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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have fired Jayce Tingler, who presided over the biggest collapse in…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Toy companies are racing to get their toys onto store shelves ahead of the holidays…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have fired manager Jayce Tingler after just two season in…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer NFL and network executives expected ratings to increase this season. But the rate through the first four weeks has…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The first trial in the sweeping college admissions bribery scandal will soon be in the hands…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane is being investigated on allegations that he used a…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says Wednesday that she plans to resentence Scott Peterson to life in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers left pitcher Walker Buehler off their roster for the one-game wild-card playoff against the St. Louis…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles approves one of nation’s strictest vaccine orders, requiring proof of shots to enter most indoor…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” The tech giant on Wednesday…

By The Associated Press The Seattle Seahawks host the Los Angeles Rams in a key NFC West showdown on Thursday night. The Rams took their first loss…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man who owned a Southern California pharmacy was sentenced to over five years in prison after he admitted submitting…

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Southern California woman shot by police during a confrontation was armed with a knife. Police in Simi…

LONDON (AP) — Facebook blamed a error during routine maintenance for causing a massive global outage that took down its services for hours. In an…

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman accused of starting a wildfire in Northern California that destroyed dozens of homes last month will be…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Oil spilling into federal waters off California’s coast has…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quinton Byfield, the second overall pick in the 2020 NHL draft, suffered a lower body injury during the third period of the Los…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The fans are back and the crowds are loud, but home-field advantage still isn’t a factor early in this NFL…

By The Associated Press A capsule look at the National League wild-card game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles leaders have voted to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates.…

By HAVEN DALEY BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Some residents in the drought-parched U.S. West are turning to pricey machines that developers say can…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A massive cargo ship made a series of…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A probe is continuing into what caused an offshore pipeline break that spilled tens of…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Amplify Energy’s emergency response plan for a major oil spill like the one unfolding in coastal Southern…

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks after surviving a midterm recall election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday vetoed for the…

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — TCU transfer running back Darwin Barlow helped Southern California find a balance between the…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have required state contractors to prove…

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will soon streamline and extend its assisted death law. A bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ended mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new laws aimed at tightening security at the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Amplify Energy’s emergency response plan for a major oil spill like the one unfolding in coastal Southern…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neither the St. Louis Cardinals nor the Los Angeles Dodgers wanted to be playing in the NL…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks welcome the Rams this week with an offense led by coordinator Shane…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The recent opening of five new residential developments has added nearly 300 affordable housing units for workers in Truckee,…

By MARCY GORDON and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say four companies will pay nearly $78 million to clean up contaminated groundwater at two Los Angeles-area toxic…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants battled the Los Angeles Dodgers until the end of the season to…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robert Altman, a photojournalist who captured San Francisco’s burgeoning counterculture of the 1960s and became chief staff…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams had the NFL’s top defense in 2020, and a certain amount of…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians will soon have a better idea of what’s headed for landfills instead of…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A Navy jet fighter has crashed in Death Valley National Park and authorities say the pilot ejected and…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Retired Belmont men’s basketball coach Rick Byrd will receive the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching award. His selection…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are finally getting their day in the sun. They face off in the next edition of…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has tossed out California’s ban on privately owned immigration…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Arizona is being remembered as a…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Divers find underwater Southern California oil pipeline responsible for major spill was split open, apparently…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer The kneejerk reaction to Oregon’s loss to Stanford was that the Pac-12′s College Football Playoff hopes were…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Coast Guard says initial reports of Southern California oil spill weren’t enough to send out boats to look for…