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The head of U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan is scheduled to speak at a sold out event in San Francisco.

State education officials have given a failing grade to a plan by two Southern California elementary schools to use extended summer sessions to make up for lost class time.

The head of U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan is scheduled to speak at a sold out event in San Francisco.

Starting Friday, most state government offices will begin closing three days a month to save California some money.

The Nevada Test Site says the last of 65 truckloads of repackaged radioactive waste has been shipped to Idaho, pending final disposal at the federal Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.

A Los Angeles city councilman is calling on AEG Live to pay some of the estimated $1.4 million tab for the Michael Jackson memorial service Tuesday at Staples Center.

A 21-year-old who testified in the murder trial of his cousin has pleaded no contest to lying on the witness stand.

Prosecutors in San Diego have decided not to file charges against a pedicab driver whose passenger died after she fell from his pedal-powered vehicle.

Paris Hilton hated her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" and refused for months to make promotional appearances for it despite a contract requiring her to do so, lawyers for the film's investors said as trial opened Thursday in an $8 million lawsuit against her.

The California Supreme Court has joined a handful of other courts in the country that have said Breathalyzer results mean different things for different people and ruled that suspected drunken drivers can attack the test results in court.

Las Vegas plans to put solar panels on the top of carports at city buildings as part of an effort to cut the city's electrical costs.

The manager of a tug boat company has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney in Northern California for allegedly dumping dredged materials into San Francisco Bay without a permit.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Nevada will get more than $1.2 million in federal stimulus funds to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.

Most California state government offices will be closed Friday, the first of three monthly furlough days intended to save the state money.

The Housing and Urban Development Department is using $1.2 billion in stimulus money to fight homelessness in hundreds of locations across the country.

Police searching for fugitive sex offenders, violent criminals and gang members made more than 35,000 arrests nationwide during an annual monthlong crackdown - the most in the roundup's 5-year history and nearly double the number from last year - authorities announced Thursday.

Authorities say a man who allegedly slammed his chihuahua to the ground during an argument has been arrested for failing to show up at an animal cruelty hearing in Riverside.

A diet center doctor who prosecutors say ordered more than 1 million painkillers last year and sold the pills to his patients in exchange for cash has pleaded guilty to a federal drug-related charge.

Civil rights attorneys are filing a federal lawsuit claiming two classified ad companies discriminated against families with children by publishing advertisements for housing that stated kids weren't allowed.

A body found in Big Bear Lake is believed to be that of a man who vanished last week.

Federal officials in California say they've made more than 1,000 arrests as part of a national operation targeting fugitive violent criminals and sex offenders.

Two people have died in a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes.

Federal investigators say Steve Fossett apparently ran into a downdraft that was stronger than his small plane could handle before he crashed in the Sierra nearly two years ago.

A U.S. Border Patrol worker has been arrested in Escondido following a hatchet attack that left a couple seriously injured.

A body found in Big Bear Lake is believed to be that of a man who vanished while swimming last week.

Federal officials in Nevada say they made 409 felony arrests last month of fugitives sought for charges from murder to drug trafficking.

The aircrash that killed entrepreneur Steve Fossett, famed for his daredevil aerial feats, probably was caused by downdrafts that exceeded the ability of his small plane to recover before slamming into a California mountainside, federal safety officials said Thursday.

Sparks police have arrested three people in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a 32-year-old Reno woman they say was handcuffed, beaten and sexually assaulted over a period of nearly 20 hours.

A Washington watchdog group is asking federal law enforcement authorities to investigate claims that Sen. John Ensign paid more than $25,000 in severance to his former mistress and did not properly report it.