Posted: 6:36 AM The California Board of Pilot Commissioners is now investigating the pilot of an empty tanker ship that sideswiped the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Posted: 3:25 PM Authorities say a teacher in Northern California is facing charges for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former student.

Posted: 3:13 PM California has been awarded a $674 million federal grant to continue developing and building an online insurance marketplace under the federal health care reform law.

Posted: 3:04 PM The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is looking into the death of an inmate inside the county jail.

Posted: 1:25 PM The two biggest players in the nation's pursuit of high-speed rail say they'll work together to search for trains that will operate at up to 220 miles per hour along both coasts of the United States.

Posted: 1:23 PM A 67-year-old pilot is OK after making an emergency landing on a Northern California highway.

Posted: 6:50 AM The Northern California family of a 5-year-old special-needs boy who was hurled to the floor and kicked by his teacher is getting $950,000.

Posted: 6:35 AM A pro-marijuana activist known as NJ Weedman won't be sent to jail for possessing a pound of pot.

Updated: 1:56 PM The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest of the 'AK-47 Bandit,' who has robbed banks all over the western U.S. and shot one officer.

Posted: 6:50 PM With California's temperatures slowly climbing, citrus growers say they have seen little crop damage after a sixth night of very cold weather.

Posted: 11:44 AM A California judge has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to release two decades of internal files detailing sexual abuse allegations, the latest in a series of disclosures by the youth organization.

Posted: 11:35 AM A California study says unlicensed drivers are the most hazardous motorists on the road.

Posted: 10:56 AM A more than seven-hour standoff has ended at an East Los Angeles home where an armed man was thought to be holed up after an argument with his mother.

Posted: 11:27 PM A San Francisco lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ask voters to rename the city's airport after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

Posted: 3:25 PM The search for a jury is set to begin in the trial of six former officials of the scandal-ridden Los Angeles suburb of Bell accused of massive corruption that brought national attention and nearly bankrupted the city.

Posted: 3:23 PM Lawsuits filed by survivors of the deadly San Bruno gas pipeline explosion likely won't go to trial.

Posted: 3:19 PM Oakland police are attributing much of the city's violent crime in recent months to a fight between rival gangs that stems from the slaying of a girl last summer.

Posted: 3:16 PM A Sacramento-area prison is reopening next week to house about 400 female inmates as part of a reorganization within the California prison system.

Updated: 5:10 PM Authorities say a police officer in the Sacramento County city of Galt has been shot and killed.

Updated: 12:29 PM Whatever Facebook's big secret is, it'll be revealed today at a "press event."

Updated: 4:56 PM A Northern California mother has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter for the death of her 2-year-old son, who drowned in the family's algae-covered swimming pool.

Updated: 5:16 PM A Truckee man is being held in the Nevada County jail, accused of domestic violence against his wife twice.

Posted: 12:35 PM The Legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst is preparing to offer its assessment of Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal.

Updated: 12:31 PM Los Angeles police say five people have been arrested for a holdup in which 14 people were held hostage for hours at a West Los Angeles clothing store.

Updated: 10:52 AM As an unusual cold gripped the West Coast, some California citrus growers have damage to their crops after a fourth night of freezing temperatures.