A 30-year-old man who had been in a coma since he was in a fight at a Lake Tahoe sports bar in May has died after he was taken off life support at a long-term care facility in California.

Port of Oakland commissioners voted Thursday to place executive director Omar Benjamin on paid leave amid a growing investigation into a $4,500 strip club outing picked up by the agency.

Mojave Desert parents on Thursday chose a charter operator partnered with a local university to take over their children's failing elementary school, marking the nation's first use of a law empowering parents to drive educational reform.

Federal prosecutors say a Navy official has agreed to plead guilty to involvement in a bribery and corruption scheme at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego County.

A California judge has appointed a psychologist to help decide if an 11-year-old Elk Grove boy is competent to stand trial for severely beating his disabled mother with an extension cord.

A San Francisco doggie daycare operator has been convicted of abusing four puppies.

The pilot killed in a Northern California plane crash this week has been identified as a 75-year-old Florida man.

A 4-year-old girl who was mauled by a pit bull in San Diego County has been welcomed home by police and firefighters.

The Los Angeles Times is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District to obtain its teacher ratings.

For the second time in two days, Los Angeles police have shot and killed a man in the San Fernando Valley.

An 82-year-old woman with a decades-long rap sheet has been sentenced to prison for swiping cash from Southern California medical offices.

A fuel spill has caused a morning Los Angeles commuter nightmare with Interstate 405 traffic backed up for miles.

Crews have made progress against a wildfire in Lake County that has destroyed one residence and 10 vehicles and forced evacuations.

Oxnard police say they mistakenly killed an innocent bystander they believed was a suspect during a weekend shootout that followed a traffic stop.

The former city manager of Upland has been arrested on felony corruption charges involving the alleged misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds.

Three big-rig trucks and a car crashed on a Southern California freeway Friday, killing one person and injuring three, two of them critically.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed lower Friday at 120.56, down 1.59 percent from Thursday. Declining issues beat advancers 67 to 14, and 59 issues were unchanged.
Cymer Inc. (Nasdaq: CYMI) was the top dollar gainer, up $1.62 to $75.75.
Pricesmart Inc. (Nasdaq: PSMT) was the top dollar loser, down $3.16 to $78.95.
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