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Share + Nov 5, 2009 8:00 am US/Pacific NEW YORK 1 of 4 Miss California Carrie Prejean participates in the 2009 Miss USA Pageant on May 13, 2009.

Another former SK Foods executive has been charged in Sacramento federal court, the latest expansion of a sprawling case of fraud, bribery and price fixing in the tomato-processing industry.

The state Office of the Inspector General will publicly release the findings of a special review Wednesday that includes parole information about kidnapping and rape suspect Phillip Garrido.

The legal war between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers is over.

The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling companies.

The family of 65-year-old Robert Lee Adams made an emotional plea to the public last August.

USC President Steven B. Sample, who dramatically boosted the university's academic prestige, financial resources and civic engagement during nearly 19 years as its leader, says he will step down from the post next summer.

Q: My 20-year-old Meyer lemon tree has fruit that has decreased in size with yellowed leaves and some twig dieback.

Demand for rooftop solar systems reached a record peak last month in Southern California Edison's service area, with the utility receiving 547 applications for homes, businesses and apartment and condo complexes, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.

A former usher for University of Southern California football games has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing a USC film student over a clanging gate.

A pharmaceutical billionaire is offering to provide University of California regents with a $100 million guaranty in support of the county's proposal to reopen Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in South Los Angeles.

The unemployment rate fell in September in most metro areas, although that's largely because more people gave up on job searches than found new work.

Maria Shriver has long sought to protect her privacy as California's First Lady, but today she brought thousands to tears with an extraordinary evocation of her grief two months after the death of her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

The Conference Board almost gleefully reported this morning that its consumer confidence index fell in October for the second consecutive month.

With a handheld video camera, a computer and 800 cows, Barbara Martin is letting the world into her life as a dairy operator.

Furloughing employees at 24-hour care facilities could end up costing more in the long run than it saves in the short term, according to a study released this month by the state Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes.

Eight people in Long Beach were recovering Saturday after being hospitalized with a rare form of typhus that's spread by fleas.

Lohan's house was broken into in August, while The Hills star Patridge's property was targeted in a similar crime in February.

Federal authorities have arrested a State Department employee suspected of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks on contracts for Iraq reconstruction work.

A federal judicial panel has rejected the Schwarzenegger administration's plan for reducing California's prison population because it failed to meet the terms of an earlier court order.