A 19-year-old high school student has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to rape a teacher at his Redwood City charter school.

Federal authorities say two women have been charged with trying to smuggle cocaine inside pouches of salad dressing and syrup as they passed through Los Angeles International Airport.

A San Francisco man who had posted on a social networking site that he planned to provoke the police into killing him, an act known as "blue suicide" or "suicide by cop," has been hospitalized following a confrontation in which officers were able to subdue him without firing their weapons.

These California lotteries were drawn Wednesday:

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:

A former Camp Pendleton Marine has been convicted in a 2009 crash that killed a fellow Marine and injured two others in Orange County.

Six animals - two cats and four dogs - have perished in a fire that destroyed a Santa Rosa house but spared a medical marijuana growing operation in the garage.

Ground was broken Wednesday on a multimillion-dollar renovation of Honda Center, home to the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, that will be the most extensive upgrade since the arena opened in 1993.

Aaron Urbanus scored 21 points, Brandon Provost added 17 and Texas-Pan American used a late run to beat Cal State Bakersfield 73-67 in a nonconference game Wednesday night.

The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:

The Los Angeles Sparks signed four-time WNBA All-Star Alana Beard to a free-agent contract.

Searchers following a map prepared by a serial killer on California's death row have unearthed human remains that could be one of his victims.

Authorities have released the name of a Camp Pendleton Marine shot to death by an Orange County sheriff's deputy in the San Clemente High School parking lot.

An expected matchup between two of the NBA's best young point guards never happened.

A naked man who climbed to the top of a communications tower in downtown Los Angeles and sat there for nearly six hours is back on solid ground.

A San Diego sports radio host said Wednesday he made "stupid" comments about a female broadcaster on his show last month and wants to apologize to her because it's the right thing to do.

Investigators are looking for bodies on a property in rural Calaveras County that used to belong to the parents of a convicted serial killer.

Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season.

A woman who stabbed her Navy doctor husband in bed after discovering he was having an affair was convicted of second-degree murder Wednesday.

Stanford University's latest five-year fundraising drive netted $6.2 billion, the largest amount ever raised in a higher education campaign, school officials said Wednesday.

There is plenty of evidence that this is a Ryder Cup year.

A judge has granted Katy Perry and Russell Brand a divorce, although the pair won't be legally split up until July.

Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.

A father who took out a restraining order against a 10-year-old boy accused of threatening his son with a knife has reached a deal that will keep the kids at separate schools

Cavaliers rookie Kyrie Irving has his first NBA injury - a concussion.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday significantly expanded a long-running trade secrets case when they unsealed an indictment that accuses a company owned by the Chinese government of conspiring with a California couple to steal trade secrets from DuPont Co.

A county commission voted down a grass-roots movement's effort Wednesday to make East Los Angeles its own city, blocking a years-long effort to give democratic control to the cultural home of Southern California's Mexican-American community.

U.S. states reached a landmark $25 billion deal Thursday with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst.

Chauncey Billups will only watch as the Clippers continue their promising season without him.

A mentally ill Fresno man who admitted fatally stabbing his aunt and a stranger in separate incidents has been sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.

Padraig Harrington has been coming to the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for a half-dozen years, for reasons that cause some players to stay away.

Nick Rolovich, who orchestrated one of the top passing attacks in the NCAA as offensive coordinator at Hawaii the past two seasons, has been hired for the same job at Nevada.

An online journalism startup and the nation's oldest investigative news nonprofit are planning a merger, the two organizations revealed this week.

An effort to free whales from SeaWorld by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday.

The former mayor of the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district to make dough for his home pizza oven.

A Southern California man has been charged with murdering his pregnant wife during an argument at their Monterey Park home.

Paul McCartney will debut the songs from his new album "Kisses on the Bottom" in a free live streaming performance on iTunes.

Lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District on behalf of three girls who say they were inappropriately touched by a former teacher accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children at an elementary school.