Former U.S. bailout chief Neel Kashkari has won the Republican primary in the race for California governor. Voters should carefully consider the high school yearbook pages of all candidates when making their final decisions.

Marchell Mitchell, an Oakland High School security guard, is facing felony charges for child abuse after reportedly attacking a student in a wheelchair who refused to move quickly when urged to class for running late.

The video made by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger proclaiming his motives for allegedly killing six and leaving seven injured near UCSB's campus yesterday, has already been taken down, but the remainder of his bizarre and troubling confessional YouTube "vlogs" have been left up.

A THC-based "syzurp" is reportedly now for sale in California. In other words, if you're keeping score: One real recreational drug, legalized for sale as a medical product, is now being used to make a fake bootleg version of a different medical drug that's widely used for recreational purposes.

A wildfire approaches San Marcos, Calif. homes on Wednesday. Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season. Image via AP.

At least half a dozen raging wildfires spread through San Diego county today in what one observer is calling "a scene from Armageddon."

Neel Kashkari is currently a Republican candidate for governor of California, endorsed by Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. In 2008, he was the Treasury Department official in charge of bailing out the banks, and we ran his high school yearbook page.

Earlier this week, Texas governor Rick Perry gloated that his "pro-business" policies allowed his state to steal 3,000 Toyota jobs from California. If true, that would be terrible public policy. But it now appears it's not true, which is even worse.

A bill to encourage California schools to teach students about the racial significance of Barack Obama's presidency is headed to the state Senate after passing the Assembly with unanimous bipartisan support on Thursday.

A San Diego woman who was outbid on her dream home faces felony charges for pulling a series of insane "pranks" against the home's new owner, including inciting rape, listing the victim's home for sale, and advertising high school parties at the house.

An annual party in a Southern California college town turned into a riot when members of the 15,000-person crowd began throwing bricks at police officers, lighting fires, and apparently stabbing each other.

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake blew Los Angeles' high last night, striking at 9:09pm local time for about 30 seconds, with at least five aftershocks ranging 2.7-3.6. Authorities across all affected counties have confirmed gas leaks, water main breaks, and a rock slide near the earthquake epicenter around Brea in Orange County, California, just 20 miles south of L.A.

What are you doing with your April vacation, Yosemite High students? Beach reading? Killing some brain cells? That's nice. Your veteran science teacher, the former Army officer, plans to finalize her gender transition and return to the classroom as her "authentic self."

In other California canine news, officials aren't fooled by the "SERVICE DOG" vest on your labradoodle.

California governor Jerry Brown is harshing on Colorado and Washington's multimillion dollar mellow.

Eating breakfast on a wharf overlooking the Pacific Ocean is probably amazing unless a huge wave literally crashes through the restaurant you're in, soaking you completely and washing your breakfast away.

Walking is the only pleasant form of traveling by land. You need no special equipment, training, money, e-tickets, antidepressants, or Twitter followers. Whatever clothes you're wearing will do fine; a hat and shoes are optional. When I've got a few days to spend somewhere, I spend them walking around. So I spent a few days walking around Silicon Valley.

[A pedestrian blocks the heavy winds with her umbrella in Los Angeles on Friday. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. Image via Damian Dovarganes/AP.]

No disrespect to people in foreign countries, but they are approximately the world's biggest suckers, when it comes to believing things about America. No, all Americans are not cowboys; we don't all own guns, and work at Disney Land; and we certainly don't make any good wine.

A Southern California man was beaten, Tasered and burned by local cops who thought he was threatening them and didn't realize he was gesturing that he was deaf, according to a discrimination lawsuit he's filed in federal court.