A girl has been shot and killed while celebrating her 16th birthday with friends at a Southern California park.

The president and provost of Stanford University who clamped down on student protests during the Vietnam War era has died.

Authorities say nine people were injured after a row boat they were in collided with a motorized boat off Marina Del Rey and was split in half.

The head of security at Dodgers Stadium is retiring and will be replaced by a former Los Angeles Police deputy chief.

Hours after their plane crashed on a steep and snowy mountainside in Idaho, a California fireman, his wife and their daughter were airlifted to safety by National Guard rescuers.

A newspaper reported Sunday that it has found records of an apparent defect in the construction of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

An Army National Guard helicopter on Sunday plucked a husband and wife and their adult daughter from a remote area in Owyhee County in southwest Idaho after their small airplane crashed.

Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday.

Crowds are forming along San Francisco's waterfront, while San Francisco Bay is crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Move over Bugsy Siegel. A descendant of Al and Ralph Capone says in a new book that the two gangsters played a much bigger role in creating Nevada's gambling empire.

San Diego police say an 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing an 11- and a 12-year-old at knifepoint.

Lighter winds aided crews at a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico's Gila National Forest, but they still were unable to stop the blaze that has raged across more than 190 square miles of mountainous forest lands since last week.

Richard Nixon called it his lucky city. Its most accomplished politician has been Pete Wilson, a former Republican mayor who became a U.S. senator and two-term California governor.

Ground crews with air support are surrounding a stubborn wildfire that has burned through 5,321 acres of grass and brush in rural San Diego County.

California lawmakers have a hard time agreeing on most budget matters, but the effort to keep state parks open is encouraging rare bipartisan deal-making.