NEW YORK (AP) -- Jim Tracy was out of baseball when Clint Hurdle called last October to talk to him about joining Hurdle's staff in Colorado. Tracy was focused on his duties as bench coach for the Rockies when he came to spring training....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is blasting its way into entertainment history....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A lawyer says an 86-year-old Las Vegas man will plead guilty to fatally shooting his 80-year-old wife last September in a botched suicide pact....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Academy Awards overseers have chosen an entertainment veteran to direct the next Oscar show....

Home sales, median prices in October compared to a year ago in selected California counties:...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The median home price in Southern California rose nearly 2 percent last month from September, as the inventory of homes for sale continued to shrink and lenders worked to avoid fresh foreclosures, a tracking firm said Tuesday....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas plans to lay off 19 employees, and City Council members are beginning to consider ways to deal with a projected budget shortfall of more than $400 million over the next five years....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- 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....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday....