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At least 15 judges and lawyers have applied to replace two of the most conservative members of the Florida Supreme Court.

CSX is resuming its annual meeting in Jacksonville, but it is uncertain what will be on the agenda.

The board takes a major step toward a series of projects over the next three decades, including the long-awaited subway to the sea. The state Legislature must approve the ballot measure first, though. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to seek a half-cent-on-t...

Attorney Pierce O'Donnell was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday on charges of funneling $26,000 in contributions to the campaign of a candidate in the 2004 presidential election through employees of his law firm and other people, according to the indictment.

Steve Cooley says a growing number of fake identities are being used to bilk a state-funded, Los Angeles County-run program that helps the disabled and elderly. Charges have been filed against 21 people accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million in benefits from a state-funded program designed...

By hedging its fuel purchases, the bargain carrier shows a profit increase as competitors dump flights. Southwest Airlines Co. this fall is on track to become the busiest carrier at Los Angeles International Airport and at three of the four regional airports in Southern California as high fuel prices forc...

Mayor pleads not guilty Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of conflict of interest and misappropriation of $500,000 in public funds. The accusations stem from a city low-interest loan program originally intended to help Inglewood administrators live in town.

Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.

The U.S. attorneys had to be disqualified because of an 'untrue and unfounded' report that former O.C. sheriff Michael Carona had a romantic relationship with the former U.S. attorney in L.A. An "untrue and unfounded" report that former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona had a romantic relationship w...

The board takes a major step toward a series of projects over the next three decades, including the long-awaited subway to the sea. The state Legislature must approve the ballot measure first, though. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to seek a half-cent-on-t...

At the Ronald Reagan State Office Building, anger and dismay greet the governor's plan to impose the federal minimum wage until a budget is signed. 'There's just no way,' a legal secretary says. No one likes to wake up to the news that the boss may slash salaries to the minimum wage.

If lifelong Republican Dan Ardell is any indication, the Arizona senator has a big problem. D an Ardell is a retired 67-year-old Republican who's living the good life in Corona del Mar. He's also John McCain's worst nightmare.

The state's U.S. senators are backing a bill to rename North Palisade after the first executive director of the Sierra Club. But the local congressman isn't sold on the idea. California's U.S. senators have introduced a bill to rename the state's third-highest peak after David Brower, the fiery environmen...

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Steve Cooley says a growing number of fake identities are being used to bilk a state-funded, Los Angeles County-run program that helps the disabled and elderly. Charges have been filed against 21 people accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million in benefits from a state-funded program designed...

The former L.A. City Hall power broker was tried on 21 counts A jury found former Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong guilty of public corruption Thursday, ending a criminal investigation that figured in former Mayor James K. Hahn's 2005 election defeat.

Attorney Pierce O'Donnell was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday on charges of funneling $26,000 in contributions to the campaign of a candidate in the 2004 presidential election through employees of his law firm and other people, according to the indictment.

Jasmine Sanders was sitting outside with friends and family when two teenage approached the crowd and began firing, police say. 'She didn't deserve this,' her mother says. Police are searching for two armed teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old girl in South Los Angeles.

The women -- some just out of prison, others recently homeless -- have been given a chance to succeed, learning the techniques of fine cuisine at a Los Angeles cafe operated by a homeless center. Not long after Felicia Cuellar started working at The Village Kitchen, she began to suspect that the purple po...