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A report from the Public Policy Institute of California shows the poor are more likely to leave California than the wealthy.

California exports fell 25.2 percent in May, the seventh straight month of decline compared to the same period a year earlier.

North Korea has not yet sent two convicted U.S. journalists to a prison labor camp in a possible attempt to seek talks with Washington on their release, a scholar who visited the North said in an interview published Friday.

SACRAMENTO - It was only weeks ago that lawmakers, finance officials and the governor were warning that California was headed over a financial cliff.

The California Supreme Court has acknowledged that Breathalyzer results mean different things for different drivers.

Starting Friday, most state government offices will begin closing three days a month to save California some money.

The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may have a regulated market where they could sell them.

Drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood, whose crimes inspired the 2007 film Alpha Dog starring Justin Timberlake, has been found guilty of murder.

Will "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin attend Maria Shriver's annual women's conference, alongside Cindy McCain , Elizabeth Edwards and Katie Couric ? The Associated Press reports that Shriver sent an invitation to the reality TV star five months ago at the suggestion of her teenage daughters who watch the hit TLC show.

Three gay-friendly legal groups have asked to be part of a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban - a request that drew an icy reception from the activists behind the case.

A week after a new fiscal year began for the majority of U.S. states, several still lacked balanced budgets on Wednesday and a few of those were likely not to reach a deal for at least another week.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's insistence on cost-cutting measures to weed out what he has described as "waste, fraud and abuse" in California's social service programs has struck a nerve with Democrats, welfare advocates and the frail.

Negotiations over closing California's $26.3 billion deficit are on hold as Gov.

Four people were slightly injured Wednesday in the second day of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, including a Spaniard poked in the buttocks by a charging beast.

A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California -- this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state's massive budget deficit.

U.S. health officials are stepping up testing of swine flu cases for Tamiflu resistance, now that an American has come down with a resistant strain.

It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars.

A law recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries went into effect Tuesday in the nation's capital, and a D.C. councilman said he plans to follow up with a measure that would allow gay marriage ceremonies in the district.

When Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff was carted off to prison in disgrace last week, he left behind thousands of investors in financial ruin.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a key architect of the U.S. war in Vietnam under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has died at age 93, according to his family.