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- A large former ranch on the California coast is being transferred to state and federal ownership, officials say. The state Coastal Commission approved an agreement Thursday to preserve the former Coast Dairies ranch, the Los Angeles Times reported. The tract, one of the largest pieces of...

Toronto city council voted late Tuesday to send three of its elephants to a sanctuary in California. More...

(CNN) -- A 3-month-old boy was killed Sunday during a triple-shooting in California, according to the East Palo Alto police department. The incident left the child's mother and father wounded with injuries that are serious but not life-threatening, police said in a statement. The victims had...

Los Angeles (CNN) -- California officials said Tuesday they won't arbitrarily free 33,000 inmates and they will submit plans to the federal courts in two weeks specifying ways to remedy prison overcrowding under a U.S. Supreme Court order this week. "The goal is not to release anybody early,"...

LOS ANGELES, -- Illegal use of disabled parking passes has become a common infraction in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says. Currently in California, 1-in-10 drivers have disabled parking placards and transportation experts say abuse is common, the Los Angeles Times...

Schwarzenegger, Shriver separating after 25 years It was a storybook marriage in 1986 on a spring weekend on Cape Cod that united a princess of an American political dynasty, Maria Shriver, and the gap-toothed muscle-clad movie star famous enough to be known by one name, Arnold. In many...

Authorities say they found a body in a canal that matches the description of a California boy who went missing. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2011/02/01/bts.body.found.in.canal.kxtv

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/31/nd.storm.accident.kxjb A strong storm system made driving dangerous in the Rockies and the upper Plains and contributed to a pileup involving about 100 vehicles Thursday near Fargo, North Dakota, officials said. "It is not fit for anyone to be out...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/weather/2010/12/23/irpt.natpkg.ca.mud.flood.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/weather/2010/12/23/dnt.flood.destroys.home.kutv Los Angeles -- Rain-soaked residents of California will get a brief reprieve Friday from the storms that inundated the state for most of...

The latest legal battle over same-sex marriage is in the hands of a panel of California federal appeals court judges. Proposition 8, a 2008 measure approved by California voters that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was the focal point of Monday's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/11/14/ca.motorcycle.crash.cnn Investigators checked cameras at California-Mexico border crossings Monday in their search for a driver who is believed to have caused a weekend crash that killed five people on a California desert highway. A Dodge Avenger...

Five people were killed and six others seriously injured when a car struck a group of 12 motorcycles on a California desert highway Saturday. "I was one of the first emergency officials on the scene. Of my 23 years on the department, it was the most devastating scene I've been to and I've seen...

SAN DIEGO, California - U.S. border police have found a sophisticated drug smugglers' tunnel the length of six football fields linking Southern California with Mexico and arrested two people, authorities said on Wednesday. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said the tunnel ran...

LOS ANGELES – Antonio Margarito can only say he's sorry so many times. His penitence long ago turned into frustration, and he takes it out on every sparring partner, each conditioning drill, every heavy bag he punches into submission while preparing to face Manny Pacquiao. Nearly two years...

As Election Day gets closer, the rhetoric gets more intense, interesting and, shall we say, passionate. Here are some things that you might have missed. Wigged out The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission ruled that Joan Heffington, the unsuccessful candidate in the state's GOP gubernatorial...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/10/21/bts.wa.obama.murray.cnn San Francisco, California - President Obama will wake up in San Francisco, California, on Friday amid a five-state, four-day tour aimed at propping up embattled key Senate incumbents. Obama will fly to Los Angeles...

Eight former or current officials of Bell, California, who have been accused of stealing city funds, are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. The original arraignment had been scheduled for September, but was postponed after a defense attorney asked for more time. The officials are accused of...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers not to eat mamey-flavored ice cream sold under the La Nuestra brand because of potential health risks. Montalvan's Sales Inc. of Ontario, California, which sells the brand, has voluntarily recalled the product, the FDA said. The ice...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered "bodies everywhere" moments after sailing off a jump at a California race Saturday, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses...

Stigma keeps many from mental health help LOS ANGELES, About 20 percent of residents of California report a need for mental health services, while one in 25 report serious psychological distress, researchers found. Lead author David Grant, director of the California Health Interview Survey at...