OAKLAND – Acting to help California’s working families, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed AB 10 by Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas), which will raise the minimum wage in California from $8.00 per hour to $10.00 per hour. “It’s a special day to stand with workers who are laboring for all of us and laboring […]
SACRAMENTO – Michael R. Morrow, 70, who escaped from a California state prison in 1977, was apprehended on September 23 in Garland County, Arkansas, said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). CDCR’s Special Service Unit, assisted by the department’s Criminal Intelligence and Analysis Unit, developed new leads in the 36-year-old case. Morrow had […]
San Francisco, CA…After staging an improbable comeback from 7 points behind and with no margin for error, ORACLE TEAM USA has forced a winner-take-all race tomorrow for the 34th America’s Cup after sweeping both races today. ORACLE TEAM USA won Race 17 by 27 seconds and Race 18 by 54 seconds and now stands even […]
Sacramento, CA…California has taken a major step today to protect our children with the Governor’s signing of SB 568, a measure that increases privacy protections for minors on the internet. Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg’s measure will allow children and adolescents under the age of 18 to remove their postings on internet and social […]
“Without the right of privacy, there is no real freedom of speech or freedom of opinion, and so there is no actual democracy,” Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil
ORACLE TEAM USA’s improbable comeback is alive and well in the 34th America’s Cup. Skipper Jimmy Spithill led the defender to another wire-to-wire victory in Race 16 and now needs just three more victories to successfully defend the America’s Cup. Challenger Emirates Team New Zealand finished 33 seconds in arrears, but still leads on the […]
Fresno, CA…A joint program between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Caltrans that helps parolees cultivate job skills is expanding to Los Angeles, Fresno, Stockton and San Bernardino. This year, the Caltrans Work Crew program will give 136 parolees an opportunity to earn a wage cleaning up roadside litter and to learn […]
Hoboken, NJ…It’s a fact: women in business are on the rise. We’ve all heard of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, both of whom rocketed Wonder Woman-like through the glass ceiling to become household names. And those two famous females are hardly alone: women now occupy 24% of corporate senior leadership positions […]
Monterey, CA – CAL FIRE plans to conduct a prescribed burn on private property in the Gabilan Range near Hollister in San Benito County on Tuesday, September 24, 2013. The purpose of the project is to prepare control lines for a large prescribed burn later this month or October. The project is dependent upon proper […]
Santa Cruz, CA…On September 22, 2013, at approximately 0717′ hours, a rear-end collision occurred on SR-l, north of Market Street resulting in an overturned vehicle and a car tire. The driver ofthe Mitsubishi was traveling southbound on SR-l, north ofthe Market Street undercrossing, approaching the Chevrolet’s location. The driver ofthe Chevrolet was traveling southbound on […]
