| California Senate prepares to vote on plan to end fiscal crisis
February 19, 2009 at 4:58 am
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| Aiming to end a three-month impasse, the California Senate prepared to vote early this morning on a deal Democrats and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached with a GOP holdout to resolve the state's fiscal emergency.
Reporting from Sacramento -- Aiming to end a three-month impasse, the California Senate prepared to vote early this morning on a deal Democrats and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached with a GOP holdout to resolve the state's fiscal emergency. 
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| Rash of televised police chases highlights costs, risks
February 19, 2009 at 3:00 am
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| Pursuits like last month's widely seen U-Haul truck chase spur calls for stricter penalties for those who flee officers and cause costly deployment of law enforcement resources.
Alisha Nicole Mankin was wanted for a misdemeanor when she fled a police stop last month in a stolen U-Haul truck and led police on a televised 90-mile chase along the region's busiest freeways at rush hour. 
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| Senate not likely to oust Sen. Roland Burris anytime soon
February 19, 2009 at 3:00 am
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|  The new senator from Illinois arrived under a cloud that has only grown -- but the Senate rarely expels its own members.
Though Roland Burris had some trouble being admitted to the U.S. Senate, he will not be easily expelled now that he has arrived. 
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| Facebook backtracks on change to terms of use after protests
February 19, 2009 at 3:00 am
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|  Thousands of members complained that the alteration meant the social network was claiming ownership of all photos and other material posted to the site.
Facebook Inc.'s latest capitulation to offended users offered another reminder of the social network's power for self-criticism. 
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| Suit accuses LAPD of violating its own safety policies
February 19, 2009 at 3:00 am
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| The union representing rank-and-file officers also claims that state employment rules were violated when commanders told them not to wear protective helmets at a protest march.
The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers filed a lawsuit against the department Wednesday, accusing it of violating its own policies and state employment safety rules when commanders allegedly told officers not to wear protective helmets during a Jan. 10 demonstration in Westwood. 
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| Gov. says lawmakers resisting budget plan have 'math problem'
February 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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| Schwarzenegger vows to stick with the bipartisan proposal, which includes $14.4 billion in tax increases. New Senate GOP leader Dennis Hollingsworth says he wants to scrap the bill.
Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said this afternoon that GOP lawmakers who insist that the budget could be balanced without new revenue "have a math problem" and that he would not abandon the bipartisan spending plan he helped negotiate, which includes $14.4 billion in tax increases. 
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| 'I didn't realize he had shot himself'
February 18, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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| A volunteer at the Crystal Cathedral recalls the moments leading up to a man's shooting at the Garden Grove church. Police are investigating his death as a suicide.
A man walked into the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove today, knelt down at the foot of a cross and fatally shot himself in the head. 
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| Report questions science, reliability of crime lab evidence
February 18, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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| The National Academy of Sciences says many courtroom claims about fingerprints, bite marks and other evidence lack scientific verification. It finds forensics inconsistent and in disarray nationwide.
For decades, forensic scientists have made sweeping claims in court about fingerprints, ballistics, handwriting, bite marks, shoe prints and blood splatters that lack empirical grounding and have never been verified by science. 
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| Obama unveils $75-billion mortgage relief plan
February 18, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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|  The president announces the Treasury Department plan in Mesa, Ariz. 'If we act boldly and swiftly to arrest this downward spiral, every American will benefit,' he says.
President Obama, announcing a $75-billion federal bailout for homeowners at risk of foreclosure or whose property values have tumbled, today turned the focus of the government's financial aid from Wall Street to Main Street. 
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| Clinton visits Indonesia, urges 'partnership'
February 18, 2009 at 11:19 am
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| Indonesia, President Obama's boyhood home, is seen as key to solving global problems. Clinton says the Obama administration will sign a treaty that Bush declined.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Indonesians today that she wanted to open a "robust partnership" with their fast-growing country, President Obama's boyhood home. 
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