The company linked to a tour bus involved in a deadly crash in Southern California failed more than a third of federal vehicle safety inspections in the last two years.

Three civilian employees at Camp Pendleton in Southern California have been charged with stealing more than $3 million worth of medical equipment.

Oracle is buying the network gear company Acme Packet for about $2.1 billion.

Firefighters have found a body in a gutted two-story East Los Angeles commercial building.

San Francisco police say 25 people have been arrested for public intoxication as the city mourned the 49ers' Super Bowl loss.

A tour bus collided with a car and pickup truck, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others Sunday night on a Southern California mountain highway, authorities said.

Transit officials say minor rail delays occurred after an Amtrak train carrying no passengers derailed in Los Angeles.

Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the movie "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 88.

The streets of San Francisco were quiet early Sunday, but officials have been bracing for possible trouble as fans gather in hotspots across the city to watch their 49ers take on the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl.

Ben Affleck has won the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for his CIA thriller "Argo," further sealing its status as best-picture front-runner at the Academy Awards.

The love-struck zombies of "Warm Bodies" swarmed the box office on Super Bowl weekend with a $20 million opening.

Fed up with traditional taxis, more city dwellers are tapping their smartphones to hitch rides across town using mobile apps that allow connect riders and drivers.

The federal government's push for drastic reforms at chronically low achieving schools has led to takeovers by charter operators, overhauls of staff and curriculum, and even school shutdowns across the country.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the body of a missing diver has been found in the waters off Santa Cruz Island.

Environmental and land preservation groups are concerned about a growing number of solar generating plants being targeted on prime farmland across California's San Joaquin Valley.

In a matter of minutes, a hulking power plant that loomed over San Diego Bay since the late 1950s has been demolished.

Wildlife officials say a tiny lizard found on three of Southern California's Channel Islands is no longer threatened.

Oakland officials have introduced a municipal identification card that will double as full-fledged debit card.

A Central California man has pleaded guilty to throwing his girlfriend under his sport utility vehicle and running her over, killing the woman.

A Marine Corps survey shows 17 percent of male Marine respondents say they would likely leave the Corps if women move into combat positions.

Authorities say the man wanted in connection with an alleged toddler abduction in Oakland has surrendered and tells investigators the child doesn't exist.

The San Francisco Bay estuary has been added to a list of protected wetlands under a 1971 international treaty among 163 countries meant to limit damaging development along ecologically important waterways.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez has relieved retired Cardinal Roger Mahony of his remaining duties, on the same night the church released thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of sexual abuse.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez has relieved retired Cardinal Roger Mahony of his remaining duties, on the same night the church released thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of sexual abuse.

Federal officials say they have recovered five rock carvings that were hacked off and stolen by thieves last year from a sacred American Indian site in California's Sierra Nevada.