The U.S. military is aiding police in a California conduct ''counterinsurgency'' operations as part of a crack down on gang related violence in the city of Salinas, a relationship officials admit pushes the boundaries of the constitutional bar on the military operating within U.S. borders but one that should be expanded nationwide.
Welcome to Tiburon. Click. Your presence has been noted. The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is poised to do something unprecedented: use cameras to record the license plate number of every vehicle that crosses city limits.
Attorney Terry Chapko reports a $105 million award to 120,000 former and current baristas in a class action tip-sharing lawsuit against Starbucks. The suit was initiated in October 2004 by Jou Chau, a former barista in La Jolla, CA, who alleged Starbucks supervisors were illegally forcing baristas to share tips with them since October 2000. Yesterday, Judge Patricia Y. Cowett of California Superior Court in San Diego ruled that Starbucks must provide restitution, with interest, of over $100 million. Thats almost $1,000 per barista! She also enjoined Starbucks from sharing any more tips with supervisors.
In November, Tesoro sued ConocoPhillips' subsidiary Tosco Corp. charging Tosco had disposed of waste improperly at the 168,000 barrel per day (bpd) Martinez, California, refinery, and concealed the soil and groundwater contamination when Tesoro bought the plant.
Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum”. After that, he grins, “it’s a brave new world”.
In gripping testimony delivered to a hushed courtroom, a 21-year old woman described under oath a terrifying chain of events that she said she and two girlfriends experienced on Halloween night in an upscale Long Beach neighborhood.
In roughly two hours of clearly delivered, composed testimony on December 1, the woman indicated that she and two of her female friends (both aged 19) were dressed in Halloween night/party attire (she was "Betty Boop") and approached the SE corner of Bixby Rd. and Linden Ave. to visit a neighborhood "haunted house."
Los Angeles is becoming a "Third World city" with immigrants making up half its workforce, says a new study.
A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 per cent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found.
It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and nursing. The organisation added that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the US.
Democratic House Representative Rush D. Holt, Jr. (NJ-12) talks to CBS about the lack of accountability put on electronic voting machines whose results are impossible to verify.
