Updated: 10:25 AM Authorities say three people have been arrested for operating a sophisticated identity theft ring in San Jose.

Updated: 8:20 PM Officials with a Central California drug task force say they've seized hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in a raid of a San Joaquin Valley home.

Updated: 3:18 PM Sheriff's officials say a man killed his wife and 4-year-old and 8-year-old daughters in rural Northern California.

Posted: 10:41 AM Commuters may soon know whether the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open as scheduled on Labor Day.

Posted: 10:29 AM A transportation official says a planned repair for seismic safety rods that snapped on the new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge could cost between $5 million to $10 million.

Updated: 1:09 PM Disney Enterprises has dropped an effort to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," the name of the traditional "Day of the Dead" holiday celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S.

Updated: 10:41 AM The singer of Grammy-nominated heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has been arrested in Southern California after authorities say he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.

Posted: 8:06 AM Los Angeles police say three parties will split the $1 million reward offered during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, with most of it going to a couple tied up by the rogue ex-cop before his final shootout with authorities.

Posted: 2:52 PM Yosemite National Park officials are bringing in two more dog teams to help search for a missing hiker whose last known destination was a waterfall where three young people were swept to their deaths two years ago.

Posted: 1:28 PM Authorities have released the names of all five women killed when a limousine burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay bridge.

Posted: 1:22 PM Gov. Jerry Brown says he believes the public still has confidence in the safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Posted: 1:09 PM San Francisco International Airport is not going to be renamed after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, after all.

Posted: 12:16 PM The lawyer for a former Nevada lawmaker charged in a car chase and a police confrontation is asking that his client go through a mental health court program.

Posted: 9:32 AM Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard says the women who went missing about a decade ago and were found at a Cleveland home need a chance to heal and reconnect with the world.

Updated: 8:47 AM A man has been arrested after police say he brought a homemade pipe bomb to a Los Angeles gun buyback.

Posted: 9:56 PM California officials say it's premature to move more than 3,000 inmates out of two state prisons until more is known about an airborne fungus that is being blamed for nearly three-dozen inmate deaths.

Posted: 9:52 PM One of the survivors of a limousine fire that killed five people on a San Francisco Bay bridge is describing the terrifying moments - and disputing the driver's version of events of what happened when the limo burst into flames.

Updated: 5:26 PM A California agency probing a deadly limousine fire that killed five women is considering whether to fine the limo company $7,500 per day for misrepresenting the limo's seating capacity.

Posted: 2:04 PM The California agency investigating the deadly 2010 gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood says Pacific Gas & Electric Co. should pay a $2.25 billion fine for its negligence leading up to the blast.

Posted: 12:43 PM Authorities have identified the two men who died after their canoe capsized during a family outing at a Northern California reservoir.

Updated: 9:00 AM Firefighters building containment lines around a huge Southern California wildfire are now dealing with muddy and slippery conditions as rain moves in.

Updated: 12:38 PM A Marin County woman who plotted with a lover to have her husband killed by hit men in 1991 has died in state prison.

Updated: 12:39 PM Cool, rainy weather throughout Central and Southern California has made for slippery roads but it's good news for crews fighting a huge wildfire.

Posted: 4:20 PM California and federal public health officials say valley fever, a potentially lethal disease, has been on the rise as warming climates and drought have kicked up the dust that spreads it.

Posted: 11:47 AM California was an early booster of President Barack Obama's health care law and its Democratic political leadership was quick to commit to the optional Medicaid expansion. But it turns out that saying yes was the easy part.