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.

Federal authorities have cited a primate research center at the University of California, Davis in the deaths of 19 monkeys.

A 28-year-old former Marine has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to blow up an Oakland bank with a car bomb.

A doctor in Los Angeles has been arrested and charged with committing sexual battery on a patient during a medical exam for federal immigration authorities.

South Lake Tahoe Police need your help in finding the man who robbed a bank Thursday afternoon. The robbery happened on the El Dorado Savings Bank at 3443 Lake Tahoe Blvd at 2:06pm.

An SUV crashed into a Denny's restaurant in South Lake Tahoe just before 9:00 Friday morning.

Central California officials say the 24-year-old victim of a fatal lion attack died quickly of a broken neck.

The brother of the Seattle-area intern fatally mauled by a lion at a Central California exotic animal park says the family always wondered about the risks in her chosen line of work, but knew the dangers were a part of the profession.

The state Senate has approved a bill authorizing more money for a California program that seizes guns from people who are prohibited from having them.

A police officer indicted by a grand jury on allegations of sexually assaulting six women while on duty in West Sacramento has pleaded not guilty.

An 18-year-old Ventura County man accused of dousing his family's dog with lighter fluid and setting it on fire in a ravine near their home has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.

Bakersfield police say no criminal charges will be filed against anyone connected to an assisted-living home where a nurse refused a 911 dispatcher's pleas to perform CPR on a dying 87-year-old resident.

Authorities say a lion has killed someone at a private animal sanctuary in Central California.

San Diego County authorities say they arrested a man and seized nearly 50 roosters after discovering a cockfighting operation in the rural community of Rainbow.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says he'll join a think tank when his job ends this summer - and he'd also consider running for California governor someday.

As the family of a slain Red Bluff girl prepares for her memorial service, police have revealed that she was strangled to death.

Police say a standoff has ended after police arrested a robbery suspect who had barricaded himself inside a marijuana growing site in San Francisco.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to begin a pair of prescribed fire operations this week on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, weather permitting.

Richmond police are searching for burglars who broke into an officer's home, poisoned two of his dogs and stole several guns.

The company that operates a California elder care facility where a woman died after being denied CPR says the employee who refused to cooperate with a 911 dispatcher did not understand company policies.

The family of a California woman who died after a nurse at her independent living home refused to provide CPR says she chose to live in a facility without medical staff and wanted to pass away without life-prolonging intervention.

Homeless people and Californians who make less than $14,702 a year will be able to get free cell phones and service, thanks to a new statewide program that began this week as part of the federally funded Lifeline effort.

Crews have removed an 82-foot yacht from a Northern California beach after authorities say three people stole it, stocked it with pizza and beer, then ran it aground.

A poll worker has been shot outside a Los Angeles elementary school in what police are describing as a domestic dispute.

Authorities say they have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of stealing money from a Girl Scout troop that was selling cookies.