A research firm says Southern California posted its strongest home sales for a January in six years amid heavy interest from investors.

State transportation officials are laying out two new proposals to reduce delays on Highway 140 into Yosemite National Park.

The man accused in the killing of a 13-year-old Suisun City girl appeared in court Wednesday, but did not enter a plea.

Orange County prosecutors say a man in prison for life without parole has been charged with killing his friend three decades ago.

South Lake Tahoe Police are warning against possible identity theft. According to police, a credit card “skimmer” device was used at the Safeway gas station at the corner of U.S. Highway 50 and Takela Ave. During their investigation they found more than one victim of identity theft.

Authorities say one person is dead after a small plane lost a wing and crashed just feet from a Northern California freeway.

State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says just eight of the 1,300 insurance companies doing business in California have holdings in Iran's energy, military and nuclear industries.

The Los Angeles Police Department is returning largely to normal operations after the apparent fiery end to the hunt for Christopher Dorner.

The mother and sisters of a girl whom authorities think was killed more than 27 years ago by California's notorious "Speed Freak Killers" are suing San Joaquin County officials over the handling of the 16-year-old's exhumed remains.

Highway 395 is back open after a crash that led to power lines in the road.

An official briefed on the investigation tells The Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin.

Barry Bonds is asking a federal court to toss out his felony obstruction of conviction.

Authorities say two men are hospitalized after a pilot of a small plane tried to make an emergency landing on a road in rural Colusa County and the plane hit trees.

A sheriff's spokeswoman says charred human remains have been found in the burned-out cabin where a fugitive former Los Angeles police officer was believed to be.

Fire officials say four people died and a fifth has been critically injured after a vehicle smashed into center divider on Highway 58 about 10 miles east of Mojave.

A team mascot for a California minor league hockey team is becoming a sensation on the Internet after trying to escape its handler.

A Stockton man convicted of killing his girlfriend after he was found living with her rotting corpse has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Two San Diego pit bull owners have been convicted in their dog's fatal mauling of a 75-year-old woman.

A supervisor at a California Department of Motor Vehicles office is facing a bribery conspiracy charge in connection with a scheme to sell driver's licenses to people who failed required tests.

A lawyer has pleaded no contest to conspiring to smuggle $30,000 in drugs to a client at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in exchange for $100.

Richmond police say a 30-year-old man is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in a confrontation with officers.

FBI officials say after five weeks of searching, they've found debris, but no human remains during an excavation of an abandoned well in on rural agricultural land near the San Joaquin County community of Linden.

U.S. border inspectors are warning of unusually heavy traffic at California border crossings into Mexico amid the search for a fugitive ex-police officer wanted in the slayings of three people.

Animal rescue volunteers are struggling to care for more than 50 sea lions stranded on Southern California beaches.

Authorities have identified three people killed Sunday in a pre-dawn helicopter crash while filming for a new reality TV show for the Discovery Channel.