SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Bronny James was on the court with his No. 23 Southern California teammates for pregame warmups for the second straight game, although he mostly watched from under the basket, did some rebounding and then took three shots from the corner.

California authorities have charged a college professor with involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war.

No. 5 Washington's treacherous November stretch returns home and features a matchup with always dangerous Utah.

Southern California has fired defensive coordinator Alex Grinch with two games left in the Trojans’ disappointing regular season.

Southern California dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in more than two years and Oklahoma State vaulted into the rankings for the first time this year at No. 15.

No. 5 Washington’s prolific offense kept the Huskies unbeaten with a 52-42 victory over No. 24 Southern California.

Firefighters are making progress against a Southern California wildfire but authorities say thousands of homes still remain threatened.

Firefighters aided by aircraft are battling to contain a wind-driven wildfire that has damaged or destroyed at least nine buildings in rural Southern California and forced authorities to issue evacuation orders for 4,000 residents.

The number of former Californians who became Texans dropped slightly last year, but some of that slack was picked up by Arizona and Florida.

Xavier Watts intercepted Caleb Williams twice and returned a fumble for a touchdown as No. 21 Notre Dame harassed the Heisman Trophy winner and handed No. 10 Southern California its first loss in a 48-20 victory.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to fast-track low-income housing on surplus land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions.

Caleb Williams rushed for three touchdowns before running for a two-point conversion in the third overtime, and No. 9 Southern California stopped Arizona’s final attempt in a wild 43-41 victory.

The NCAA Division I Council has approved narrowing the period during which football and basketball players can enter the transfer portal and retain immediate eligibility for the following season.

Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are taking to picket lines in multiple states over wages and staff shortages.

The NCAA took a step toward putting rules in place to regulate the way college athletes can be compensated for their fame.

In a remote, dry patch of California farm country, a battle is raging over carrots.

California won’t be giving unemployment checks to workers on strike.

Caleb Williams threw for 403 yards and tied a career high with six touchdown passes as No. 8 Southern California held off Colorado 48-41 after racing out to a big lead.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people.

California lawmakers have finished their work for 2023.

No. 6 Southern California routed Stanford 56-10 in this century-old rivalry’s final chapter for the foreseeable future.

A California judge has halted a school district policy that requires parents be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school.

No. 6 Southern California blew out Nevada 66-14 for its second consecutive win to open the season.

Interest on federal student loans has started accumulating again after a three-year pause because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With Atlantic Coast Conference university leaders seemingly on the verge of deciding whether to expand with Stanford, California and SMU, two members of North Carolina’s board of trustees announced their opposition to the move.

The leader of the California Senate says she will step down from her leadership post.

California's attorney general has sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that requires schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns.

One father recalls escaping to safety with his 7-month-old daughter as a gunman opened fire on a popular California biker bar.

Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits.

Authorities say the retired police officer who opened fire at a popular Southern California bar entered and first shot his estranged wife and her dinner companion before firing at random.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is making progress toward an expansion that could grab Stanford and California from the sinking Pac-12, a person with direct knowledge of the ACC’s potential move told The Associated Press.

It was the first tropical storm to strike California in 84 years, and it caused damage that will take a while for residents to clean up.

Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, after a tropical storm to hit Southern California.

Scientists figure a natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada.

Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams of USC, Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michigan running back Blake Corum are among the returning first-team All-Americans who were selected to The Associated Press preseason All-America team.

Tropical Storm Hilary has drenched Southern California, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roads.

Deadly floodwaters have inundated streets along the length of Mexico’s arid Baja California, where Tropical Storm Hilary came ashore Sunday.

Challenging record highs this afternoon too

Tropical Storm Hilary is swirling northward just off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Major League Baseball has rescheduled three Sunday games in California because of the forecast for Hurricane Hilary.

Hurricane Hilary is churning off Mexico’s Pacific coast as a powerful Category 4 storm threatening to unleash torrential rains on the mudslide-prone border city of Tijuana before heading into Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years.

Stanford has not given up on getting an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its fellow Pac-4 members wait and hope to rebuild their plundered league.

Hurricane Hilary has strengthened into a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast, and it could bring heavy rain to the southwestern U.S. by the weekend.

President Joe Biden's administration has agreed to investigate how California manages its water.

The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents have chosen not to vote on whether to add Stanford and California to the league.

Firefighters aided by rain have made progress fighting a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and is threatening the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees.

Police say a 13-year-old girl kidnapped in Texas was rescued in Southern California when passersby saw her hold up a “help me” sign in a parked car.

Police say a 13-year-old girl kidnapped in Texas was rescued in Southern California when passersby saw her hold up a “help me” sign in a parked car.

Another tough U.S. House fight is shaping up in California’s Central Valley farm belt.

A dangerous heat wave is threatening a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits.

A misplaced naval ship in California, overlooked students in New York City and missed inmates in Texas are some of the reasons that the two most populous states and the largest city in the U.S. have filed last-minute 2020 census corrections requests.

More than a third of Americans are under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings as a blistering heatwave continues across the Southwest and California.

Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to declare a local emergency.

A landslide is tearing apart luxury homes on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Authorities say six people were killed when a small plane crashed and burst into flames in a field near a Southern California airport.

Workers who picketed 19 major Southern California hotels over the long holiday weekend are back on the job, but their union warned that more walkouts could come at any time.

Revelers across the nation braved heat and heavy downpours to take part in Fourth of July activities Tuesday, celebrating the nation’s founding with parades, fireworks and hot dog eating contests at a time of lingering political divisions.

Workers are picketing major Southern California hotels after walking off the job during the holiday weekend to demand better pay and benefits.

David and Dominic Fletcher got to play against each other for the first time in a major league game.

California lawmakers have passed a nearly $311 billion state budget.

Hikers have found human remains in a Southern California mountain area where actor Julian Sands disappeared five months ago.

The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the state to purchase massive amounts of renewable energy.

Authorities in Georgia say they have identified the remains of a woman who was killed 46 years ago.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has asked a federal judge to allow her to remain free through the Memorial Day weekend before surrendering to authorities on May 30.

A federal agency is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for an energy company over a 2021 oil pipeline spill that fouled Southern California beaches.

A Southern California lawmaker who is running for a contested Congressional seat was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Federal authorities say a Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Officials in Southern California say a coastal landslide closed a historic cultural center, shut down rail service in the area and forced the evacuation of nearby residences.

Regulators say California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack.

The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple, yellow and orange look like paint swatches from space.

An offshore pipeline involved in a 2021 oil spill that fouled Southern California beaches is being put back in service.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is clearing the way for California rules that will phase out the sale of diesel-powered trucks.

A cold low pressure system spinning off the coast of California has sent bands of rain and snow across the state.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ended some of the state water restrictions.

Hello dear friends and welcome to spring! The bluebonnets are popping, the trees are dropping pollen and our temperatures have made it back to the 80s.

California’s 11th atmospheric river has left the storm-soaked state with a bang.

Forecasters are warning of more flooding and potentially damaging winds as a new atmospheric river pushes into a swamped California.

Crews rushed to repair a levee break on a storm-swollen river in California’s central coast as yet another atmospheric river arrived with the potential to further inundate the state’s swamped farmland and agricultural communities.

Volunteers with shovels have arrived in Southern California mountain communities to help clear walkways and driveways of residents who have been confined to their homes since a historic blizzard dumped more than six feet of snow.

Tribal leaders, scientists and conservation advocates have buried Southern California’s most famous mountain lion in the mountains where the big cat once roamed.

Some residents stranded in Southern California mountain communities by a huge snowfall could be stuck for another week.

With Southern California’s mountain communities under a snow emergency, residents are grappling with power outages, roof collapses, storm-related fires and lack of baby formula and medicine.

Portland, Oregon received nearly a foot of snow in a single day in what proved to be its second-snowiest day in history.

Shipping companies have agreed to pay nearly $97 million to settle a lawsuit with a pipeline operator over a 2021 oil spill off the coast of Southern California.

Emergency crews are scrambling to shuttle food and medicine to residents of California mountain communities stranded by back-to-back winter storms.

Beleaguered Californians are being hit again by a new winter storm in the already snow-plastered state.

Kyle Busch sent Fontana off in style.

A powerful winter storm that swept the West Coast with flooding and frigid temperatures has shifted to southern California, swelling rivers to dangerous levels and dropping snow in even low-lying areas around Los Angeles.

Twenty-five years have passed since Southern California won its 12th and most recent national title in baseball.

Heavy rain and snow are pounding California and other parts of the West in the latest winter storm to hit the United States.

Winter storms are sowing more chaos across the U.S. The weather shut down much of Portland after the city experienced its second snowiest day in history and paralyzed travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains.

Federal wildlife officials are proposing classifying one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered.

The scenic seaside city of Laguna Beach, California, is weighing a plan to ban the sale and public use of balloons.

From queens to knights, actors at a Southern California medieval-themed dinner theater have left the castle.

California officials are considering a plan to make flag football a girls’ high school sport amid soaring popularity of the game and a push to get more female athletes on the field.

The opening of college football’s traditional signing period for high school prospects brought an apparent end to two of the cycle’s most notable recruitments.

The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history.

President Joe Biden says the nation's prayers are with two California cities where 18 people were killed in separate mass shootings over the last week.

Public water agencies in California will be getting more water from the state because of recent heavy rain.