AP State News

Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line.

The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day.

A grand jury has indicted an alleged Bakersfield gang member in the shooting deaths of three men.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.

A Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people at a Watts housing project.

Prison officials say a man convicted of a 1987 double murder has died of natural causes, 16 years after he was sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison.

A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July.

MGM Mirage says two more structures at CityCenter have received an environmental certification.

In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

Members of the armed services on leave from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan will get free rides on Bay Area Rapid Transit starting in January.

San Jose officials have ordered a review of about 200 police department cases to determine if officers have used excessive force while attempting to make arrests.

California medical professionals who have abused drugs will now face drug tests twice a week and be immediately removed if they relapse.

The Las Vegas City Council has adopted an ordinance that will require most pet owners to spay or neuter their cats and dogs by 4 months of age.

A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face.

Police believe a batch of drugs blamed in Michael Jackson's death was purchased by his personal physician at a Las Vegas pharmacy, court documents released Friday show.

Court documents show police linked a drug blamed in Michael Jackson's death to the pop singer's personal physician who bought it at a Las Vegas pharmacy.

California is investigating whether 30 Southern California churches were bilked out of tens of thousands of dollars by companies that leased them computer equipment.

A homeless man charged with setting a small wildfire days before a massive blaze erupted in the Angeles National Forest has been sent to a mental institution.

University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees have barricaded themselves in part of a campus building.

Birth control for bison?

California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record, even though more than 25,000 Californians found jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.

Birth control for buffaloes?

A 39-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face.

Nevada's unemployment rate dipped in October, but economists cautioned Friday that while the figures are encouraging, they're more a reflection of a shrinking job market than job creation.

President Barack Obama has nominated a former press secretary to President George W. Bush and a past chairman of CNN to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The independent agency oversees nonmilitary international broadcasts sponsored by the federal government, including Voice of America.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a gang-related shooting that killed a man and wounded two others near a fire station in San Bernardino.

State transportation officials say work should be completed by the end of the year on a $1.8 million wildlife overpass in northeast Nevada.

A list of congressional districts with the fewest military academy nominations for the classes of 2009 to 2013, the officeholders and the total nominations they have made. All 20 are Democrats from districts where whites make up less than half the population, and all but two of the districts include major urban areas.

As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.