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NASA’s twin spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing their New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. Named Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), the spacecraft are scheduled to be placed in orbit beginning at 1:21 p.m. PST for GRAIL-A on Dec. 31, and 2:05 p.m. PST ...

In what city officials are calling the “worst case scenario,” the California Supreme Court ruled today that Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies as a way to deal with the state’s fiscal crisis will stand and struck down an alternative proposal, which would have allowed redevelopment agencies to make payments into funds that benefited schools and special districts ...

By Leon Worden and Carol Rock The U.S. Postal Service held a public meeting last night in Bakersfield to discuss the prospective closure of Bakersfield’s mail processing facility. This move would have an impact on our community because the workload – as well as some of the jobs – would shift to the Santa Clarita processing facility on Franklin Parkway ...

by Leon Worden/SCVNEWS.com Los Angeles County and USDA Forest Service fire fighters made quick work of a brush fire that broke out shortly before noon Thursday in the mountains above Santa Clarita. The fire was located in a remote area north of Pyramid Lake and east of Interstate 5. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking news alerts delivered right to ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies will be out in force to track down and arrest anyone who fires a gun into the air or sets off illegal fireworks while celebrating New Year’s Eve. At a news conference this morning, Sheriff Lee Baca (pictured), country District Attorney Steve Cooley and city of Los Angeles officials announced they have launched a campaign ...

In 2012, Californians will see a host of new laws and regulations go into effect – from increasing the age of children requiring booster seats in cars to prohibiting the sale of live animals on street corners or parking lots to internet bullying and eliminating the “open carry” of handguns – starting Sunday. In 2011, all 50 states and territories ...

We do it every year; we make a resolution and then we fail and we wait until the new year to try it again.  Statistics show that 40 to 45 percent of American adults make one or more resolutions each year and almost 30 percent of those have given up after two weeks.  USA.gov reports that the top resolutions are ...

By Josh Levs, CNN New laws going into effect Sunday cover some of the nation’s most contentious issues, from immigration to abortion, while others deal with tanning beds, tuition and where you can sell a pet. In all, nearly 40,000 laws were enacted in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Some take effect New Year’s Day. The ...

By David Ariosto, CNN New York — The U.S. population is expected to top out at close to 312.8 million people just around the time crowds gather to watch the ball drop in Manhattan’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, according to new census data released Thursday. The figure represents a 0.7% increase from last year, adding 2,250,129 people to ...

By Doug Gross, CNN Can’t win ’em all, can you? The highs were pretty high in the tech world in 2011, as new gadgets, updates and advances delighted the masses. I mean, Facebook made a change that most people (so far) seemed to actually like. What are the odds? But the lows were lower. For every moment of digital bliss, ...