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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say they are trying to determine why a pickup truck driver drove on to tracks and abandoned his truck, leading to a train crash that left three cars derailed and dozens injured in Southern California.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is proposing sweeping changes in the way it protects underground drinking-water supplies from oil-and-gas operations.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland has climbed to 78 cases as the virus continues to spread.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — California will start taking driver's license applications from the nation's largest population of immigrants in the country illegally.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California prosecutors are suing Uber over the ride-booking company's background checks of drivers and other allegations.

BERKELEY, CA (AP) — Hundreds of protesters are blocking a major highway and train tracks in the latest demonstration in Northern California against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.

Two incidents in two different states left three young girls dead and three other people including two 7-year-old girls seriously injured.

It sounds like something out of a movie: a complete stranger rescues a man from a burning house and then just disappears. Well, it actually happened recently in Fresno, California.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated that he is likely to sign a bill imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags as a way to address litter.

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say 11 people had minor injuries when a commuter bus was hit by a car and smashed in the side of home in the San Francisco Bay Area.