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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a San Diego County man with securities fraud, saying he targeted Somali immigrants in San Diego and Seattle.

A Sacramento police officer has been arrested on suspicion of abusing his girlfriend.

Federal prosecutors on Friday said they would not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge's dismissal of a Missouri mother's convictions for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

A Princess Cruises crew member has been acquitted of the sexual assault of a female passenger.

Former state Assemblyman Nao Takasugi (NAH'-oh tah-kah-SOO'-gee), who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87.

Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.

The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul accused of crushing his girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat will stand trial in her death.

Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in Santa Cruz County to help communities affected by storms that battered the area in October.

Police say they have arrested a third person in connection with the shooting death of an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in his garage.

The 27-year-old son of a veteran Los Angeles police officer has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and the officer is facing similar charges.

A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph Friday knocked out power for thousands of people in northern Nevada, grounded flights and kicked up dust storms that contributed to a fatal pile-up that shut down a stretch of U.S. Interstate 80.

Two men face charges in connection with a street race in San Jose that killed a 20-year-old woman.

A recall effort against a Republican state lawmaker who voted to raise taxes earlier this year has failed.

Oakland police say an Oakland teenager who was shot and killed while answering his front door may have been an unintended victim.

Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson that had been accused of misspending government grants.

Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty for a former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy accuse of murdering a state correctional officer.

A winter storm packing wind gusts more than 80 mph knocked out power to thousands of northern Nevadans, grounded flights and contributed to a fatal pile-up that shut down a stretch of U.S. Interstate 80.

Authorities say a pilot was killed when his small plane crashed in Northern California near the Nevada border.

A woman has pleaded no contest in a head-on crash that killed a man on U.S. Highway 50 in March.

A Minneapolis nonprofit group best known as a video game watchdog is closing its doors at the end of the year due to a lack of funding.

A woman who drove the getaway car after a robbery and murder at an ATM in Los Angeles last year will spend 25 years to life in prison.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected three grape growers' challenge to a mandatory advertising campaign for California table grapes.

Los Angeles cold-case detectives have arrested a man charged with murdering a 65-year-old woman nearly three decades ago.

California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday.

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

A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down 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.