LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The superintendents of three Los Angeles County school districts are planning a joint appeal to their Los Angeles Unified counterpart in a bid to keep some 3,000 city students who collectively bring in millions of dollars in state funding to their districts....

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Police have identified nine women who appear in more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker and they are all alive....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California parole officials have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after several recent high-profile lapses....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully was released from the hospital Friday after bumping his head, and is looking forward to broadcasting a Dodgers exhibition game this weekend....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Dodgers say Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully is out of the hospital after bumping his head during a fall....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her....

LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) -- Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California watchdog group says nursing assistants who lost their certification still found work caring for the elderly by hopping between arms of the same state agency....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A retired lieutenant from the California Highway Patrol was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and five years of probation for attempting unlawful sex with a fictitious 13-year-old girl, and prosecutors lashed out at the judge for his leniency....