RIVERSIDE, California — Blues singer Etta James is in a Southern California hospital with a potentially deadly infection. Her son, Sametto James, tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise that his mother was admitted to an undisclosed hospital earlier this week for treatment of sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection. Sepsis is a potentially deadly blood poisoning […]

FONTANA, Calif.– A 9-month pregnant woman said she was robbed at gunpoint by an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Kohl’s. NY Daily News reports: The victim, who is nine months pregnant, said she was waiting in the parking lot of a Kohl’s department store in Fontana, Calif., at around 11:00 a.m. when […]

OAKLAND, Calif. — A white former San Francisco Bay area transit officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed black man is expected to be released from jail next week after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence. Johannes Mehserle is scheduled to be set free Monday from a Los Angeles County jail where he served […]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The public defender for a 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his neo-Nazi father in the family’s California home says he might pursue an insanity defense and is seeking records from social workers who have monitored the boy’s family. Matt Hardy said he will also request a psychiatric evaluation before entering a plea […]

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. — An effort to bury the N-word at a California graveyard is gaining momentum. For more than a half-century, 36 grave markers in an El Dorado Hills cemetery 30 miles east of Sacramento have been marked with the provocative racial epithet. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released documents Tuesday acknowledging […]

San Francisco — He isn’t gay, but Lil B naming his album “I’m Gay” hasn’t endeared him to many as he’s received death threats for the title. The rising hip-hop MC and former member of The Pack announced earlier in April that he planned to name his upcoming album “I’m Gay,” despite not being a […]

LOS ANGELES — John Floyd Thomas, Jr., the 74-year-old man accused of raping and killing seven different older women in the seventies and eighties, pleaded guilty on Friday to the California murders. Investigators believe Thomas may be connected with as many as 30 different murders and sexual assaults across Inglewood, Lenox, Los Angeles, and the […]

VIENNA – Radioactive fallout from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has reached Southern California but the first readings are far below levels that could pose a health hazard, a diplomat said Friday.

SAN BRUNO, California — Nearly 20,000 teachers are at risk of losing their jobs at the end of the school year, as districts in California struggle in preparation for budget cuts to relieve the nearly $27 million deficit.

REDONDO BEACH — An estimated one million fish turned up dead Tuesday in a Southern California marina, creating a floating feast for pelicans, gulls and other sea life and a stinky mess for harbor authorities. ALSO READ: 25 Reasons Why We Love Blaxpoitation Movies The sardines apparently depleted the water of oxygen and suffocated after […]

Los-Angeles, California– An 11-year-old California girl aspires to discourage bullying by sharing songs of encouragement on Youtube. The young and passionate writer/singer, India Rockett, plans to continue inspire others when she grows up. Inspired by her younger brother who once was a victim of a bully– Rockett writes songs that are  “filled with insight beyond […]

Banning, CA– Three 13-year-old boys have been arrested after police say they admitted to raping a girl in a park playground as she was walking home from school.