A freeway construction worker was crushed to death by a 3,000-pound steel beam early Thursday after it fell while he and others were unloading it from a big rig.

A series examining issues at stake in the election and their impact on people.
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PITTSBURGH — A generation of Americans who embraced communal living in the 1960s is again considering that concept and other ways to coexist as they near retirement.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say they've charged a 22-year-old man with stabbing and killing a man who cheered for a rival kids' football team at a postgame pizza gathering.

Police say 20 protesters have been arrested after they took over a building in San Francisco's Castro District.

The search for a car that was stolen from a home in a usually tranquil suburb of San Francisco where a retired schoolteacher was killed has come to an end outside of Seattle, and a man and his wife wanted in the unrelated shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy have been arrested, police said.

A professional clown has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after DNA evidence tied him to the 2002 rape of a 12-year-old girl he abducted while in full costume.

California's reign of pump pain is easing as prices drop for the second day in a row.

Opponents have filed a lawsuit to block a controversial subway line in San Francisco.

Authorities are trying to determine whether a bone fragment found in a Central Valley well is that of a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped nearly 24 years ago.

Authorities say a Yosemite National Park hotel worker who went missing for nearly three days is recovering after she apparently plunged 35 feet while hiking in rugged terrain.

Authorities say two undercover officers were working on a narcotics case in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles when shots were fired from a car they were following and one of the officers was hit in the leg.

An Inglewood man who allegedly stole a truck with a 2-year-old boy inside has been charged with kidnapping.

Los Angeles has agreed to open negotiations to sell struggling Ontario International Airport.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not hoping for this or expecting it, but maybe it wouldn’t be the end of the world if Mitt Romney became president.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Thursday at 120.36, up 0.54 percent from Wednesday. Advancing issues beat decliners 50 to 28, and 62 issues were unchanged.
HomeFed Corporation (OTC: HOFD) was the top dollar gainer, up $1.25 to $27.25.
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) was the top dollar loser, down 57 cents to $59.21.
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