California | Local | Paloma Esquivel | June 11, 2009
Key Orange County executives and elected officials will be asked to take a 5% pay cut as part of the ongoing effort to slash more than $1 billion from the county's budget, supervisors decided Wednesday.
California | Local | Michael Rothfeld | June 9, 2009
A former member of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Cabinet who resigned in March has paid $5,400 in fines to a state watchdog agency for violating a ban on accepting speaking fees, while saying administration officials knew what she was doing and never advised her to stop.
World | Tracy Wilkinson | May 27, 2009
Mexican security forces swept into President Felipe Calderon's home state of Michoacan on Tuesday and arrested a total of 27 mayors and other government officials, the largest operation to target politicians in Mexico's bloody drug war.
California | Local | David Zahniser | May 9, 2009
As a member of the powerful Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions board, Sean Harrigan's private financial life intersected repeatedly with the business of his agency, which oversees a $10.
National | Peter Nicholas | May 9, 2009
An Obama administration official who took the blame for the Air Force One flyover in lower Manhattan last month gave his resignation Friday, after a White House investigation into a botched photo op that frightened New Yorkers with its echo of the Sept.
Science | Marc Silva | May 4, 2009
As the number of H1N1 influenza cases continued its slow climb, reaching 245 in 30 states in the United States and at least 903 worldwide, both Mexican and U.
World | John M. Glionna | April 28, 2009
Ex-President Roh Moo- hyun will enter familiar territory for a former South Korean head of state this week when he is grilled by prosecutors over his alleged role in a national bribery scandal.