LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A lawyer for the parent company of AEG Live LLC called Michael Jackson a freak on the day the singer signed a multimillion contract for a series of ill-fated comeback concerts, emails displayed for a jury on Wednesday showed....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Voters approved a law limiting the number of medical pot shops in Los Angeles after politicians failed for years to corral the blossoming industry....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The America's Cup regatta director has released 37 recommendations made by a group of sailing experts intended to increase safety in the race nearly two weeks after a practice run on San Francisco Bay turned deadly....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff....
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) -- Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday. He was 94....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Five of the California State University's 23 campuses are getting new leaders, the system's board of trustees announced Wednesday....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the extension of a toll road in southern Orange County, five years after widespread public opposition stopped a similar project....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to three years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to board a flight in Sacramento, Calif., with four loaded guns....
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A wildfire in Death Valley National Park has forced the closure of popular Scotty's Castle....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face threats to their clout....