regulations, sent to Congress a draft bill that would create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which he said would better protect Americans from unscrupulous practices and make financial products easier to understand.
Only two of more than 100 speakers support the resumption of executions once legal challenges are addressed.
Corrections officials heard overwhelming condemnation of proposed new lethal injection procedures Tuesday at the first-ever public hearing on execution methods in the state.
The transportation initiative passed by voters in November pushes L.A. County’s rate up to 9.75%, one of the highest in California.
A new half-cent sales tax to build transportation projects in Los Angeles County goes into effect Wednesday, raising the county’s rate to 9.75%. But the measure passed by voters in November might generate about $1.8 billion less than originally estimated.
The reductions, mostly in education, would have to be passed by midnight, but they face a likely veto. A state panel cuts car allowances, health benefits and living-expense payments for legislators.
State leaders will forfeit more than $3 billion in potential budget cuts when their fiscal year ends at midnight if lawmakers and the governor fail to resolve their dispute over how to end California’s financial crisis.
