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State Senator Ted Gaines, R-Rocklin, watches as the votes are posted for one of the state budget bills at the Capitol Friday, June 14, 2013 in Sacramento, Calif. Both houses of the Legislature approved the $96.3 billion budget plan on party line votes: 28-10 in the Senate and 54-25 in the Assembly.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Votes remain on handful of state budget measures

After approving the main state budget bill a full day ahead of their constitutional deadline, California legislators are returning to work with only a handful of measures still to consider. The remaining bills are designed to carry out various aspects of the spending plan they approved on Friday. The measures ...

  • 8:04 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013

Contractor gets $20 million bonus if Bay Bridge opens on time

The contractor building the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will get a $20 million bonus if the span opens Labor Day weekend. The Contra Costa Times reports that American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises and government agencies overseeing the project agreed to the bonus in September 2010 as part ...

  • 9:59 a.m. Friday, June 14, 2013

Report: BART official earns $330K without working

A top official for the agency that manages the San Francisco Bay Area's BART system earned more than $330,000 last year -- even though she didn't work a single day for the public transit agency, a newspaper reported Sunday. Bay Area Rapid Transit general manager Dorothy Dugger resigned under pressure ...

  • 3:03 p.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, talks with the committee's ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 6, 2013, during the committee's hearing regarding IRS conference spending. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews

A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set in motion the review, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a partial transcript ...

  • 11:05 a.m. Sunday, June 9, 2013
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 18, 2012 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 94th birthday with family in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela was taken to a hospital Saturday to be treated for a recurrence of a lung infection and is in "serious but stable" condition, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam-file)

South Africa: Mandela has lung infection

South Africans on Saturday said their thoughts were with former President Nelson Mandela, who was in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection. Mandela, who is 94 years old, was treated in a hospital several times in recent months, ...

  • 3:24 p.m. Saturday, June 8, 2013
An unidentified law enforcement official stands Saturday June 8, 2013, by weapons and other evidence recovered from the gunman in Friday's deadly shooting rampage that left four people dead, in Santa Monica, Calif. The gunman killed his father and brother at their home and another man at nearby Santa Monica College, authorities said. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

Chief says Santa Monica killings were premeditated

Police investigating why a heavily armed gunman plotted a rampage that killed four people and wounded several others were focused Saturday on how the violence began: directed at his own family. What started as domestic violence led to a chaotic street shooting spree and ended less than 15 minutes later ...

  • 1:26 p.m. Saturday, June 8, 2013
Did Clintons, Obama make deal for 2016 support?

Did Clintons, Obama make deal for 2016 support?

According to a new version of Ed Klein's best-selling book "The Amateur," the Clintons made a deal with Obama to endorse Hillary in 2016.

  • 8:51 a.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013

Disgraced Santa Clara supervisor faces new charges

Disgraced Supervisor George Shirakawa is in trouble with the law again, this time over an act of political trickery. Shirakawa was charged Wednesday morning with felony impersonation for mailing flyers meant to discredit a candidate running for San Jose City Council in 2010. Having been informed of the new charges ...

  • 10:59 a.m. Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Sign carrying demonstrators representing doctors, hospitals and unionized health care workers rallied against a 10 percent cut in the amount the state pays for Medi-Cal reimbursements, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 4, 2013. The protestors called for Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature to restore the reimbursement rate for the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Health care providers rally, say Medi-Cal cuts will limit access

Health care providers rallying at the Capitol on Tuesday warned that a Central Valley medical center could shut down and doctors throughout California could stop accepting Medicaid patients if a state funding cut is not reversed. Thousands of people representing doctors, hospitals and unionized health care workers filled the Capitol ...

  • 6:46 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Burris: Police treatment of off-duty SF cop was racial profiling

An attorney for a San Francisco police officer who was pulled over and allegedly harassed by other officers the week before said Tuesday that the incident is “quite disturbing” and an example of racial profiling. Civil rights lawyer John Burris said it was appropriate for the other officers to stop ...

  • 5:59 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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