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A key House panel late Thursday gave the back of its hand to California's embattled high-speed rail program.

In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 file photo, Heather Peters, who says her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid never achieved the gas mileage Honda claimed in its advertising, and also did a computer upgrade that further diminished the mileage, please her case in Small Claims Court in Torrrance, Calif., Tuesday, Jan.

The former California governor traveled to the Indian city of Agra on Friday, the one day each week the monument is closed to tourists because of Muslim prayers at a nearby mosque.

One-by-one, college recruiters from Hawai'i to Vermont stood in front of college-bound students and their parents at Dougherty Valley High on Tuesday night.

Officials with the California Fish and Game Commission have rejected changes to striped bass regulations, which farmers had sought to gain more access to water.

The renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday over its decision to cut breast screening grants to Planned Parenthood.

A Central California teacher accused of molesting a student and recording the abuse on his cellphone has pleaded not guilty in the case.

Members of Congress are pressing for hearings on the military's efforts to prevent hazing in the ranks.

Federal regulators said Thursday that unusual wear has been found on dozens of virtually new tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California's San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant.

A California congresswoman wants an independent investigator to determine whether a federal park ranger used excessive force when she used a stun gun on a man walking his dogs.

In this Jan. 18, 2012 file photo, Gov. Jerry Brown leaves the Assembly after he delivered his State of the State address before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.

' The California Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday criticized Southern California Edison's response to a windstorm that left broad swaths of the Southwest without electricity last year.

California's attorney general says a judge should deny the latest appeal of assassin Sirhan Sirhan saying the man long-convicted in the murder of Sen.

Wind turbines are photographed in the Altamont Pass area east of Livermore, Calif.

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There's a glass case in a room on Graceland's first floor that holds a small white fur coat, a photo album of Elvis Presley's family, and a blue record player used by his daughter, Lisa Marie.

If anyone is tired of the daily European soap opera with surrealistic tragicomic overtones, they can simply shift their gaze to the 8th largest economy in the world: the insolvent state of California, whose controller just told legislators has just over a month worth of cash left.

That's set to change after first lady Michelle Obama visits the site of a future Northgate Gonzalez Market in Inglewood on Wednesday to showcase efforts being made to draw grocers to low-income neighborhoods.

Police say a 10-year-old Southern California boy has been arrested for pointing a toy gun at a Burbank grandmother who believed the weapon was real.

A California man has pleaded guilty to his role in a mortgage scheme that defrauded a western Missouri bank of more than $8.5 million.