The California High-Speed Rail Authority voted Monday to issue nearly $8.6 billion in taxpayer-approved bonds to build the nation's first bullet train.

An ad from 1957 shows a family playing dominoes in a bubble-top car as it cruises down an eight-lane divided highway, its steering wheel pointedly unattended. “One day your car may speed along an electric super-highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road,” reads the copy. “Highways will be made safe — by electricity! No traffic jams ... no collisions ... no driver fatigue.”

Three people were killed in a head-on collision in Northern California near Jamestown.

Santa Barbara sheriff's detectives have arrested five alleged members of an outlaw motorcycle club on suspicion of firearms possession and gang enhancements.

The San Francisco Symphony says a musician's strike is forcing the cancellation of this coming week's East Coast tour.

Authorities say a 49-year-old Fresno man died after he skied off a trail in Sierra National Forest and hit a tree stump.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of shooting a Fullerton police officer during a traffic stop.

Police are looking for an attacker who stabbed a man four times in the back on the dance floor of a San Diego nightclub. City News Service says it happened at around 12:30 a.m. Monday at the F6ix club in the city's Gaslamp Quarter.

The body of a convicted graffiti tagger has been found over the weekend and police believe he fell to his death after spray-painting a bridge.

Southern California Edison officials now say they don't know what caused a power surge that fried appliances in 150 Riverside County homes.

Disneyland says children under 14 must have an older person with them when they enter the Magic Kingdom, beginning Saturday.

Authorities have found about $4 million worth of marijuana next to a panga boat at a beach in Santa Barbara County.

Mendocino County officials and the U.S. attorney for Northern California may be trying to resolve their long-running dispute over records from the county's medical marijuana program out of court

California public health officials have lifted the quarantine covering recreationally harvested mussels on the state's North Coast.

A document attributed to a woman charged in the death of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife identifies her as a participant in a beating and asphyxiation and says her co-defendant should not be charged with a crime, a detective testified Monday.

A prosecutor told jurors Monday he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against a German immigrant who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed lower Monday at 139.28, down 0.50 percent from Friday. Declining issues beat advancers 66 to 33, and 137 issues were unchanged.
Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: IMMY) was the top dollar gainer, up 46 cents to $5.99.
ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW) was the top dollar loser, down $1.47 to $35.63.
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