A Morgan Hill mother accused of using her 10-year-old daughter to shoplift groceries and then abandoning the child when store employees intervened appeared in court Tuesday.
Sixty-five years after becoming the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager is still making noise.
A newspaper is reporting that corrosion that went unchecked - the suspected cause of a fire at Chevron Corp.'s Richmond refinery in August - was linked to another fire at the plant in October 2011 that prompted some workers to complain to regulators.
A passenger boat carrying nearly two dozen people started sinking near Alcatraz island in San Francisco Bay, but the U.S. Coast Guard says everyone aboard was safely rescued.
A new law allowing Californians to register to vote online appears to be having its intended effect, attracting more than 400,000 users in its first three weeks.
The family of a woman who was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent near San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim, saying the agent had a history of misconduct in his previous job.
Californians are increasingly pumping air into the flat tires on their dusty old bikes instead of gas into their tanks. For example, San Francisco has seen a 71% spike in cycling from 2006 to 2011.
Testimony is scheduled to begin next week in a trial that will focus on Britney Spears' darkest days, but jurors are unlikely to hear from the pop superstar directly.
A California judge has tentatively agreed to have customers pay a little more than half the $2.2 billion cost to improve Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s gas lines, rejecting the utility's request to have ratepayers shoulder 84 percent of required safety upgrades to their pipelines.
Authorities say a man who wore a bulletproof vest on a plane and had weapons in his checked bags had manuals stored on his computer detailing how to kill people and schedules for Japanese schools.
A dog that lost its snout while saving two girls in the Philippines has been brought to the University of California, Davis, where veterinarians will try to fix its injuries.
A federal police officer is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of a colleague as the two fought with a group of people outside a Modesto bar.
Police say they've investigated allegations of child neglect at the Southern California home of the woman known as Octomom, Nadya Suleman (NAH'-dee-uh SOO'-luh-mahn), and her 14 children.
San Bernardino County fire authorities say a school bus carrying 40 children was toppled in an accident that has injured 13 children and the bus driver.
A portion of the Los Angeles Police Department's downtown headquarters was evacuated for a couple of hours after an envelope with a white powdery substance and a threatening note was found.
