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A Republican assemblyman says he was refused membership in the California Latino Legislative Caucus and now the state attorney general has been asked to investigate the group and its policies.

Two are accused of slaughtering their families. One is a dangerous child molester who escaped from custody.

We're starting to hear a lot about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles from Hyundai, Toyota, and Honda-and we're going to hear a great deal more about them in the years to come.

Furious after discovering that their longtime doctors weren't part of their new Anthem Blue Cross plans under the federal health care law, many Bay Area residents didn't just get mad.

Two Californians face federal charges after allegedly freeing 2,000 minks from cages on an Illinois farm and spray-painting "Liberation is Love" on the side of a barn.

Georgia authorities are re-examining the 2013 heroin death of a bar owner dating the woman charged in the overdose death of a Google executive on a yacht in California, police said Thursday.

In this case, there's no evidence that data has been misappropriated, but millions of Californians have had private data compromised in recent years.

Christopher Hubbart, a sexually violent predator dubbed the 'Pillowcase Rapist,' has spent nearly two decades in mental institutions after admitting to sexually assaulting more than three dozen women throughout California between 1971 and 1982.

Ivory Rose Miller, 31, of Willits, arrested on suspicion of petty theft, being under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and violating probation.

CULVER CITY >> Something strange happened to Carlos Duarte the day he attended an Emerging Leaders Academy eight weeks ago largely to get a glimpse of some pretty ladies.

A coalition of immigrant rights advocacy groups sued the federal government Wednesday, saying the vast majority of minors in deportation proceedings lack legal representation.

Water regulators are set to consider the draft emergency regulations when they meet in Sacramento next week, invoking for the first time mandatory statewide restrictions on residential outdoor water use.

As pot dealers in Washington sell their first legal joints Tuesday, marijuana activists are targeting as many as 14 more states over the next two years.

Government officials say workers cleaning a storage room at a research center made a startling discovery last week - decades-old vials of smallpox forgotten in a cardboard box.

Wasting water outdoors amid the state's drought will cost Californians up to $500 a day for violations under get-tough restrictions being proposed by state regulators.

Two brothers are set to be arraigned in a Central California courtroom on murder charges in the death of a Good Samaritan who was run over after trying to rescue a woman who was being assaulted.

It's hard to keep up with the social and political hurly-burly of the Middle East, but U.S. TV producer Howard Gordon got a hit out of it with "Homeland" and hopes to do the same with new series "Tyrant", even if it requires last-minute tweaks.

Could this be the specialist who treated his ailing father years ago in San Francisco? Turns out it was the same surgeon, but he had moved out of state long before.

Patrons use computers at the Hayward Library Tech Lab on Monday, July 7, 2014 in Hayward, Calif.

Los Angeles has crumbled, and our new friends Cal and Frida have bolted. They now live in the wilderness in an unknown, unsure state of strange existence.