The ads are paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative and feature Osama bin Laden, the Times Square car bomber and the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings.

The mortuary has offered to exhume the body and pay all expenses for both families to have proper funeral services.

A Camp Pendleton Marine corporal has pleaded not guilty to killing a man whose body was found in an SUV.

Police are investigating allegations that a former teacher at a Pleasanton preschool tied up a 2-year-old girl for refusing to take her nap, then later showed the photos to other teachers.

The mayor of Oxnard, who is a schoolteacher by day, is the subject of a sheriff's investigation after a mother alleged that he battered her daughter in a classroom dispute.

Police have arrested a 22-year-old Contra Costa County man on suspicion of killing his father, who had previously filed a restraining order against his son.

A person has been struck and killed by a Sacramento Regional Transit light rail train while walking a bike across the tracks in Rancho Cordova.

Investigators are trying to determine how a man who was found crushed to death by an elevator at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco managed to get into the elevator shaft.

An earthquake has shaken a wide swath of Southern California but there's no word of any damage.

Family members whose loved ones died as a result of prescription drug overdoses will be among those calling for change as lawmakers consider whether to reauthorize the state medical board.

A Nevada County, California, man is accused of trying to poison his girlfriend with Visine.

A California man has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for beating two women at a Lake Tahoe casino so severely that one victim suffered a miscarriage.

Whale watchers are reporting this season's first pod of killer whales after at least 15 orcas were spotted just outside Newport Beach Harbor.

A California animal sanctuary has reopened to the public less than a week after an African lion killed a 24-year-old intern.

Gay rights activists are protesting a Northern California mall where a same-sex couple says they were ejected for kissing.

The San Francisco 49ers have already sold three-quarters of the seats at its new Silicon Valley stadium, thanks in part to the team's Super Bowl run.

Nicholas Broms was trying to squeeze a better high from marijuana when his Oregon condo caught on fire. An explosion knocked out a wall, blew out his sliding glass door and torched his arms.

A federal magistrate has ruled that a California prisoner serving life without parole for a triple murder should be freed because his lawyer provided in incompetent representation at his trial.

A sailor died and five others were rescued after abandoning a racing boat that lost its steering capability and drifted to an island off Southern California, where it was broken apart by crashing waves.

Service on a 22-mile rail system in northern San Diego County has been suspended so mechanics can replace worn brake rotors on its 12 trains.

A former Chula Vista firefighter has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape, taking nude pictures of his sedated fiancée and other sex charges.

California officials are searching for new homes for three dozen Chihuahuas that were seized from two residences.

A former Vallejo special-education teacher has been found guilty of raping and impregnating his developmentally disabled student aide.

The California Supreme Court has overturned a first-degree murder conviction for a man who caused a deadly crash when a stolen stove fell from his truck.

Jurors in the public corruption trial of six former officials in the suburban city of Bell have gone home for the weekend without reaching a verdict.