CARSON CITY, Nev. A state panel voted Tuesday to pay the Nevada Highway Patrol's top female trooper $480,000 to settle a federal civil rights case alleging sexual harassment and misconduct by former patrol officials.
The Board of Examiners, chaired by Gov. Jim Gibbons, approved the payment to Capt. Jacquelyn Sandage, who filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in late 2006 alleging sexual harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation and other claims.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A Maricopa police officer has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of having sex with several minors in Kings County.
Thirty-year-old Garry Ferguson was arrested May 3 in Bakersfield and is being held on $500,000 bail.
MOUNT BALDY VILLAGE, Calif. A wildfire burned through thick chaparral on towering Mount Baldy in the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday, prompting an evacuation order covering a handful of homes in a remote canyon.
The fire had burned 30 to 35 acres of brush, Los Angeles County fire Inspector Sam Padilla said.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape.
SAN JOSE, Calif. Some people in parts of Santa Clara County are pretty upset about the tax notices they've been getting.
CHESTER, Calif. A Northern California mother is mourning the loss of her son and daughter in separate weekend tragedies, after her son died in the hospital Tuesday morning.
LOS ANGELES The city wants prostitutes and pimps banned along a nearly six-mile stretch of Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles.
GUALALA, Calif. Sonoma County officials say 28,000 gallons of treated wastewater were spilled when a pipe fitting failed at a pump station.
SAN DIEGO The elderly owner of a San Diego social hall has been acquitted of first-degree murder and assault in the shooting death of a partygoer in 2006.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. A San Quentin chaplain accused of choking his wife with an electrical cord is due back in court later this month after being arraigned Monday.
EUREKA, Calif. Blue Lake's former police chief now faces an additional 14 charges, bringing the total to 33 counts of rape, weapons possession and witness coercion.
LAS VEGAS Police say an autopsy should show whether a baby was alive before its body was found dead in the trash at a women's restroom at a Las Vegas Strip casino.
SAN DIEGO A surfer beaten to death in La Jolla last year by street thugs tried in vain to fight off his attackers.
REDLANDS, Calif. A diseased coyote was captured and euthanized a day after the animal was seen stalking a toddler in a Redlands neighborhood.
SAN JACINTO, Calif. An hour-long gun battle on an Indian reservation ended when Riverside County sheriff's deputies shot and killed two people who had fired at them with automatic weapons.
LOS ANGELES Vandals slashed tires on up to 100 vehicles in San Pedro.
SAN JOSE, Calif. San Jose police say officers responding to a report of a shooting didn't find a shooting victim, but instead discovered a massive marijuana-growing operation.
UKIAH, Calif. Law enforcement officials are crediting a tip with helping them track down a Santa Rosa man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend to death.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is examining whether a Huntington Beach woman had criminal intent when she turned her dog on a mail carrier - who turned out to be former Olympic medal-winning swimmer Shirley Babashoff.
OAKLAND, Calif. People throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties are facing the prospect of having to cut down on how much water they use.
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