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.

A mysterious rock that hit a Novato home may be a meteor after all.

Authorities say a man wanted in Arizona on suspicion of fraud and weapons charges barricaded himself in a Garden Grove home, forcing the lockdown of a nearby school.

Three people have been convicted of filing more than $60,000 in false insurance claims related to an auto accident they staged in a Garden Grove intersection.

Authorities say they will continue to detain for questioning a man who fits the description of the gunman in shootings that killed three people and critically wounded two others at a family-owned business in suburban Los Angeles.

Skiers and riders are thrilled about all the snow this week's storms dumped into the mountains. And they have good reason to celebrate. On Thursday, Squaw Valley became the first local resort to open the mountain to the public.

Police say they've detained four people for questioning in the shootings that killed three people and critically wounding two in suburban Los Angeles.

Vallejo police say a woman came across a grisly scene on Wednesday afternoon when she came home to find her uncle dead with a severed hand.

A California appeals court says a straight-to-DVD horror movie loosely based on the life of the woman who built the 160-room Winchester Mystery House in San Jose did not violate the popular tourist attraction's trademark.

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.

Prosecutors say they've charged a 27-year-old man with throwing a Molotov cocktail at a man and setting him on fire in Long Beach.

The superintendent of a San Francisco Bay Area school district where high school athletes created a statistics-based fantasy sex league says the story has been sensationalized.

Octomom Nadya Suleman says death threats have stopped since she moved her 14 kids from Orange County to a Mojave Desert home where the neighbors are nice and the house has been egged only once.

Sacramento County sheriff's deputies have arrested the 19-year-old brother of a man whose wife and two young children were found brutally slain inside their suburban Sacramento home.

Authorities say one person is dead after a small plane crashed near Byron Airport in Contra Costa County.

Authorities say a California surfer has been killed by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The National Weather Service says the five tornadoes that touched down across Northern California this week tied a single-day record dating to 1996.

A California teacher fired after being accused of operating pornographic websites from a school-issued laptop is fighting to get her job back.