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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted 5-1 for the legislation after more than three hours of testimony. Hundreds of people rallied at the Capitol in opposition.
Hundreds of people who protested outside the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco are calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for his country's treatment of people from other Asian countries during World War II
Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing $10,000 fines for residents and businesses wasting water in the drought despite his order to cut water use.
A popular mud run in Southern California has been canceled because officials don't want to expend the water during the state's historic drought.
California regulators are revising the state's plan for saving water with mandatory water-use reduction targets across the state.
Bumble Bee Foods and two managers were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors Monday with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna.
A newspaper says a Northern California teenager has confessed to stabbing to death a 9-year-old boy.
A woman from China has been arrested for attempting to leave the U.S., where she is a material witness in a probe of so-called "maternity tourism."
The California Supreme Court has overturned a Redding man's death sentence.
A new lone wolf has been tracked into Central Oregon.
57 Los Angeles County Firefighters are bringing 6 search dogs, cameras, sonar and heavy cutting equipment.
A multi-billion dollar project to bring salmon back to a dried-up section of California's second-longest river is moving forward despite the state's historic drought.
The firebombing of a Southern California tire shop left three people dead and a firefighter injured on Saturday, authorities said.
Attorneys representing a transgender prison inmate want a judge to stand by his order that California officials must immediately provide the inmate with sex reassignment surgery that they say is urgent and critical to her health.
Randall Swanson admitted to sending an online threat to a Louisiana school the day after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
