Los Angeles voters are picking a new mayor, but the race is far different from the landmark election of Antonio Villaraigosa eight years ago.

Cardinal Roger Mahony was deposed in a lawsuit over a fugitive ex-priest suspected of molesting as many as 26 children in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

Police in the Monterey County community of Seaside have arrested a woman after her baby died and they say she tried to hide the body.

Authorities say two scuba divers have died while diving off the coast of California's Monterey County.

One man is dead after a being struck by a car Friday evening.

Oakland police are looking for a group of teenagers who opened fire on a transit bus early Saturday.

A phone company has agreed to pay $14.5 million over a 3,800-acre Malibu Canyon wildfire blamed on allegedly overloaded utility poles blown down by Santa Ana winds.

Eight Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly shot newspaper delivery women while guarding a target of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner remain out of the field pending an internal investigation.

A 43-year-old father is set to stand trial on charges that he kidnapped his two young children and took them away on a stolen yacht.

A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Thursday night, accused of crashing a car into a house.

The San Jose Mercury reports that Anna Ayala, the so-called Chili Finger Lady, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony and filing a false police report.

Child porn charges have been filed against a former San Mateo County chief probation officer.

Six young adults have been stabbed in a street brawl outside a downtown Los Angeles nightspot.

Authorities say a crane tipped over while working on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but there were no injuries.

Authorities say a crane tipping over won't delay the opening of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

The search for missing victims of the so-called "Speed Freak Killers" has ended without success at the bottom of abandoned well in remote Northern California.

A huge homeless encampment has mushroomed in a grassy field near downtown San Jose.

President Barack Obama is repeating his personal views of gay marriage but declined to say if his administration would get involved in the Supreme Court case that would overturn California's ban on gay marriage.

A teenage girl's family says a Ventura police officer repeatedly sexually assaulted her before killing himself in Oct. 2011.

Sonoma County prosecutors say a former campus police officer is facing time in prison after he admitted to stealing money from campus parking meters.

Following years of layoffs, budget cuts and surge in violent crime, several police departments across the San Francisco Bay area are hiring again.

Authorities say the man suspected of shooting and injuring two San Diego County sheriff's deputies in a standoff has killed himself.

Police say the four members of a Santa Cruz family are OK after two men - one armed with a decorative sword and the second with a screwdriver - tried to rob the family in their home

A Southern California detective killed in the final standoff with fugitive ex-police officer Christopher Dorner will be mourned and laid to rest.

More top universities outside the United States are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are widening access to higher education.