State News

Los Angeles cold-case detectives have arrested a man charged with murdering a 65-year-old woman nearly three decades ago.

A Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people at a Watts housing project.

Members of the armed services on leave from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan will get free rides on Bay Area Rapid Transit starting in January.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has launched an investigation into whether three national leasing companies and several other businesses and individuals defrauded dozens of African American churches.

A homeless man charged with setting a small wildfire days before a massive blaze erupted in the Angeles National Forest has been sent to a mental institution.

University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fees have barricaded themselves in part of a campus building.

California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record.

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A 39-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a gang-related shooting that killed a man and wounded two others near a fire station in San Bernardino.