LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A statue of Saint Junipero Serra must return to the Loyola Marymount University campus, an alumni group has said in a letter and petition to the president of the Los Angeles-area ...

Watch the inaugural episode of ‘In Search of America’s Catholic Founders’ this weekend. Above is a look at Bernadette Carstensen’s painting from ‘In Search of America’s Catholic Founders.’ (photo: ...

En el Capitolio de Estados Unidos, cada estado puede enviar dos estatuas para conmemorar a figuras significativas de ese estado. California está representada actualmente por el presidente Ronald ...

Extending a cultural fight that started years ago, Caltrans has quietly demolished a statue of 18th-century missionary and Catholic saint Junipero Serra that had overlooked Interstate 280 in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant statue of Saint Junipero Serra towered over I-280 in Hillsborough for five decades. Without any big announcements, ...

A California sculpture almost 3,000 miles away from home stood for nearly a century without much public controversy — until now. Statues of Father Junipero Serra were largely uncontroversial until ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KGO) -- The Marin County District Attorney has filed felony vandalism charges against people who allegedly damaged and tore down the St. Junipero Serra statue at Mission San Rafael ...

From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down? By Laila Lalami The fire broke out one day after $200,000 in ...

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors has launched a web page inviting residents to vote on potential redesigns of the county seal. Residents may go to ventura.org ...