JERRY BROWN

Budgets for the Metropolitan Adult Education Program (MAEP) have been slashed by 67 percent leading to suspension of many programs from the next academic year.

Austerity has come to America through state and local governments.

California’s governor Jerry Brown has unveiled a budget plan for the state which will cut welfare spending in half, reduce the state university’s systems coffers by 20 percent and slash healthcare coverage for the poor.

While the House of Representatives is moving towards repealing the national healthcare reform law passed last year, residents of the nation’s largest state are facing another round of health insurance rate hikes.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes the youngest member of the California Hall of Fame on Tuesday when the state museum in Sacramento also honors singer Barbra Streisand, Titanic filmmaker James Cameron and others.

It was called the “Facebook Election” when Obama won nearly 70 percent of the vote among Americans under age 25 reaching them through Facebook. Essentially, Obama won on the wave of youth support, using Facebook.

The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether a California law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to minors violated constitutional free-speech rights, the first time it will rule on a video game case.

California's attorney general asked a court on Tuesday to bar Michael Jackson's former doctor, Conrad Murray, from practicing medicine while he faces charges in connection with the pop star's death.

California was awarded $19.5 million in a settlement against Royal Dutch Shell Plc's U.S. unit for not storing fuel properly at filling stations in the state, Attorney General Jerry Brown said on Friday.

California's attorney general sued State Street Corp on Tuesday for committing an unconscionable fraud against the state's largest pension funds and is seeking to recover more than $200 million in alleged illegal overcharges and penalties.

Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said on Wednesday it is probing fees paid by outside money managers to win its business, expanding a review of pay-to-play schemes at public retirement systems that has spread across the nation.

California's attorney-general sued Los Angeles money manager Stanley Chais on Tuesday, accusing the celebrity fund manager of funneling money into Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

California's attorney general said on Wednesday his office has run several doctors' names and several potential aliases through its prescription drug database to aid police investigating the death of Michael Jackson.

California's attorney general said on Wednesday his office has run dozens of doctors' names, some of them thought to be aliases, through its prescription drug database to aid police investigating the death of Michael Jackson.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed criminal charges on Thursday against three men for allegedly swindling more than 1,000 individuals in a $200 million real estate and construction Ponzi scheme, his office said today.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that a California law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors and imposing labeling requirements is too restrictive and violates free speech guarantees. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the labeling requirement unfairly forces video games to carry the state's controversial opinion about which games are violent. Th...

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a California law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors and imposing labeling requirements is too restrictive and violates free speech guarantees. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the labeling requirement unfairly forces video games to carry the state's controversial opinion about which games are violent. ...

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a California law restricting the sales and rental of violent video games to minors and imposing labeling requirements violates free speech guarantees. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the labeling requirement unfairly forces video games to carry the state's controversial opinion about which games are violent. The 2005 law, which re...