There's a battle brewing over Southern California beach sand.

Southern California is broiling in triple-digit heat as high pressure turns the airflow offshore.

California home prices matched a nearly four-year high last month as buyers snapped up pricier homes and the supply of foreclosed homes dwindled, a research firm reported Friday.

Southern California home prices hit a four-year high in August, as buyers snapped up more expensive properties along the coast and resales of foreclosed properties kept drying up, a research firm reported this past week.

A power outage has briefly grounded the first flights out of John Wayne Airport in Southern California.

A California Highway Patrol officer gunned down during a freeway traffic stop was remembered Thursday for his friendly personality and unique sense of humor at a funeral attended by Gov. Jerry Brown and thousands of uniformed officers from across the nation.

An official of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles says a long-lost member of his congregation is the same man federal authorities say is the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited violence against U.S. embassies in the Mideast.

A central California teen has been sentenced to two years in state custody for the attempted rape of a teacher at a Fresno elementary school.

A neighbor has run into a burning Northern California house and rescued a boy who accidentally started the blaze with a lighter.

A n international team of weather experts has named California's Death Valley the hottest spot on the planet.

A man has pleaded guilty to be an accessory after the shooting death of an 18-year-old pregnant woman last April in northern San Diego County.

Investigators say a Southern California man stabbed his brother and a pregnant teenager before barricading himself in a Rowland Heights home.

There are no damage reports after an earthquake jolted rural areas of Northern California near the Oregon border.

A man who worked at a preschool in El Cajon has been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison for molesting seven children.

Escondido's police chief has been placed on paid administrative leave while undisclosed personnel matters are reviewed.

A new study says required questioning by 911 operators has been delaying the dispatching of Los Angeles paramedics and the start of life-saving CPR.

Two-time champion Steve Hinton Jr. thought the National Championship Air Races would never run again.

A parked transit bus that had its brakes fail fell from an overpass in downtown Los Angeles but no one was aboard and no one was injured.

Environmentalists get protection for endangered kangaroo rats and developers get the OK to build an industrial center in a deal ending a lengthy Southern California court fight over use of former military land.

A federal indictment unsealed Friday charged seven people with running a multistate Ponzi scheme and related mortgage fraud scams that prosecutors said cost investors and lenders a combined $17 million.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Friday at 122.42, up 0.32 percent from Thursday. Advancing issues beat decliners 48 to 33, and 59 issues were unchanged.
Life Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: LIFE) was the top dollar gainer, up $1.37 to $48.94.
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) was the top dollar loser, down $1.43 to $65.79.
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