Seven Marines were killed in a helicopter collision near Yuma, Arizona Wednesday night, and six of the victims were based out of San Diego County's Camp Pendleton. Two attack helicopters - an AH-1W Super Cobra and a UH-1Y Super Huey - collided in midair around 8pm during a nighttime training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. more ›

Remember SB 1070, that racist pesky law passed by Arizona voters last year that requires police officers to question the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest who they believe might be in the country illegally? Well, after being enacted by voters and then halted, in part, by a federal judge, a case will now go before the Supreme Court to determine whether the injunction should remain in effect, and possibly whether the law itself is constitutional. more ›

If you are among the 50,000 drivers with outstanding fines due for red light camera tickets, sorry, but the city is still looking to collect that money from you. Today the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of continuing to pay the contractor hired to collect those fines. more ›

If you're going to streak across a sports arena, you should try to choose an opportune moment to do it. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way for one local nudie as he ran around Arizona stadium in the buff yesterday during a UCLA-Arizona game. According to NBC Los Angeles, the streaker came out onto the field dressed as a referee. more ›

You didn't forget that the City of Los Angeles (mostly) objects to Arizona, right? Remember we passed a boycott of our neighbor-state in May 2010 following their signing into law SB 1070, a controversial immigration policy. (Then L.A. and CA got boycott happy!) So how are we holding up on that boycott? more ›

When an electrical outage hit San Diego Thursday night, the rides at Sea World froze, everyone lost refrigerated food, sewage flowed into the ocean — and one utility worker in Arizona bore the brunt of the blame. That's not fair, say ratepayers advocates. more ›

Power is back up and running in San Diego after yesterday's massive blackout which is being called the worst in our state's history. Not only were San Diego Gas & Electric's 1.4 million customers left in the dark, but millions of people in Arizona, California's Orange and Imperial Counties, and even Mexico, were affected. What caused the power to go out? more ›

A major power outage in San Diego is being attributed to a severed power line in Arizona, and currently all 1.4 million San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) customers are in the dark. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Commission has had it with the City of Los Angeles' current red light camera program, and today they said "no" to proposal to keep them up and running. At this point, the only way the city can keep them running is if "the City Council opts to strip the commission of its authority on the issue," explains L.A. Now. more ›

In July of last year, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction barring Arizona police from enforcing part of a highly controversial law that purported to deal with illegal immigration. The law, which was protested widely both in Arizona and in California, gave police unprecedented freedom to arrest Arizona residents who they believe may be undocumented. Many who protested feared that the law would encourage racial profiling and discrimination. more ›

The city's red light cameras will keep clicking in our intersections for the next three months, as the Los Angeles Police Commission approved an extension for the expiring contract with their vendor last night, according to the Daily News. At issue, however, remains a resolution to the "conflicting reports" offered up about the red light camera program's impact on drivers' safety and behavior. more ›

Forget mules, or clever vehicle stashes! Marijuana smugglers have turned to a catapult to get drugs from Mexico into the US. A 3-yard tall catapult was found "about 20 meters (20 yards) from the U.S. border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle," in Mexico south of Arizona, and surveillance video shows people lobbing packages across the International Border fence, reports the AP. "The catapult was capable of launching 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of marijuana at a time," said a Mexican army officer. 35 pounds of pot, the SUV, and the catapult were seized by soldiers, but the smugglers got away. more ›

At 8:00 a.m. West Coast time, President Obama will lead the nation in a moment of silence to mark a shared grief and support for the victims of this weekend's shooting in Arizona, according to the LA Times. The shooting rampage of suspect Jared Lee Loughner has left six people dead and another 14 injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). more ›

Did you forget that we were boycotting businesses in Arizona? The Los Angeles City Council, who implemented the ban on doing business with the neighboring state because of their controversial immigration law, SB 1070, hasn't forgotten, though they have made yet another exemption in a series in order to keep certain services and goods in L.A. more ›

Sprouts Farmers Markets are opening in California at a time that is both fortuitous and a bit dubious. The chain of warehouse-style markets proffering locally-sourced produce and other health and eco-conscious oriented groceries is taking advantage of business failures--Circuit City, Linens 'n Things, Mervyns--for their retail spaces, but the company itself hails from Arizona. more ›

Despite following in the footsteps of Los Angeles and other cities by boycotting doing business with Arizona, Santa Monica officials tonight will be faced with possibly breaking their own rules. An Arizona company's bid to replace 20 "manufactured homes" at the city-owned Mountain View Mobile Home Park, which is part of Santa Monica's affordable housing program, is the best deal according to a staff report. more ›

Shortly before 1:30 this afternoon, LAPD Commander Andrew Smith sounded the siren of a squad car and got on the loudspeaker to declare the protest at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Highland Avenue an unlawful assembly. more ›

Traffic has come to a halt around Wilshire and Highland as a protest about Arizona's immigration law, which goes into effect today, becomes more out of control. Initial reports indicated some 30 to 40 protestors were lying in the street, according to Weho Daily, which monitors police broadcasts, but a further report by the LA Times says about 200 people laid down in the street. 14 people who chained themselves on a downtown street were arrested in a similar type of protest in May. more ›

Arizona's controversial immigration law SB 1070 takes effect Thursday, but an Associated Press investigation has revealed that one county in the state has already performed tens of thousands of deportations. Under a federal program that deputizes local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputies have deported over 26,000 immigrants. Of the 64 agencies that participate in the program, Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and policed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has the highest number -- nearly a quarter -- of deportations. more ›

A contract extension with a Scottsdale-based airport shuttle service was unanimously approved by the Los Angeles City Council this morning, but the approval of the usually benign item was not without controversy. Earlier this year the city boycotted doing business with Arizona-based companies in protest of SB 1070, the stringent immigration bill set to become law this week. more ›

With Arizona's controversial SB 1070 law set to become law next week Friday, the city of Los Angeles today approved a resolution declaring August as Immigrant Pride Month. The city of Los Angeles is made up of 1.6 million -- that's 40% of the population -- immigrants, according to the proposal's authors, Councilmembers Ed Reyes and Jose Huizar. more ›

The Republican candidate for Governor of California is reaching out to Latino voters via Spanish-language radio commercials and billboards, including one that reads "No a la Proposici n 187 y no a la ley de Arizona," which translates to a pair of No's about our neighbor-state's new anti-illegal immigration law, reports the San Bernardino Sun. more ›

Looks like the federal government, like Los Angeles and various other cities, is not thrilled about SB 1070, the controversial Arizona immigration law that's set to take effect later this month. more ›

If you thought it was ridiculous for Los Angeles to enact a boycott, the trend is spreading to larger entities -- like the whole state of California. State Senator Gil Sedillo's resolution has the backing of 44 other legislators, but it doesn't have much teeth. If Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 113 is approved, it would urge -- not force -- state departments to end ties with Arizona companies and recommends to stop travel to the state, according to the Press Telegram. more ›

Los Angeles will not turn off red light enforcement cameras at 32 intersections this summer. The City Council this morning unanimously voted to extend a contract with Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions for 10 months. When the issue comes up again next year, the Council will have to decide to either keep ATS, find a new vendor -- either based in Arizona or not -- or scrap the program altogether. more ›

This is really becoming a trend. Following in the footsteps of LAUSD, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education is the latest to approve a boycott of Arizona over their controversial immigration law, banning official travel and to the state and stopping any contracts with businesses based there. Meanwhile, two Riverside County and one Orange County cities have approved resolutions in support of Arizona's law. Hemet and Lake Elsinore both approved them on Tuesday and Yorba Linda earlier this month. Next? more ›

There may be a boycott on doing business with Arizona, but the L.A. City Council appears posted to likely approve a 10-month contract extension with a company located there for enforcement of intersections with red light cameras, according to the LA Times. more ›

Every year the LAPD attends the Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA) Conference, which happens to be in Arizona this year. As such, the helicopter-heavy department had to go through some hoops this time around because the L.A. City Council voted to approve a boycott of the state, which included official travel, over its recent immigration law. more ›

When the L.A. City Council boycotted Arizona a month ago -- a move to protest the state's immigration law -- a provision in it banned official travel to there unless not going would do more harm than going. Tomorrow, the Council will consider what appears to be the first request to gain authorization for travel to Arizona. more ›

If people don't like the Los Angeles City Council "meddling in the affairs of another state,” then too bad -- because they did it again. Today the Council voted to file an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging SB 1070, which requires "police to demand 'papers' from people they stop whom they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S.," according to the motion authored by Council President Eric Garcetti. more ›