Seven children and an elderly man have been hospitalized with minor injuries after a school bus and the man's vehicle collided in Palm Springs.

The California Highway Patrol has closed a major freeway connector in San Diego after about 200 gallons of paint spilled off a truck.

Members of a Pittsburg church are suing their pastor and his appointed leaders, saying they improperly spent church money and refused to follow bylaws.

Three more vehicles have been torched in an area of Contra Costa County that has already seen 11 vehicles go up in flames.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

A trucker died Monday after his big-rig plummeted 200 feet from a new section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that has seen more than 42 crashes since it opened, authorities said.

Authorities say a suspicious object outside an East Los Angeles courthouse was removed by a bomb squad robot and investigators have determined it wasn't an explosive.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have canceled February appearances in Los Angeles and New York because a promoter wrongly billed it as a debate.

The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.

Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.

Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails.

The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project.

A freight train derailment near Union Station in downtown Los Angeles has delayed several commuter trains but no injuries or damage are reported.

A trucker is dead after his big-rig plummeted 200 feet off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early Monday.

A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.

A senior Iranian prosecutor says three Americans detained on the border with Iraq have been accused of espionage.

The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Monday over whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at the victims.

It was the roll of a lifetime.

Investigators are trying to determine whether a man arrested over the weekend for a Southern California killing may be linked to two other slayings.

Authorities say a car chase in Pomona led to the arrest of a 32-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a 25-year-old man.

Authorities say the three men killed in a fiery helicopter crash in San Bernardino County were headed for an air show - one of the few places their vintage aircraft was allowed to fly.

San Jose officials are expected to take another step to improve the environment by restricting the use of plastic foam at public events.

Authorities in Marin County have been busy lately looking for lost hikers.

Authorities say four men have been arrested after being found sleeping in a Pomona garage stacked with stolen property.

The average price of regular gasoline in the United States has jumped 2.86 cents over a two-week period to $2.68.

Seven suspected gang members are facing charges in connection with an attempted kidnapping and assault last month at a Northern California casino.

Starting this week, homeless people in Laguna Beach will be told to park their cars, campers and sleeping gear in a designated area away from the beach.

Authorities are looking for suspects after an early morning shooting in North Richmond that left a 59-year-old man dead and his son wounded.

Seven homeless Boise residents are suing the city and the police department, saying that rules against camping in public spaces amount to cruel and unusual punishment in a city where homeless shelters are overflowing.

The Alameda County judge who presided over the high profile UC Berkeley tree-sitter standoff has died.

Marine biologists believe they have found the culprit in attacks on porpoises off the California coast: dolphins.

Here are the winning numbers picked Sunday night for the California Lottery's seven-times-a-week Fantasy 5 game: 01, 11, 12, 24, 35.

Here are the winning horses picked Sunday night for the California Lottery's Daily Derby game:

Authorities say a bomb squad was called after a live hand grenade was brought to a "Gifts for Guns" exchange in Inglewood.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at the victims.

The San Mateo County Coroner's office has conducted an autopsy to determine how a Palo Alto man, whose body was found decomposing in a covered public swimming pool, died.

Authorities say a man found floating in Newport Harbor has been pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Zenyatta pawed the ground with her right front hoof and pranced past an adoring crowd jamming the grandstand as she made her way to the start of the Breeders' Cup Classic.

In less than a week, unionized workers at two Arizona grocery store chains may be walking a picket line instead of stocking shelves and cutting meat.

Authorities say three people are dead after a vintage helicopter hit power lines, crashed and caught fire in San Bernardino County.

Three men from Sacramento County have been arrested for kidnapping a woman at an Indian casino in Shingle Springs.

Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents have seized more than $300,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine in southern Orange County and a Mexican national is under arrest on suspicion of smuggling.

Police say a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who investigators believe shot his teenage girlfriend has died at a hospital after shooting himself in the chest.

A 36-year-old woman has died after she was struck several times while retrieving boxes on a Sacramento freeway.

An $11.1 billion water bond approved this week by California lawmakers is filled with special interest earmarks that reward legislative districts in nearly every corner of the state, from $20 million for economic development in a rural northern county to $10 million to a University of California climate change institute.

Biologists studying salmon in the Pacific Northwest have for decades lost track of the fish just as they set out on life's last leg, that final upstream lunge to spawn and die in the remote, backcountry streams and creeks in Oregon, Washington and central Idaho.

Two people have been hit and killed by commuter trains in two unrelated incidents in San Jose and Redwood City.

As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.