Updated: 11:02 AM A California food company has issued a warning against eating or buying containers of its sesame paste because they could be contaminated with salmonella.

Updated: 5:41 PM A judge has denied a request from Central Valley farmers to temporarily block California's ambitious high-speed rail project.

Updated: 2:53 PM A teenage California mother has been sentenced to six years in prison for a bid to poison her infant daughter by putting rat poison in her baby bottle.

Updated: 2:09 PM It wasn't difficult to identify a suspect in a break-in where an intruder kicked open a door and ransacked a bedroom before he was confronted by a Los Angeles homeowner.

Posted: 10:09 AM Sarah Jessica Parker and Gerard Butler are adding to the star wattage at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

Updated: 9:58 AM A family counselor has been charged with human trafficking, pimping and sex counts for forcing a 15-year-old Southern California girl into prostitution and selling sexual services on the Internet.

Updated: 3:38 PM The humane society says a landmark $500 million settlement has been reached in a slaughterhouse abuse case that led to the biggest meat recall in U.S. history in 2008.

Posted: 9:16 AM California's attorney general says the number of people identified as victims of human trafficking in the state has increased steadily since 2010.

Posted: 8:48 AM A 24-year-old California man is in jail for the stabbing death of a former girlfriend whose body was found in an alley.

Updated: 10:13 AM Investigators say a skull and jawbone found in a California trash bin may be part of a religious death shrine.

Posted: 11:26 PM A Northern California woman whose home was robbed is pleading with the thieves to return just one item: a silver urn that contains her baby's ashes.

Posted: 4:27 PM Union Station in downtown Los Angeles has reopened after a bomb scare forced a temporary shutdown of the bus, train and subway hub.

Posted: 11:44 AM Investigators say a California motorcycle officer was chasing a mini-bike operator for failure to wear a helmet when he crashed into a car, injuring a motorist.

Posted: 11:42 AM Police say a woman has been arrested on suspicion of DUI following a high speed chase through the streets of San Francisco, injuring a bicyclist and damaging several vehicles.

Posted: 11:39 AM State fitness tests administered to California's school-age children shows fewer than a third of tested students were in good physical shape.

Updated: 11:36 AM A 75-year-old man has been charged with molesting a young female relative in his Southern California furniture store.

Posted: 9:12 AM San Diego police say an apparently suicidal man has surrendered peacefully after a six-hour standoff with a SWAT team.

Posted: 10:07 PM A group of San Francisco residents is suing the city to block a proposed ban on public nudity.

Updated: 11:28 PM A 25-year-old Sacramento woman has been ordered to serve five years in prison for her role in a refund fraud scheme where prosecutors say she and two others collected nearly $1 million.

Updated: 11:28 PM A small plane has made an emergency landing in traffic on a highway median in the Sacramento area.

Posted: 9:44 PM Federal prosecutors say five Southern California men have been arrested for allegedly running a $5 million scam on the unemployment system.

Posted: 3:52 PM California has begun auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions, launching what is expected to be the world's second-largest carbon market.

Posted: 3:50 PM Firefighters have 50 percent containment of an 8-acre fire on steep slopes above a reservoir in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.

Updated: 11:32 PM A former California school teacher accuses school officials in a lawsuit of failing to accommodate her breastfeeding schedule.

Updated: 2:22 PM A man has been charged with raping an 18-year-old mentally disabled woman in the back of a Los Angeles County transit bus last week.