JERRY BROWN

In 1977, Harvey Milk made history when he became the first openly gay man elected to public office. In a few years, California school children could be studying and learning about his life and accomplishments.

The media is abuzz with royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton's visit to North America, and it is following every step of their trip, not to mention keeping an eye on Kate's wardrobe.

Giant online retailer Amazon.com has ended its relationship with some 10,000 internet business partners while Overstock also severed a couple hundred business relationship in California, in order to avoid state taxes that Gov. Jerry Brown signed.

Amazon has ended affiliate relationships in California over a new state law requiring online retailers to collect sales tax there.

Amazon.com Inc warned its 10,000-plus California sales affiliates on Wednesday that it may be forced to sever ties with them should the state begin taxing their online sales.

At 89, she has power no less than a healthy young man's. In an amusing event, an 89-year-old woman caused dent to the car of two people who stole her friend's purse.

California passed its budget on time, something that is a rarity in the state, and on paper it closes a $9.6 billion deficit. But both Democrats and Republicans criticized the final outcome, whose deficit-ending dimension assumes that economic growth will accelerate.

California Governor Edmund G. Jerry Brown bypassed Senate Republicans and struck a budget deal with the Democratic majority Tuesday, abandoning sought-after tax extensions in favor of optimistic revenue projections.

California Governor Jerry Brown delivered a big blow to the Democrats by vetoing a budget plan approved by the Legislature which did not include his proposed tax extensions.

California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed the budget passed last night by Democratic legislature, setting up a potential standoff with his own party while challenging Republicans who obstructed his agenda.

California's Democratically controlled legislature passed a budget yesterday that eschews tax extensions favored by Governor Jerry Brown for funding measures that Republicans dismissed as gimmicks.

California legislators on Wednesday passed the main bill of a budget package that would rely on an Internet sales tax, spending cuts and fee hikes, and a host of rosy forecasts to close a $10 billion shortfall.

Democratic lawmakers in California trying to pass a state budget by a Wednesday deadline are considering forcing Internet retailers like Amazon.com to collect sales taxes, cuts at universities and one-time accounting moves to help close a deficit of about $10 billion.

California is at risk of violating the first court-ordered November to cut 10,000 inmates, but lawmakers must pass tax plan.

In order to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to slash its prison population, California officials announced Tuesday that they have a new plan. But according to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, how they will pay for the shift is still up in the air, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

California governor Jerry Brown is expected to redouble his emphasis on shifting inmates to county prisons in order to comply with a Supreme Court decision ordering the state to curtail its prison population.

In what is being billed as one of the biggest prison release orders in history, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered California government to reduce its prison population by nearly 33,000 over a period of two years to avoid serious constitutional violations.

Yesterday's Supreme Court verdict affirming that California must reduce its exploding prison population by over 30,000 inmates raises a pressing question: where will they go?

If current Governor Jerry Brown's bid for tax extensions is not passed in Sacramento, then California's prestieged UC students might find themselves paying upto 32% more in tuition starting in spring 2012.

Horseracing experts are beginning to make their predictions for the Preakness Stakes, scheduled for 6:16 p.m. tomorrow at Pimlico Race Course. Here are five picks and all the post positions and odds for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Seventy out of 278 parks will be closed down to save money for California State, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration announced on Friday.