Posted: 9:25 PM The state transportation department says it has determined that the foundations underpinning thousands of bridges, overcrossings and other structures are safe.

Updated: 9:22 PM Student journalists at a Central Valley high school are getting a lesson in the First Amendment after administrators confiscated their newspaper over concerns about a campus safety article.

Posted: 5:07 PM Weeks after New York enacted the nation's toughest gun laws, California lawmakers want the state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, particularly the Newtown, Conn., school massacre.

Updated: 12:03 PM The search for a former Los Angeles police officer accused of killing three people, including a cop, extends to the Las Vegas area, where he has a home.

Updated: 5:10 PM Thousands of police officers in Southern California and Nevada are hunting for a disgruntled former Los Angeles officer.

Updated: 5:05 PM The most feared predator in the ocean received new protections today when a California commission decided the great white shark should be studied as a potential endangered species.

Updated: 4:41 AM The utility that runs the troubled San Onofre (oh-NOH'-fray) nuclear power plant in California is pushing back against allegations that the company took engineering shortcuts that compromised safety.

Posted: 4:33 AM Officials believe a camel that escaped its enclosure twice Tuesday before being clipped by a minivan probably just wanted to be around some other animals.

Posted: 4:30 AM Seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies from an anti-gang unit were notified earlier this week that the department intends to fire them for being members of a secret law enforcement clique that allegedly encouraged unethical conduct.

Posted: 4:26 AM Police have arrested a Riverside County teen who they say threatened to kill one of his teachers on Twitter.

Posted: 4:16 AM A judge has declined to reconsider his ruling dismissing charges filed under California's anti-paparazzi law, triggering a full appeal before a panel of judges who have indicated that they believe the law is constitutional.

Posted: 4:06 AM Fairfield police say they're working with the FBI in the search for the killer of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in a park last week.

Posted: 4:04 AM Bay Area residents may have a chance to walk on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge if a proposed grand opening celebration is approved.

Posted: 3:55 AM Police say a former Los Angeles officer suspected in the killings of a college basketball coach and her fiance was represented by the coach's father when he lost his job.

Posted: 3:51 AM The FBI says a man charged with murder in Riverside County, Calif., has been arrested in South Florida.

Posted: 9:32 PM Officials believe a camel that escaped its enclosure twice Tuesday before being clipped by a minivan probably just wanted to be around some other animals.

Updated: 4:45 PM NBA Commissioner David Stern says the group that has reached agreement to purchase the Sacramento Kings has formally filed to relocate the franchise to Seattle.

Updated: 4:13 PM San Francisco police are asking for the public's help in the decades-old disappearance of a 10-year-old boy that garnered national attention at the time.

Updated: 12:45 PM Five people were injured Wednesday when a San Francisco cable car came to a sudden stop in the city's Nob Hill neighborhood, authorities said.

Posted: 9:46 AM San Francisco police plan to provide an update on the investigation into the high-profile disappearance of 10-year-old Kevin Collins in 1984.

Posted: 9:23 AM A California jury has convicted a man for the shotgun killing of his mother.

Posted: 9:19 AM Authorities have evacuated an Emeryville office building used by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory after a reported bomb threat.

Posted: 8:26 AM California authorities say the death toll from last weekend's tour bus collision has risen to eight with the death of the driver of a pickup truck struck by the bus.

Posted: 12:07 AM California is abandoning an algebra requirement for eighth graders, a move already adopted by most states.

Posted: 5:33 PM Authorities say three men have been found dead in a rural Sonoma County home.