TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) -- A jury has convicted a man of strangling two women and a teenage girl at their homes in the Athens-area of Los Angeles in 1999 and 2000....

PLYMOUTH, Mich. (AP) -- A California woman captured more than 30 years after she escaped from a Michigan prison is "extremely uncomfortable" back behind bars and wants to move the case through the courts as quickly as possible, her attorney said Monday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The FBI is investigating whether a retired Pasadena police officer is the so-called "Polite Bandit" who was responsible for a string of robberies in 2006, authorities said....

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- A top Republican lawmaker walked out of budget negotiations Tuesday with Democrats and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he is upset about their plans to raise taxes....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A defense lawyer said Tuesday that he was worried about the health of a man jailed for more than a year awaiting trial on charges that he sprayed a Las Vegas Strip casino with gunfire....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Representatives from corporate giants Google Inc. and General Electric Co. said Tuesday that transitioning the United States to renewable energy on a large scale would be possible - if renewable energy were cheaper....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge has blocked a 10 percent cut in Medi-Cal payments to doctors, dentists, pharmacies and many other health care providers....

REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A Shasta County jury has convicted a man of stabbing his stepfather to death during an argument....

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Electric and hybrid vehicles may be good for the environment, but a California lawmaker says they're bad news for the blind....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit....