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UC Berkeley students holed up in campus building

Associated Press - Updated: 3:06 pm

University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees have barricaded themselves in part of a campus building.

California, Sacramento County to probe in-home care

By Susan Ferriss - Published: 12:00 am

California teamed with Sacramento County officials Thursday to launch a first-in-the-state multi-agency task force to investigate fraud in In-Home Supportive Services.

U.S. agency ordered to provide same-sex benefits

By Denny Walsh - Published: 12:00 am

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thursday ordered the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to quit interfering with health care benefits for federal judicial employees just because they are married to a person of the same sex.

Top California officials' pay to be cut 18% in December

By Jim Sanders - Published: 12:00 am

Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Salaries of elected officials

The Buzz

Published: 12:00 am

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina must be sharing speechwriters, maybe someone from their tech pasts.

Newest state budget clash will be bloody

When Mac Taylor, the Legislature's chief budget adviser, declared this week that the state budget enacted just four months ago is already billions of dollars upside down, no one in the Capitol should have been surprised.

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Anti-tax recall effort against Assembly's Adams fails

Posted by Susan Ferriss at 3:16 PM

An anti-tax recall movement against Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, has failed to gather enough valid signatures to go to the ballot, the California Secretary of State's office announced Friday. The ...