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A California Highway Patrol investigation has found Caltrans did not retaliate against employees who raised concerns about construction defects on the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
A California pit bull owner whose dogs fatally mauled a woman has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
Rapper Too Short has been cited at a Southern California airport a day after fleeing a security checkpoint when a screener found a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage.
A 47-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he kidnapped a 15-year-old boy and girl in California and brought them to Reno in hopes the girl would engage in illegal sex.
Five people who allegedly stormed a residential marijuana garden near Redding and falsely identified themselves as federal drug agents have been arrested on charges of robbery and impersonating a peace officer.
Northern California family says new evidence shows brain activity in the 13-year-old girl.
Prosecutors said a federal Bureau of Land Management ranger gave Cole a warning for driving his truck on a closed dirt road near the South Yuba River campground. The ranger then found a makeshift campground with two motorcycles, one of them reported stolen and the other with expired tags.
The digital streaming site has signed a deal to exclusively finance and feature films from the popular comedian's production company.
Sex offenders Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon are accused of raping and killing four women while they were wearing GPS monitors from previous sex crimes, claim prosecutors.
State officials say that violent and property crimes dropped significantly across California last year.
Deputies in central California have arrested four people - one adult and three juveniles - who are suspected of breaking into a Foster Farms chicken ranch and killing more than 900 birds with a golf club.
U.S. bankruptcy law allows the California city of Stockton to cut pension benefits because it can treat its obligations to the public retirement fund like other debts, a federal judge said in a ruling that could help clarify who gets paid first by financially strapped cities around the nation - pension funds or creditors.
A Nevada inmate serving two life sentences in the 1989 killing of a California real estate agent has died in prison.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller says that investigators would like to hear from anyone who knows of a recently pregnant woman who gave birth without going to a hospital.
California's Catholic leadership has filed a federal civil rights complaint over a state requirement that health insurance cover abortions.
