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HIGHER education in the state got its start in the Gold Rush era,
when Jesuits and Methodists both established institutions in the
Northern California town of Santa Clara.
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On his recent book tour, Robert Luedke skimmed four nearly empty rows
of folding chairs at a Borders bookstore, hoping someone in the
audience – an audience of three – would have a question.
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With its first year tucked under its belt, the University of
California Merced – which cost more than $500 million and took
nearly 20 years to plan – still lacks federal permission to build on
wetlands near the fledgling campus.
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Seven of the world’s best poker players have pulled their chips
together to fight the World Poker Tour.
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When Susan Murphy read in the paper that a model hoping for her big
break through a photography shoot had been missing for almost a week,
she said she had to tell the police her story.
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South Los Angeles urban farmers scored their first victory in court
Wednesday in their last-ditch effort to regain what used to be a lush
community garden in a rough industrial area.
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A business associate who is suing Michael Jackson over a $1.6-million
financial dispute tried to go behind the pop star’s back and sell
rights to a charity record to a Japanese company, Jackson’s former
lawyer testified Monday.
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In a videotaped deposition played for a Santa Monica jury Friday, pop
star Michael Jackson said he was insulted by the accusation he would
take money from a business associate to go on shopping sprees or buy
jewelry for Elizabeth Taylor.
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A Santa Monica jury on Thursday watched a videotaped deposition of
Michael Jackson insisting that he knew little about his own business
affairs and had no idea that a close associate now suing him for
unpaid fees had been a pornographer.
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The city of Santa Monica does not have to defend itself in a lawsuit
filed over the 2003 farmers market crash that killed 10 people and
injured 63 others, a Superior Court judge ruled.
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