A Hawaii-based Marine sergeant is being court-martialed on accusations that he hazed a member of his squad by ordering him to dig a foxhole as punishment for falling asleep on watch duty in Afghanistan. Read comments

Illinois-based cable-TV, phone and Internet provider Consolidated Communications Inc. is buying a California-based company for $341 million. Read comments

Shocking death pictures of a murdered woman were shown to jurors in the trial of former police detective Stephanie Lazarus - huge close-up portraits of the battered face of Sherri Rasmussen, who died 26 years ago. Read comments

The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom. Read comments

Gov. Jerry Brown's appointee to head the department that oversees banking, financial and consumer regulations in California led a trade association that fought against tighter lending restrictions before the subprime mortgage crisis exploded and was an executive with Washington Mutual when the now-failed bank was among the most aggressive marketers of loans to high-risk borrowers. Read comments

A court appearance is scheduled for a Jurupa Valley man who got a restraining order last month against a fourth-grade boy he says threatened his son with a knife. Read comments

Citizens outraged by the beating death of a homeless man in Fullerton have gathered enough signatures to place a recall of three council members on the ballot. Read comments

Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network. Read comments

Authorities say a man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his estranged wife in Albuquerque almost 25 years ago. Read comments

Federal prosecutors say a Torrance, Calif.-based seafood corporation has been ordered to pay $1 million in fines and community service donations for falsely labeling frozen catfish fillets as grouper. Read comments