In a move that is raising concern about limiting access to public documents, California courts could charge $10 for each record search under a proposal included in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget.

and some 700 people, many of them Ferrari owners already, have registered interest meaning a tough selection process. It has a top speed in excess of 350 kilometers per hour (217.4 mph). The price tag: €1 million ($1.3 million).

A Northern California judge has ruled that private text messages, emails and other electronic communications sent and received by San Jose officials about city affairs are public records.

Ten years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Americans, Iraqis and others are asking whether the past decade of U.S. involvement in Iraq was worth it.

University of California faculty leaders have endorsed an open letter that opposes legislation to allow public college students to earn degree credits for online courses from outside education providers, officials said Tuesday.

California's jobless rate stalled at 9.8 percent this winter, with only a few new jobs created in January.

A drunken-driving case against a San Diego police detective has grown into a criminal investigation involving four other officers called to the scene that night before a formal investigation was launched.

San Diego's mayor has ordered a two-month nighttime shutdown of a beach after cameras set up to monitor a seal colony captured people kicking, punching and sitting on top of mother seals and their pups.

A suspected bank robber released from jail earlier this month is back in custody again after being arrested in Vallejo, officials said.

Officials are reporting the fourth fatality on Caltrain tracks this year.

The family of a San Jose State University student reported missing after he was last seen in a remote park in the Santa Cruz Mountains says he has been found safe.

Los Angeles' financially troubled Museum of Contemporary Art has apparently turned down a merger offer from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The widow of a veteran Oakland Tribune journalist who was struck and killed by a San Francisco Muni train four years ago has been awarded a $900,000 wrongful death settlement.

Two people who collected unemployment benefits for an imprisoned Southern California killer will end up behind bars themselves.

Authorities have confirmed that a body found in a Southern California field is that of a missing nurse whose husband has been charged with her murder.

his guitar.

A judge has assigned two doctors to determine if a Wyoming man charged with stealing a luxury yacht and running it aground in Northern California is mentally fit for trial.

A San Diego woman whose pit bull killed a neighbor has died while awaiting sentencing for involuntary manslaughter.

to Newport Beach.

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is fond of boasting that not one of India’s almost 180 million Muslims has been discovered to be a member of al-Qaeda.

Two homes have been destroyed and a third damaged in an early morning fire on an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco.

The Supreme Court can choose from a wide array of outcomes in ruling on California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Five former elected officials of the small, blue-collar California city of Bell were convicted Wednesday of multiple counts of misappropriating public funds by paying themselves huge salaries while raising taxes on residents.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Wednesday at 140.60, up 0.92 percent from Tuesday. Advancing issues beat decliners 68 to 30, and 138 issues were unchanged.
Pricesmart Inc. (Nasdaq: PSMT) was the top dollar gainer, up $2.39 to $77.83.
Maxwell Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) was the top dollar loser, down $1.53 to $5.91.
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