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The sale of financially troubled Landmark Medical Center to a for-profit California-based hospital system is complete.

Mexican license plates are common in parking lots of shopping malls in U.S. border cities. They will be even more familiar after Mexico raises its federal sales tax in border regions to match the rest of the country, say merchants and shoppers.

A fire at an abandoned Southern California bowling alley is sending up huge clouds of smoke and dozens of firefighters are battling the blaze.

A former West Texas priest has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting a young male parishioner who attended the Church of the Holy Spirit in Tulia.

Maryland environmental officials are asking residents to snap pictures of high tides along the state's shoreline as part of an effort to document the effects of climate change.

A swath of California closed out 2013 as the driest year on record, marked by above-normal temperatures and thirsty reservoirs.

Police plan to beef up security measures for the 125th Rose Parade in the wake of bombings at the Boston Marathon.

A gang member who was 13 years old when a Carson woman was killed is scheduled to be released from a juvenile facility two years earlier than expected, angering the victim's family.

A judge in Orange County has refused to hold Costa Mesa's mayor pro tem in contempt of court for revealing confidential information that someone placed a tracking device on his truck during the 2012 election season.

An unusual personal injury lawsuit in California against a University of Iowa pharmaceutical lab has cost the school thousands of dollars in legal fees, and that figure is rising, records show.

Police in San Francisco say one officer was injured and a man is in custody after officers opened fire on the suspect during a wild high-speed chase across the city.

A big pothole on a Los Angeles freeway interchange damaged dozens of vehicles on Tuesday and forced its closure for at least several hours.

A consultant hired to find a new Oakland police chief has stepped aside citing that city officials were meddling in the selection process.

U.S. home prices rose in October from the previous year at the fastest pace in almost eight years. But price gains slowed in most U.S. cities from September to October, suggesting the increases are leveling off.

Your daily look at late-breaking California news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

More than three dozen San Francisco restaurants have resolved allegations that they exploited a city program by keeping customer surcharges that were meant for employee health care.

A company owned by the Navajo Nation finished its purchase of a northwestern New Mexico coal mine the same day an Arizona utility took ownership of a California utility's stake in a power plant that gets its fuel from the mine.

A man apparently killed a woman and then killed their two children before turning the gun on himself in a Southern California home, police said Tuesday.

San Diego police say law enforcement officers shot a murder suspect who attempted to flee in his car.

A Southern California man accused of drunkenly crashing his car into a sleeping man's bedroom and killing him has been charged with one felony count of murder.

The family of a girl who was declared brain dead after tonsil surgery received another reprieve Monday from a judge who ordered the 13-year-old to be kept on life support for another week.

A 32-year-old Hollywood man accused of prank calling athletic coaches with job offers for professional and college teams has pleaded not guilty to charges of eavesdropping.

A judge has dismissed all claims against the cities of Los Angeles and Riverside by a camp ranger who felt he deserved reward money for helping locate fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner.

California's political watchdog agency said Monday it has declined to open an investigation into a lawmaker whose name surfaced in an ongoing federal investigation of a state senator.

The number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms in 2013 fell to levels not seen since the 19th century, according to a report released Monday.

Authorities say they arrested six teens accused of posing as Southern California police officers and ordering people out of their cars by using megaphones and high-powered flashlights to obscure their real identity.

The cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica have approved more than a dozen construction projects over the past decade on or around two faults without seismic studies to find out whether the buildings could be destroyed in an earthquake.

Two Los Angeles-area fathers have been reunited with their sons whose mother allegedly failed to return them after a trip to Europe.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has suspended burn permits, citing dry conditions and a sharp increase in vegetation fires.