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A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman’s 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California’s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman, one of the highest profile Republican technology executives in Silicon Valley, has formed a committee to explore running for governor of California in 2010, the first official step of a campaign.

It's a scenic adventure that just begins to cover the high points.

Early on the first day of 2009, a gold Toyota Corolla exited Interstate 5 in southern San Diego County and headed west, dodging puddles and "SUBJECT TO FLOODING" signs until it reached Border Field State Park, the coastal reserve where California's coastline begins.

A woman has been arrested and a man is being sought by investigators after the pair robbed a man who solicited sex on the Internet and met the woman at a local hotel, police said.

The 'reformed reformer' wants to be governor again -- 35 years after first winning the post.

It was 1974 when Jerry Brown ran for governor as a dashing 36-year-old reformer, the embodiment of change in Watergate's aftermath.

Friends and neighbors of the pilot who safely landed a crippled jetliner in New York's Hudson River planned to give him a hero's ...

When Canada's storms freeze out the American bald eagle's preferred snacks, the canny raptors follow migrating water fowl to select California wintering grounds.

Until recently, only soldiers could take full advantage of this place.

California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3% in December, highlighting the severity of the economic slowdown as the state heads into a second year of recession.