AP State News

A Los Angeles developer and attorney has been found dead in his Brentwood home.

An Oceanside police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of grand theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy for allegedly stealing from Home Depot through his girlfriend's employer.

Santa Barbara County sheriff's officials say a search for a missing person linked to a marijuana garden in the Los Padres National Forest led to the arrest of 17 people on drug charges.

Three members of a Lodi family are in intensive care in a San Francisco hospital after eating mushrooms they picked in the wild.

San Bernardino County narcotics agents have seized 1,300 pounds of marijuana during a raid of an Ontario home used by a Mexican drug cartel.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration said Thursday it can comply with a court order to sharply reduce California's prison population if federal judges bypass the state Legislature and pre-empt state laws.

Southern Californians are accustomed to hearing the phrase "red flag warning" in weather reports when conditions are ripe for wildfires.

Swine flu deaths in California are on the rise.

A 50-year-old electrical engineer remains behind bars after being sentenced for trying to meet what he thought was a young girl on the Internet.

The mayor of the small city of San Jacinto and three other City Council members have been charged with offering bribes and conspiring to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign money, Riverside County prosecutors said Thursday.

The owners of a nightclub and lounge on the Las Vegas Strip have filed for bankruptcy protection in Florida.

About 500 San Francisco city workers represented by the city's largest union are facing the prospect of layoffs or salary cuts as the city struggles with its budget deficit.

Nevada will play host to California for the first time ever next season as the schools have reached an agreement in principle on a three-game football series.

The Reno Arch is going green.

Thousands of union workers across Arizona are poised to go on strike Friday after months of failed negotiations with two major grocery chains.

A dog named Titan lived up to his name Thursday when he earned the title world's tallest dog.

During a ceremony Thursday, the Guinness Book of World Records officially proclaimed that a 4-year-old Great Dane named Titan from San Diego is the world's tallest dog.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman says the City Council could vote as soon as next month on a proposal to build a new city hall.

A skydiver killed during a jump this week had tried earlier in the day to set a parachuting record in a charity event, friends and officials said Thursday.

Intel Corp. says it will pay $1.25 billion to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in a settlement announced Thursday. The following is a look at the legal battles between Intel and AMD, which supply essentially all of the microprocessors for today's personal computers:

A coalition of environmentalists filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop the development of a 5,000-acre gated resort community on the sprawling Tejon Ranch property some 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

A legal challenge was expected to be filed by the end of the day against a proposed Nevada ballot measure that seeks to define a person and override Nevada's abortion laws.

A coalition of environmentalists filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop the development of a 5,000-acre resort community on the sprawling Tejon Ranch property some 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

A prison inmate has pleaded not guilty to arson and murder charges for a 2003 wildfire linked to five heart attack deaths in Southern California .

Fresno police say they've arrested two men in the largest ecstasy bust in city history.

A trial for a man charged with shooting three Las Vegas SWAT officers who were serving a warrant at his Henderson home has been postponed.

A coalition of environmentalists have filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a 5,000-acre gated resort community on the sprawling Tejon Ranch property some 60 miles north of Los Angeles.

A federal prosecutor says the former owner of a Nevada property firm faces conspiracy and fraud charges in a mortgage fraud scheme involving so-called "straw buyers" and false loan documents.

A German man was charged Thursday with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said.