In California, officials spent years deciding which agency should have oversight.Discounts are no substitute for health insurance, Department of Managed Healthcare Director Cindy Ehnes said at a news conference in Sacramento. Along the way, he also adopted Mahatma Gandhi’s doctrines of nonviolence. Each of the seven key actors works in a different mode, from belabored [...]

Hollywood’s annual guessing game — Who will host the Oscars? — has ended before it even started: Ellen DeGeneres will take the reins at next year’s 79th annual Academy Awards broadcast.Laura Ziskin, producer of the ceremony, made the announcement Thursday as DeGeneres, who will host the Oscars for the first time, was in the middle [...]

A spokesman for the main pharmaceutical trade group said recently that more details were needed on how the system would work. “With recidivism rates at 70%, the Youth Authority owes it to the public to do a better job.”The audit is the latest gloomy assessment of the CYA, which houses more than 3,200 convicts, ages [...]