Inglewood voters elected Mayor James T. Butts to a third term Tuesday, handing the incumbent victory over a local clergyman who had the financial backing of an entertainment conglomerate and some prominent celebrities. Butts received 63% of votes to Marc Little’s 18%, according to official election…
After butting heads for two years with the Anaheim City Council, Walt Disney Co. appears to have won a favorable majority on the panel as candidates backed by the media giant were well ahead in a wide field of hopefuls. Three City Council candidates, including the mayor, who received campaign support…
Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa and Steve Knight of Palmdale were both losing their seats in Congress in preliminary election returns Wednesday morning while two other GOP incumbents in California held narrow leads that they might sustain. All of California’s hardest-fought congressional…
Anaheim plans to pay $4.9 million to buy an industrial building on La Palma Avenue across from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center to operate as a homeless shelter. The nonprofit Illumination Foundation is expected to operate the shelter. The site, at 3431 E. La Palma Ave., will join a planned homeless shelter on Lewis Street…
On a chilly restaurant patio in beautiful downtown Burbank, Democrat Adam Schiff stepped into the room to the warm applause and the hugs of about 100 supporters. It was 8:16 p.m., and his party had just won back control of the House of Representatives. The mood in the room, happy satisfaction,…
For years, black and Latino residents in the Antelope Valley complained they were the victims of racially biased stops and searches along with other mistreatment by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. The U.S. Department of Justice analyzed Sheriff’s Department data from tens of thousands of…
Incumbents Shelley Hasselbrink and Warren Kusumoto, along with challengers Mark Chirco and Dean Grose held leads into Wednesday morning for four open seats on the Los Alamitos City Council. For complete election coverage, go to ocregister.com/election-results.
A hard-fought and controversial campaign to expand rent control in California, home to some of the priciest housing markets in the nation, was defeated Tuesday night. Proposition 10, the measure to broaden rent control’s reach by repealing a state law restricting its use, trailed throughout the night as it was soundly rejected by the state’s…
Orange voters are mostly sticking with who they know in this year’s election for the city’s mayor and council members. In the race for mayor, Mark Murphy is well ahead of Doug Vogel and John Russo in early voting results. Murphy, a current councilman, had served as mayor from 2000 to 2006. He was also…
Mayor David John Shawver held a strong lead Tuesday night in Stanton’s first mayoral election, leading Councilman Brian Donahue and Israel Hilario-Perez. In the city’s first district election, Gary Taylor was out in front over Loreen Berlin, Romona M. Macias and James Michael Scott for the District 3 seat; and Mayor Pro Tem Rigoberto A….
