Gov. Jerry Brown has signed compromise legislation that allows school districts to preserve transportation funding after parents and advocates complained about losing school bus services.

Information provided by a California death row inmate who was one of the two notorious "Speed Freak Killers" led to the discovery Friday of a second set of human remains, this time believed to belong to a 16-year-old girl who went missing nearly three decades ago.

Authorities have arrested an Orange County sheriff's deputy on suspicion of engaging in sexual activity with an inmate.

A 15-year-old boy plunged to his death from a suburban Los Angeles school building Friday in what may have been a suicide, authorities said.

Attorneys for the journalists' group that organizes the Golden Globe Awards and its longtime producers offered a federal judge dueling versions of what a disputed $150 million broadcast deal means to each side.

Don Cornelius was cremated at a private service attended by family and family who were led in prayer by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the "Soul Train" founder's family announced Friday.

Searchers using information provided by a convicted California serial killer have recovered the remains Friday of a second person thought to be a victim of the "Speed Freak Killers."

A judge has reinstated the prison term of a former Monterey County social worker convicted of stealing nearly $150,000 from county welfare clients.

New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution.

DNA taken from the mouth of a former police detective so closely matched saliva from a bite mark on the arm of a murdered woman that no one else could have produced that genetic similarity, a criminalist told jurors Friday.

An endangered butterfly population in a preserve near Los Angeles International Airport grew about 8 percent last year, inching closer to a comeback.

A Stanislaus County judge has ordered a Modesto man to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy with Down syndrome.

An ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear plant in November was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it, federal regulators said Friday.

A veteran San Diego police officer was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for on-duty sexual battery and other crimes that were part of an embarrassing string of officer misconduct incidents that prompted major reforms in the department protecting the nation's eighth-largest city.

A federal appeals court's decision to delay the deportation of seven illegal immigrants until the Obama administration re-evaluates their cases could encourage thousands of other illegal immigrants to seek similar rulings and could open the door to uncomfortable questions about the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S, experts said.

Will.i.am said he hoped to raise $1 million for his charity that benefits needy students at a concert Thursday night. Instead, he raised $5 million.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Republicans challenging California's newly drawn congressional maps, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission announced Friday in its latest court victory.

The government could lose nearly $3 billion on Energy Department loans for green energy programs - far less than the $10 billion Congress set aside for the high-risk program, according to an independent review.

Occupy Cal protesters are back on the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol.

Former San Diego Union-Tribune publisher Ed Moss has been named president and chief executive officer of The Denver Post.

Eight school district employees were placed on leave during an investigation of their handling of allegations that a special education teacher kicked and slapped students.

Authorities have pulled a car out of the surf on San Francisco's Ocean Beach after a woman apparently drove it into the water.

A federal judge in Delaware has ordered a former DuPont Co. engineer charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from the company released on bond.

Authorities say an Orange County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a Marine in a high school parking lot was concerned about the safety of the man's children.

A missing, mentally challenged teenager was rescued and a woman was charged with false imprisonment after she befriended the girl and taunted her mother with text messages giving phony information on the girl's whereabouts, investigators said.

The former third-grade teacher who has been charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.

In a meeting room at a Spenard hotel this weekend, Alaskans seeking a medical marijuana card can line up to see a Los Angeles ophthalmologist in town to evaluate their medical need for pot - at $225 a "patient."

Investigators say a missing mentally challenged teenager has been rescued after a Southern California woman befriended the girl and taunted her mother with cellphone texts.

A suspected drunken driver has crashed a pickup truck into a San Diego County condominium, injuring the driver and a father and daughter at the home.

Norma Merrick Sklarek, the nation's first female African American licensed architect, has died in Los Angeles at 85.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit Agency has agreed to look into the possibility of extending train service about 5 miles to Livermore.

A former Southern California high school coach has been charged with having an ongoing sexual relationship with a student that started when she was 14 years old.

The City of San Francisco is honoring legendary crooner Tony Bennett, whose famous song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was recorded 50 years ago.

A fugitive has been captured in Mexico and is now facing a murder trial in Southern California on charges he deliberately ran down a man with his car following an argument more than two years ago.

The owner of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and have the company's name removed from the Academy Awards venue.

Firefighters have found an unconscious woman in the converted attic of a burning Los Angeles home.

A Richmond woman is facing charges that she fatally stabbed her husband's girlfriend.

Prosecutors say a Northern California businessman used more than 20,000 credit cards to process nearly $1 million in fraudulent charges.

The owner of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre is challenging bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.'s effort to end its sponsorship agreement and have the company's name removed from the Academy Awards venue.

Northern California school district employees have been placed on leave during an investigation into the handling of allegations an elementary school special education teacher kicked and slapped students.

A Dallas businessman has been sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison over a $7 million investment scam.

Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.

Granada Hills High School has won the Los Angeles Unified School District Academic Decathlon for the second straight year.

Authorities say a medical assistant at an Orange County hospital has been arrested for investigation of sexually assaulting a patient.

A 21-year-old Santa Rosa man who accosted a pregnant woman while she was pushing her toddler in a stroller has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

A top county official held a news conference Thursday night to set the record straight on an issue of paramount importance to Los Angeles: beach football.

A man who state and local officials say is running a massive illegal gold-mining operation in California's Sierra Nevada surrendered Thursday to face 14 criminal charges of operating without permits and polluting a creek.

A federal grand jury in Fresno has indicted a second-grade teacher accused of molesting a student and recording the abuse on four counts of producing child pornography.