A civil rights group is ending a 12-year-old discrimination lawsuit over San Diego's leasing of city property to the Boy Scouts of America.

Some of Paul Ryan’s biggest fans are disappointed in his latest budget.

When President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet this week for what will almost certainly be an intense and lengthy conversation about Iran’s nuclear program, it will be the president, not the prime minister, who drives the discussion.

At various times in history, members of the U.S. Senate have adopted one of three positions with respect to presidential nominees for the federal judiciary:

A San Francisco-based Japanese diplomat who pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges was ordered Monday to serve a year in jail.

Authorities say a school bus rolled backward and hit a 5-year-old girl outside a Riverside County school, leaving her seriously injured.

Prosecutors say 20 members of a Los Angeles gang pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges of running a food-truck extortion racket in Hollywood.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on Monday demanded that San Bernardino County school district officials step in to end discrimination against gay students by teachers and administrators at a district high school.

Sacramento police say a woman was shot in the leg when an argument between two men turned violent in the city's Land Park neighborhood Monday evening.

The organization that pushed for requiring condoms on Los Angeles County porn shoots says it has filed its first complaint of a violation.

California has spent billions of dollars and endured years of federal lawsuits to improve conditions in its state prisons, but the problems it has been trying to correct are now trickling down to local governments as county jails deal with thousands of additional inmates.

The public is invited to an open house to discuss a proposal to base Navy F-35C fighter jets in Kings County beginning in 2017.

Authorities say they've arrested a suspect in the fatal attack on a 77-year-old newspaper vendor who was an early-morning fixture near a San Francisco BART station.

Los Angeles police have shot and wounded a man during a shootout.

The mother of a special needs college student who was shot to death in a South Los Angeles park has filed a claim for $35 million in damages against the city.

The parents of a California State University, Fresno freshman who died in 2012 of alcohol poising while pledging for a fraternity have filed a wrongful death suit against the fraternity and several of its members.

A federal judge says a lawsuit filed by inmates in a Northern California prison alleging their solitary confinement conditions are unconstitutional can proceed.

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Will Shinzo Abe’s plan to revive Japan suffer the magazine-cover curse? Might Benigno Aquino meet the same fate in the Philippines?

Police say a 74-year-old Northern California man called 911 to report his own death moments before he shot and killed himself outside a hospital.

nearly a decade after the old contract expired.

Republican state lawmakers are pushing more than a dozen bills to address problems they say have resulted from Gov. Jerry Brown's prison realignment plan, which sends inmates convicted of lower-level crimes to county jails instead of state prisons.

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A former California fund manager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in an investment scam.

The Supreme Court will release audio recordings of next week's arguments in two gay marriage cases just a few hours after they conclude.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Tuesday at 139.32, up 0.03 percent from Monday. Declining issues beat advancers 57 to 44, and 135 issues were unchanged.
Santarus Inc. (Nasdaq: SNTS) was the top dollar gainer, up 72 cents to $17.34.
ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW) was the top dollar loser, down $1.17 to $34.46.
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