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.

A Riverside County jury has found a San Jacinto man guilty of murdering a man after luring him to a park with a fake Facebook profile featuring pictures of a female model.

An attorney representing a family bent out of shape over a public school yoga program in the beach city of Encinitas says he has filed a lawsuit to halt the district-wide classes.

Andrew Luster, a convicted rapist and heir to the Max Factor fortune, is seeking to have his 124-year prison sentence reduced and his conviction set aside.

Trial began Tuesday in Salem in the manslaughter trial of a hunter who killed a man mistaken for a bear near Silver Falls State Park.

Court documents are revealing new details in the rampage of a former Los Angeles police officer turned-fugitive before he died during a mountain cabin shootout.

Authorities say a teenage boy is dead as the result of a sledding accident in southern Washoe County.

Lawyers for the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy say his prosecution was "predicated on a lie," and they intend to file a motion for a new trial.

Three Sacramento residents are in jail in South Lake Tahoe after a traffic stop Monday afternoon.

Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck says the review of ex-officer Christopher Dorner's firing is under way, but it's too early to comment on the re-examination.

Authorities say a shooting spree through Orange County, Calif., left four people dead, including the shooter, and several others injured.

A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman he met on a Christian dating website.

A man has been arrested in Alabama in connection with the slayings of three men during a botched marijuana deal earlier this month in Northern California.

Drivers near Southern California's notorious Interstate 405 had reason to tone down their road rage when it was revealed the thing stopping traffic was a baby seal on city streets several miles from the ocean.

It's beetlemania in San Diego County. But there are no screams of joy.

Rancho Cordova police officers have shot and killed a man during a struggle inside a home.

Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it's about spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.

A fire official says "excess hoarding" hampered efforts to rescue a 77-year-old woman from a deadly house fire in Hayward.