Mojave Desert parents wage legal fight against local district over school reform

Rescuers free entangled gray whale off coast

Political rift appears in state compensation panel that handles legislators’ compensation

Sacramento commuter rail collision injures 5

Brown defends tax plan, says money goes to schools despite claim of backer of rival plan

Beyonce the tiny puppy fit into spoon at birth

Economists see brighter future for state economy

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California's economy should improve with its nearly 11 percent unemployment rate falling to 7.7 percent in less than two years, according to UCLA's quarterly Anderson Forecast. However, some areas won't return to pre-recession levels for four years, according to the report. California's 10.9 percent jobless rate is expected to fall to about 7.7 percent ...

Pepper-spray report can be released without names

Dennis Rodman back in court over child support

ORANGE (AP) - Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been told he could face up to 20 days in jail unless he pays some $860,000 in child support. His lawyer, however, says Rodman has made payments and will fight to have the contempt of court finding overturned. Rodman appeared in an Orange County court Tuesday but sentencing ...

15-year-old Morgan Hill teen-age girl’s disappearance frustrates, unites community

Cop goes undercover to bust students in small SJ Valley town of Exeter

Bay Area briefs

Tree falls on home, traps trio for short time FAIRFAX (AP) - Northern California residents are cleaning up after a big storm that sent a massive oak tree toppling onto a Marin County home. The massive oak tree briefly trapped three people in the house in Fairfax on Tuesday evening, but they were able to get out uninjured. Neighbors ...

Civil rights passion motivates California tax proponent that Brown is opposing

LAPD defends handling of profiling claims

California nuke plant to remain shut for probe

Some are overlooked in overhaul

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border - and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the U.S. immigration system that would grant legal status to millions of people.

California weighs first state ban on lead ammo

SACRAMENTO (AP) - In November, one of the oldest condors in Central California died from lead poisoning after being found with tiny bullet fragments and a .22-caliber slug in his gullet that he apparently swallowed with a mouthful of meat.

Rolling Stones rock small LA club

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For one night only, the Rolling Stones were an up-and-coming band again.

OC officials keep inmate alive they want to ultimately execute

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A man charged with raping and killing a woman 30 years ago is being kept alive in Orange County with dialysis treatments until officials can win permission to execute him.

Bills aim to protect privacy in drone age

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California lawmakers are attempting to stay ahead of science fiction-style technology as increasingly nimble unmanned aircraft are considered for use in tracking fleeing suspects and monitoring crowded public spaces.

Arrest in shooting at Vallejo Little League game

Daycare owners arraigned in swaddling case

State declines to update campaign data online

Perry disgusted by explosion cartoon

First confirmed Japanese tsunami debris in Calif.

209 News

WILD DOG KILLED BY DEPUTIES: FRENCH CAMP - One of the dogs which may have killed dozens of goats at a French Camp livestock auction yard recently was killed Friday.