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KRDO By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California official says the state’s landmark law mandating women be placed on corporate boards is toothless and there are no plans to fine companies for not complying. A chief in the Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday that the law requiring publicly held corporations based in California to appoint up to three women to their b...

California Women on Boards (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) A California official defending the state’s landmark law that mandates women be placed on corporate boards testified Thursday that it was essentially toothless and there are no plans to penalize companies for not complying. Under the 2018 law, publicly held corporations based in California have to appoint up...

FILE - Then-California Gov. Jerry Brown talks during an interview in Sacramento, Calif., on Dec. 18, 2018. When former Gov. Brown signed the nation's first law requiring that women sit on corporate boards of publicly traded companies, he suggested it might not survive legal challenges. Three years later, a judge will begin hearing evidence on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Los Angeles Superior C...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California official defending the state’s landmark law that mandates women be placed on corporate boards testified Thursday that it was essentially toothless and there are no plans to penalize companies for not complying. Under the 2018 law, publicly held corporations based in California have to appoint up to three women to their boards of directors by January and could f...

The first season of Law & Order: Organized Crime was all about Elliot Stabler’s efforts to get enough evidence to nail Richard Wheatley for the murder of his wife, and now the trial is nearly here to determine whether or not he’ll go down for Kathy’s death. There seems to be plenty of evidence that he’s guilty, but there’s no guarantee that the slippery Richard Wheatley hasn’t used his ti...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a $75.2 million contract with three law enforcement agencies to continue policing its subway lines, buses and trollies. The contract gives additional funds to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles and Long Beach police departments to police their Metro areas for the next six months, from January to June. The boa...

Loveland Police Department calls Wednesday Noon. Death investigation, 900 block Heather Drive. Loveland Police have confirmed the death is not suspicious. 2 p.m. Suspected drunken driver, North Lincoln Avenue and East 20th Street. 2 p.m. Noninjury vehicle crash, 1400 block West Eisenhower Boulevard. 2 p.m. Restraining order violation, 2400 block Silver Fir Avenue. 3 p.m. Noninjury vehicle cr...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A more restrictive law designed to keep “critical race theory” out of Texas public schools became law on Thursday. Under the new law, a “teacher may not be compelled to discuss a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs.” The law doesn’t defin...

Credit: John Chapin When asked what he wanted to be remembered for, longtime Harvard Law Professor and former Watergate prosecutor Philip B. Heymann ’60 replied: “Speaking truth to power.” For Heymann, who died Nov. 30 at his home in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke, that principle would define a life of scholarship, teaching, and public service that would take him back and forth fr...

Jenny Durkan signed off on her final budget as mayor Thursday, adopting the council's $7.1 billion funding package. The budget includes nearly $200 million for affordable housing efforts. (Getty Images) SEATTLE — Mayor Jenny Durkan signed the final version of Seattle's 2022 budget into law on Thursday, including hundreds of millions in affordable housing efforts and homeless services funded ...