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Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world Wednesday, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes.
Two men are in jail after a wild high-speed chase that ended with one of them being shot with a taser gun while running across lanes of a busy North Texas highway.
California prosecutors charged a gang member with first-degree murder and other crimes Wednesday in the ambush shootings of two Palm Springs officers, saying he deliberately attacked them for no reason except to kill police.
wo California medical companies have been accused in a lawsuit of illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue.
If Bruce Bochy and the Giants want to turn back into the team we saw in the first half, the roster will need some help.
Travel website TripAdvisor will no longer sell bookings to attractions where travelers can come in contact with captive wild animals or endangered species.
A new report shows fewer Americans own a car with manual transmission, let alone know how to operate one. And there appear to be a number of reasons for it.
A man is behind bars, accused of assaulting two girls and punching a police officer in Roseville over the weekend.
A plan to put $750 million in public funds toward an NFL stadium in Las Vegas has passed the first of two major votes in the Nevada Legislature, with lawmakers saying they understood their votes might draw criticism but they want to bring more jobs to a beleaguered construction industry.
Authorities are investigating the death of a Los Angeles Police Department employee found shot in a Whittier home.
A new report shows fewer Americans own a car with manual transmission let alone know how to operate one. And there appear to be a number of reasons for it.
Stockton police are investigating a suspicious child death involving a two-year-old boy. The investigation began as a possible homicide in the Bay Area, but now investigators believe it originated in Stockton.
A singer from Berkeley took a knee while singing the national anthem at the Kings' preseason game at Golden 1 Center.
He's brought cool to the State Capitol, has been an advocate for education – and has even promoted fitness by sharing his downward facing dog to thousands of Twitter followers. But now, California's therapy-dog-in-chief needs a boost in health and spirits himself.
The head of a year-old Sacramento Community Police Commission has stepped down from his position.
