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Relatives and Santa Cruz County coroner's officials say the pilot who died in the crash of his small experimental plane near Watsonville was a 58-year-old lawyer from Atherton.
A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.
San Francisco's historic cable cars resumed service on Powell Street Sunday morning after the line was closed when one of its cars came to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown.
Authorities say a transit police officer was hurt and a suspect is in custody after an incident at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Saturday evening.
The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:
Jimmie Johnson was chasing much more than a championship.
Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday.
The average price of regular gasoline in the United States has dropped 3.64 cents over a two-week period to $2.65.
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Calabasas may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads.
NBA star O.J. Mayo has donated 500 turkeys and 500 hams so 1,000 Huntington area families could have a better Thanksgiving.
Redwood City police have arrested six students after a 16-year-old student was beaten on the campus of Sequoia High School last week.
Authorities say an off-duty federal agent shot and wounded an armed man who broke into his San Diego County home and tried to steal his truck.
An oil boom is underway in the state's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market.
In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.
Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive.
Investigators are hoping any possible tipsters will come forward after a fatal shooting near a light-rail station in Rancho Cordova.
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled the Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.
Keeping food cold in open store display cases is an ongoing challenge for designers.
Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.
Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.
A man is under arrest who authorities say stole a delivery truck, rammed it into a Los Angeles County sheriff's cruiser spurring a deputy to fire shots, then crashed the truck into a metal railroad barrier.
Animal control officers took custody of two dozen animals including four emaciated horses and found three pigs they believe starved to death at a home in Riverside County.
The pilot of a small airplane is dead after crashing the aircraft into an apple orchard.
A paralyzed University of California law student has passed the bar exam after a legal battle to take the test.
San Francisco's historic cable cars resumed service on Powell Street Sunday morning after the line was closed when one of its cars came to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown.
The mysterious death in 1975 of Karen Rose Robinson is a mystery no more.
Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
An Alabama couple following directions from a GPS device got stuck and were rescued from the snowy, mountainous back road where a San Francisco man got lost and died in 2006, authorities say.
California game wardens have arrested a Sacramento fisherman in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.
Authorities say a Santa Monica police officer was injured when his motorcycle crashed into the back of a truck he was attempting to pull over on Pacific Coast Highway.
Authorities say a broken Los Angeles County water main has caused flooding and created a sinkhole in an industrial area of Stevenson Ranch.
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has delayed plans for issuing bonds to pay for the expansion of death row at San Quentin State Prison.
The federal judge getting ready to decide whether the government is doing enough to save Columbia River salmon will have a question for its lawyers Monday: If you have plans in your hip pocket in case the fish numbers crash, why not put those plans to work now?
When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.
An Iraqi official says Baghdad has contacted Tehran in a bid to secure the release of three Americans detained in Iran, but has received no reply.
The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 - plus tax - on Saturday.
The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul will stand trial on accusations that he crushed his ex-girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a San Diego County man with securities fraud, saying he targeted Somali immigrants in San Diego and Seattle.
A Sacramento police officer has been arrested on suspicion of abusing his girlfriend.
Federal prosecutors on Friday said they would not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.
Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.
A Princess Cruises crew member has been acquitted of the sexual assault of a female passenger.
Former state Assemblyman Nao Takasugi (NAH'-oh tah-kah-SOO'-gee), who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87.
Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.
The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul accused of crushing his girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat will stand trial in her death.
Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in Santa Cruz County to help communities affected by storms that battered the area in October.
The 27-year-old son of a veteran Los Angeles police officer has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and the officer is facing similar charges.