A former San Jose swim coach who pleaded no contest to 20 child molestation charges has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
AP - Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.
The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30 seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.
AP - For 25 years, the unsolved murder of 9-year-old Mei Leung haunted San Francisco police homicide Inspector Holly Pera, a novice patrol officer at the time who now helps solve the department's cold cases.
California Republicans spend much of their weekend convention soul-searching over the battered party's future and debating a plan of attack for 2010, when they hope to capitalize on anti-tax protests.
Danny Pang, an Orange County financier accused by federal regulators of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars, died Saturday. He was 42.
AP - Actor Tom Selleck has been awarded more than $187,000 after a California jury found the actor was duped into buying a lame horse.
AP - Beneath the stained-glass windows of a tiny white stucco church, one woman pored intently over a Bible and another wiped away tears while they prayed for an end to bloodshed in this Central California farming town.
