Posted: 3:40 AM A man and woman doing yard work in their Southern California home have unearthed what police believe to be a human skull and bones.

Updated: 2:07 PM Officials say nearly 700 guns are off the streets of San Mateo County and are in the hands of law enforcement officials after the latest in a series of what authorities across the San Francisco Bay area have been describing as successful gun buyback programs.

Posted: 12:23 PM When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he's already learned the day's lesson - he watched it on a short online video prepared by his teacher for homework.

Posted: 12:00 PM Authorities say an off-duty security guard shot and wounded a man who attempted to rob him outside a Gardena outlet mall.

Posted: 11:44 AM San Mateo County officials say so many cars were in line for a gun buyback program set for Saturday that they decided to get started a little early.

Posted: 9:48 AM An investigation has found the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection hid $3.6 million in collected legal settlements rather than depositing it into the state's general fund as required.

Posted: 9:42 AM San Diego Mayor Bob Filner quietly sacked the city's lobbyists in Sacramento and Washington earlier this month without informing city councilmembers.

Posted: 9:09 PM A discharged Marine has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of a friend's toddler daughter near a military base in the Southern California desert.

Posted: 7:13 PM Prosecutors say a convicted felon who had been deported to Mexico then returned to California has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for breaking into Orange County bedrooms and touching women and girls as they slept, including sexual assaults on girls 11 and 13 years old.

Posted: 3:59 PM A judge has sentenced an Oakland teen convicted of killing his adoptive parents to 25 years to life in prison after the 16-year-old pleaded guilty to both slayings.

Posted: 3:45 PM The California agency charged with overseeing teacher licenses has taken months to review the cases of a Los Angeles Unified elementary school teacher suspected of molesting at least a dozen students and a principal who failed to report him to authorities.

Posted: 3:18 PM A shirtless man has finally climbed down from the roof of an East Los Angeles house hours after he ran there to escape a bail bondsman.

Posted: 3:18 PM It's going to take a little longer to learn if California's troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant will start again.

Posted: 8:54 PM San Francisco officials have approved a plan that would greatly complicate future efforts to drain a city-owned flooded gorge in Yosemite National Park that has been called a twin of breathtaking Yosemite Valley.

Updated: 11:42 PM Authorities say a hiker found a woman's body in wilderness north of Los Angeles.

Updated: 5:39 PM Sacramento County's prosecutor has rejected a report from the state attorney general on $20 million hidden by state parks officials and says she will not consider pressing charges against anyone.

Updated: 11:49 PM California's top prosecutor is suing clothing manufacturers based in India and China for allegedly using pirated software, giving them an unfair advantage over American companies.

Posted: 5:17 PM Investigators at Corcoran State Prison are investigating the murder an inmate serving time for murder.

Posted: 5:12 PM Gov. Jerry Brown is calling a special legislative session to implement parts of the federal health care overhaul in California.

Posted: 3:43 PM Another sci-fi universe has been put in the hands of J.J. Abrams.

Posted: 3:22 PM A chemistry researcher at the University of California, Davis who was injured in an explosion at his campus apartment last week faces 10 charges of possessing firearms and explosives.

Posted: 3:08 PM Readers of Lance Armstrong's two books detailing his cycling accomplishments are suing the disgraced athlete and his publishers because of his denials of drug use.

Updated: 3:56 PM A San Francisco hedge fund founder has been sentenced in New York to two years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.

Posted: 1:00 PM A prominent genetics expert from Harvard Medical School says he is not looking for a woman to bear a Neanderthal baby. Not even an adventurous one.

Posted: 11:39 AM Berkeley-based company is recalling frozen pizzas that may contain metal fragments.