State News

SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say a small plane has crashed in a lagoon off San Francisco Bay....

SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say a small plane has crashed in a lagoon off San Francisco Bay....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police have identified the owner of a trunk in which the mummified remains of a baby and a fetus were found....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary when the Democratic congresswoman he's trying to unseat released a scathing TV ad branding him "a risk" who would gamble away people's retirement savings....

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- A 9-year-old boy ran to get cash from his mother's purse to appease an armed intruder, but when he returned the man was stabbing his parents with a kitchen knife in the bedroom, according to recently released search warrants in the triple murder case....

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) -- A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was believed to be among the dead....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has been dismissed as a potential juror in a child molestation trail expected to last a month....

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Don Fosburg recalled friends and family killed in World War II as he marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the conflict on Thursday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Unified School District board has endorsed the controversial system of using student scores on standardized tests as a way to measure teacher performance....

CAMPO, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters hope cool coastal air overnight will help calm the wildfire that has chewed through 719 acres of rural San Diego County....