Posted: 4:34 AM A teenage girl's family says a Ventura police officer repeatedly sexually assaulted her before killing himself in Oct. 2011.

Posted: 4:32 AM Sonoma County prosecutors say a former campus police officer is facing time in prison after he admitted to stealing money from campus parking meters.

Posted: 4:30 AM Following years of layoffs, budget cuts and surge in violent crime, several police departments across the San Francisco Bay area are hiring again.

Posted: 4:25 AM Authorities say the man suspected of shooting and injuring two San Diego County sheriff's deputies in a standoff has killed himself.

Posted: 3:08 AM 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

Posted: 3:05 AM A Southern California detective killed in the final standoff with fugitive ex-police officer Christopher Dorner will be mourned and laid to rest.

Posted: 10:00 PM More top universities outside the United States are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are widening access to higher education.

Posted: 8:05 PM 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.

Updated: 10:47 PM 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.

Updated: 5:18 PM 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.

Posted: 6:34 AM 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.

Posted: 9:38 PM 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.

Posted: 5:03 PM Authorities say a teenage boy is dead as the result of a sledding accident in southern Washoe County.

Updated: 12:12 PM 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.

Updated: 9:40 AM Three Sacramento residents are in jail in South Lake Tahoe after a traffic stop Monday afternoon.

Posted: 11:33 AM 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.

Updated: 2:25 PM Authorities say a shooting spree through Orange County, Calif., left four people dead, including the shooter, and several others injured.

Updated: 8:40 AM A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman he met on a Christian dating website.

Posted: 4:49 AM 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.

Posted: 4:20 AM 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.

Posted: 4:12 AM It's beetlemania in San Diego County. But there are no screams of joy.

Posted: 4:06 AM Rancho Cordova police officers have shot and killed a man during a struggle inside a home.

Posted: 4:03 AM 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.

Posted: 4:01 AM A fire official says "excess hoarding" hampered efforts to rescue a 77-year-old woman from a deadly house fire in Hayward.

Posted: 3:10 AM Another winter storm is approaching California, where it's expected to bring freezing temperature, thunder, rain and snow as low as 1500 feet.