A federal judge late Monday rejected Apple Inc.'s demands that its chief rival in the more than $100 billion global smartphone market cease selling models a jury recently found illegally used Apple technology.

Thousands of people in a handful of small communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills southeast of Sacramento are without electricity after a power outage hit the area.

A federal judge is considering whether sex offenders' use of social media constitutes free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The last of California's great gold mines closed a generation ago.

The body of a missing 77-year-old man believed to have fallen into the waters off Mare Island has washed ashore.

Southbound Interstate 5 truck lanes in northern Los Angeles have been blocked for hours by a jackknifed big-rig.

A California lawmaker says he will introduce legislation aimed at strengthening the state's restrictions on gun ownership in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Three members of a holiday-bound family stranded with a flat tire on a Northern California freeway have been struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle.

A Southern California man was arrested and nine guns, including rifles and a shotgun, were seized after threats were posted on Facebook against Los Angeles elementary schools.

Administrators of a California school district say they are being cautious as they launch what is believed to be the country's most comprehensive yoga program for a public school system.

A massive replanting in Napa Valley of some of the world's priciest vineyards is so widespread a critical shortage of grapevine root stock has developed.

Police say hundreds of guns have been taken off the streets of Oakland and San Francisco in a gun buyback program that Oakland police Officer Johnna Watson is describing as a "huge success."

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" led the box office with an opening of $84.8 million, a start better than the three previous "Lord of the Rings" films.

Police have taken a suspect into custody after shots were fired at a Southern California shopping mall, forcing a lockdown of stores. It did not appear anyone was hurt.

Santa Ana police shot and wounded a suspect officers believed was reaching for a weapon following a foot chase.

Union officials say thousands of registered nurses at nine San Francisco Bay area hospitals will be walking off the job on the day before Christmas.

Los Angeles schools will receive more than a quarter million dollars in federal prize money for winning "Healthier US Schools Challenge" awards for promoting nutrition and physical activities.

An early morning crash in South Lake Tahoe killed one person, sent two others to the hospital, and knocked out power to a neighborhood.

A former Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on charges of bilking at least $3 million from several people, including fellow officers, who invested in a real estate scheme.

Transportation officials say a section of Highway 1 through Sonoma County closed because of storm damage will remain closed indefinitely.

They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock 'n' roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes.

A Ventura woman accused of drowning her 8-year-old daughter two years ago has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder by reason of insanity.

Police say four people have been wounded in a Saturday morning shooting in East Oakland.

A state report says that while cigarette sales have plunged, sales of smokeless tobacco products have surged in the past decade in California.

Southern California officials say an adult mountain lion and an offspring likely killed a deer that was found dead at the Sport Complex in Glendale.