Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a $15.2 billion budget deficit in the next fiscal year.

Los Angeles Democrat Karen Bass has been sworn in as speaker of the California Assembly, the first black woman to lead either house of the state Legislature.

Federal authorities say they have broken up one of the largest counterfeit currency rings ever uncovered in Southern California.

A suburban housewife arrested in San Diego 32 years after she escaped from a Detroit-area prison is back in Michigan to serve out at least 5 1/2 years on drug charges.

A Maricopa police officer has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of having sex with several minors in Kings County.

The city wants prostitutes and pimps banned along a nearly six-mile stretch of Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles.

Some people in parts of Santa Clara County are pretty upset about the tax notices they've been getting.

Sonoma County officials say 28,000 gallons of treated wastewater were spilled when a pipe fitting failed at a pump station.

The elderly owner of a San Diego social hall has been acquitted of first-degree murder and assault in the shooting death of a partygoer in 2006.

Blue Lake's former police chief now faces an additional 14 charges, bringing the total to 33 counts of rape, weapons possession and witness coercion.