Prosecutors say a jury has convicted a woman of first-degree murder in the gruesome death of her former friend, San Francisco Bay area nursing student Michelle Le.

Authorities are investigating the theft of more than 80,000 pounds of walnuts from Northern California valued at about $300,000.

Following a successful job fair earlier this month and given the resort’s hiring needs for the upcoming winter season, Northstar has decided to host another hiring event on Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Themed “bring home the bacon,” the resort will offer a hot breakfast – with bacon – to the first 200 who apply for a position and show up at the job fair between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. for an interview.

Redding police have arrested a 28-year-old man in the shooting death of his friend, even though the suspect wasn't the shooter.

Authorities say a Fresno woman was killed and her two young children suffered major injuries when their car was broadsided in Madera County.

A 12-year-old California boy says he killed his dog because he wanted to see the terrier mix die.

All major U.S. stock exchanges will remain closed with Hurricane Sandy due to make landfall on the East Coast.

Officials are investigating whether a joint fire-police SWAT team exercise may have sparked a brushfire that injured one firefighter and briefly threatened homes in San Diego County.

The Dragon has left the space station and is headed back to Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released the commercial cargo ship Sunday morning.

Learning how to play tennis is hard enough. Now try it when you can't see.

An untold number of so-called zombies are headed for a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, firefighters and others to prepare them for their worst nightmares.

Search teams have found one missing hiker in Desolation Wilderness, but crews are still looking for two other hikers who have disappeared in separate wilderness areas in central California.

Authorities say two suspects are dead after pursuit and shootout with police in the Central Valley city of Visalia.

Just in time for Halloween, police in Buffalo say a drug raid turned up 640 marijuana lollipops that had been obtained in California under the guise that they were for medicinal purposes.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony are betting that their respective hometown teams will win the World Series.

Two decades ago, Mi Pueblo Food Center began as a small butcher shop run by an illegal immigrant. But now the company is under fire from an ongoing immigration audit and its decision to use a controversial federal program that screens the eligibility of new employees to work in the U.S.

A judge has sentenced a California man accused of imprisoning and torturing his girlfriend over more than two months to a state mental institution.

Four teenage boys will be tried as adults in the gang-related beating death of a 14-year-old boy in San Jose.

Authorities have made an arrest in the slaying of a woman who was brutally beaten before her Castro Valley home was set on fire.

Firefighters are on alert as hot, dry Santa Ana winds bring a second day of high fire danger to Southern California.

A man whose wife and two children were brutally slain this week in their Sacramento-area home says he allowed his younger brother to stay with them despite strained relations and a history of violent threats.

A California Highway Patrol officer is recovering after he was stabbed by a man who reportedly tried to jump onto a freeway.

A jury says a Central Valley couple who faked the wife's death committed fraud in the sale of their horse ranch. The panel ruled against Dr. Michael Weilert of Clovis and his wife on Thursday and awarded the ranch buyers $700,000.

Authorities say a northern Los Angeles County apartment that blew up, severely burning a man, was being used as an illegal drug lab.

Authorities say a body that washed ashore on a San Mateo County beach has been identified as a 16-year-old runaway.