43rd District

by Andrew Dalton

Authorities have asked the FBI to examine the remains of a bipolar California woman found in Malibu Canyon nearly a year after she disappeared when she was released from jail.

The Sheriff's Department plans to exhume the remains of Mitrice Richardson and send them to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., for examination along with clothing and hair found at the scene, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

by Susan Crabtree

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is capitalizing on ethics committee blunders to put the entire ethics process on trial and cast serious doubt about the case against her.

Waters's tactic stands in stark contrast to the way Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) handled the case against him. Waters has been on offense since an investigative subcommittee charged her with three ethics violations in July.