Police do not plan to seek charges against a man who spotted two 17-year-olds holding up a deli in Salinas, retrieved a handgun from his car and shot them both.

Federal officials say they have arrested a man at Los Angeles International Airport after a smoke grenade, knives, gas mask, leg irons, body bags and a variety of weapons were discovered in luggage.

A man, his son and grandson climbed a mountain peak with no name, but there was one on what they found there.

Charlie Brown and his "Peanuts" pals are coming to the big-screen.

A grower from Oregon is the winner of this year's Half Moon Bay giant pumpkin contest with a gourd weighing in at 1,775 pounds.

Los Angeles police have arrested a burglary suspect after tracing his movements from a GPS monitor he wore while allegedly commiting the crime.

A Lamborghini hit speeds topping 100 miles an hour before it smashed into the median and exploded in flames.

Critics don't like "Taken 2," but Liam Neeson's action sequel proved twice as popular as the original movie was.

Rampant fraud within California's recycling redemption program is costing the state millions, as scammers drive trucks full of cans across the border from Nevada and Arizona to collect nickels on deposits that were never paid.

Police are asking for the public's help with any possible information after a woman was found dead in her home in the usually quiet Bay Area city of Hercules.

During a campaign swing through California, President Barack Obama will establish a national monument on the property that was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and his farmworker movement.

Authorities in Douglas County, Ore., say they arrested a man who escaped from a California prison.

It's a record, though just barely. The price of gasoline has hit an all-time average high in California of $4.6140 a gallon, fueled by a reduced supply and a volatile market.

Will customers want to know if their food is genetically engineered? That question is at the heart of a California ballot initiative.

A seven-year study shows many mountain lions in Nevada are migrating westward to take up residence in California.

San Francisco is facing its own possible "Carmeggedon" this weekend, as an unusual convergence of high-attendance sporting and entertainment events is expected to bring as many as a million people into the densely populated bayside city.

Someone fired 58 BB pellets into a Southern California horse named Calamity Jane.

A northern California man has died from rabies believed to be contracted from an encounter with a bat in Contra Costa County.

South Lake Tahoe Police have arrested a man for allegedly setting fire to a structure in South Lake Tahoe.

Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped in the Lake Tahoe area.

The cost of gasoline in California jumped 8 cents overnight and is poised to soar to the highest point this year in what analysts say is a supply problem fueled by refinery and pipeline outages.

A 12-year-old Southern California boy behind the wheel of the family car has led deputies on a chase that ended with a crash and the car bursting into flames.

A Fairfield mom convicted of murdering her twin toddler daughters has been sentenced to two life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.

Fire officials are crediting the efforts of homeowners in creating so-called defensible space for saving some of their homes from a brushfire in rural El Dorado County Tuesday.

The Nevada Highway Patrol is trying to find the vehicle that hit a man crossing the street at Stateline and drove off without stopping.