Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly, who was fired with one game left in the season, had made himself persona non grata with the players, organization, and especially owner Jeffrey Lurie, with the last straw apparently coming when Kelly forced Lurie to change the date of Lurie’s Christmas party to fit Kelly’s schedule.
If you’re a New York Knicks forward, Christmas in New York ain’t what it used to be.
In a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Harvard University Center for the Environment suggest that violent crime is precipitated by air pollution.
The Al Jazeera reporter who anchored the network’s documentary implying star quarterback Peyton Manning used performance enhancing drugs is suddenly backpedaling furiously from the film’s insinuation.
Al Jazeera, which has made its contempt for the white citizens of America known for years, seized the opportunity to malign a white American icon, Hall of Fame-bound quarterback Peyton Manning, without vetting the story completely. Why?
On Monday afternoon, an elephant seal weighing up to 1,000 pounds climbed out of San Pablo Bay in Sonoma County, then slid its way toward Highway 37, repeatedly trying to cross it before finally stopping on the shoulder.
On Sunday night, for the fourth time this month, a Southwest Airlines plane experienced problems, forcing it to change its landing plans.
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor, Mary Fallin, wrote a December 9 letter to California Governor Jerry Brown thanking him for the help Caltrans officials have offered educating Oklahoma officials regarding earthquakes.
Police in Hope, Arkansas, believe an arsonist set fire to former President Bill Clinton’s childhood home on Friday. According to Hope Police Department Chief J.R. Wilson, early Friday morning a motorist spotted the fire at the Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site.
On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. Here are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:
The Solimar Fire, which started Friday and exploded when overnight 50 mph winds turned it into a 1,236 acre blaze that caused the closure of highway 101, was 60% contained by 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Highway 101 was closed Saturday until 2 p.m. PST.
Next week, three young black women will stand before a Philadelphia judge for savagely beating a homeless white man to death with a hammer and a chair leg last April, all because the 10-year-old son of one of the women lied and said the homeless man struck him.
On Saturday, the Benjamin Franklin, one of the world’s largest cargo ships, will anchor at Port of Los Angeles as it continues its maiden global voyage that started December 10 in China.
According to The Huffington Post, Christians should be in the dark during Christmas – literally.
Neal Conan, the former host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation from 2001 to 2013, is repenting for the fact that he had used the word “schlonged” four years before Donald Trump.
Federal judges in Oakland and Sacramento will not strike down a California law forcing “crisis pregnancy centers” to offer information to clients about where they can obtain an abortion.
Now that Barack Obama has opened relations with Cuba, his White House wants to defy the U.S. trade embargo held in place by the Congress and permit Major League Baseball to sign Cuban players.
A former student of San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) whose wife is dying of cancer is suing the school for misrepresenting its postgraduation employment figures, leaving him driving an Uber to support his family.
On the day after the organization that he has led for all of the 21st century banned him for eight years, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, 79, made the ban academic, announcing his retirement from soccer. He declared, “I’ve finished my work in football.”
Those thinking of purchasing a drone for Christmas, either for themselves or others, may want to take a close look at the rules instituted by the FAA for flying drones.
Soccer moms and the female members of the Santa Clara City Council are furious that the NFL will use the Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park as a “media village” for roughly 6,000 people at Super Bowl 50, which will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on February 7.
On Monday, Chee Kung Tong leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, 56–accused of racketeering, money laundering, murder and conspiracy–told a jury that his violent history stopped in 2003 or 2004 after three days of meditation, according to CBS San Francisco.
According to Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders, New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s state of mind on Sunday, when he received three penalties and targeted Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman with a helmet-to-helmet hit, was deeply affected by pregame threats to end his career and barbs directed at his sexuality. The NFL later suspended Beckham for one game.
The Washington Post—Washington D.C.’s media outlet for the Democratic Party—showed its desperation to stop what it perceives to be the Donald Trump juggernaut, limning him as a white supremacist by association.
On Sunday, for the second time in a week, a Southwest Airlines jet had an on-the-ground accident, as a jet pushing back from its gate bumped into another Southwest jet parked at the next gate.
After the dangerous, dirty play of New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. on Sunday in which he targeted Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman, the NFL looks to suspend Beckham for one game, according to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
A famous property developer who helped develop the Ritz-Carlton developments in Washington and Aspen, Colorado may go to jail because his gargantuan 30,000 square foot Bel-Air, California residence, nicknamed the “Starship Enterprise,” which boasts several floor levels balanced on a hillside and includes a 70-seat IMAX cinema, violated city planning orders.
The University of California has been short-changing thousands of its employees out of small amounts of money that add up to millions of dollars.
Elaine Brown, 72, former head of the Black Panthers from 1974 to 1977, and who was implicated (though never charged) in the murder of accountant Betty Van Patter, is suing the city of Oakland for $1 million after Councilwoman Desley Brooks allegedly assaulted her at a local restaurant.
On Friday, a woman who murdered her six-week-old daughter by putting her in a microwave for up to five minutes was sentenced to 26 years to life in a Sacramento court.
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who has pontificated prolifically that the Washington Redskins should change their name, resorted to vindictiveness when interviewed by the Washington Post, blustering that he loved to see the team lose.
Because of the recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris, in addition to school shootings and threatened bombings that have taken place in recent years, school districts examining how best to deal with threats have found a common thread:
In a shocking break with their party, eight California Democrats supported a GOP bill in Congress that would prevent refugees from Syria and Iraq from entering the U.S. unless the heads of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the director of National Intelligence certify that the refugee would not endanger the U.S.
On Thursday, Bob McNair, the owner of the Houston Texans, and one of the members of the NFL’s Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, canceled a scheduled meeting with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer after McNair issued statements on Monday that insulted local government in San Diego.
On Thursday, federal authorities confirmed that criminal charges are being prepared against Enrique Marquez, the friend and neighbor of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
On Wednesday, the New York Daily News, ever on the march to eviscerate Donald Trump, went after his friend, New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, headlining its front page, “Brady Has No Balls.”
The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is accusing Donald Trump of encouraging hate crimes against Muslims, Latinos and African-Americans.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is defending Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines’s decision to close the district’s schools on Tuesday because of an emailed threat.
On Sunday, a 55-year-old known homeless man was found shot dead near Heritage Park in Santa Ana.
On Tuesday, Tom Brady refused to forswear his friendship with Donald Trump, telling a Boston sports station that Trump was his friend and he does not abandon his friends.
