State News

Birth control for buffaloes?

California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record.

Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided that an independent state pay commission can reduce the salaries of California elected officials during the middle of their terms in office.

The director of the Miss California USA pageant who became embroiled in a nasty war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.

California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.

About 300 people gathered at Camp Pendleton's chapel to honor two Marines who were killed in a collision with a Coast Guard airplane off the San Diego coast.

State and federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged securities scam that cheated dozens of people out of $17 million.

Marines will gather for a memorial service at Camp Pendleton for two men killed last month when their Marine helicopter collided with a Coast Guard plane.

A strong storm expected Friday and Saturday could drop more than a foot of snow at the highest elevations of the Sierra.

Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.