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Wells Fargo Securities said there are still many signs that California's labor market remains deeply ill, despite the better job creation performance this year.

Occupy LA protestors vowed Wednesday morning to take the movement beyond City Hall despite police overnight raids that shut down their encampment. More than 200 demonstrators were arrested in Los Angeles.

Wells Fargo Securities said the California housing market continues to struggle and is not yet ready to bolster California's economic rebound.

The lawyers representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan has said he was framed for the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and that they are seeking to overturn his conviction.

Police in riot gear and biohazard suits began removing anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall early Wednesday in a belated enforcement of an eviction order from the mayor.

Police in riot gear closed in on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles early Wednesday, determined to enforce the mayor's order to evict protesters who have camped outside City Hall for the past eight weeks.

Throngs of anti-Wall Street protesters braced for eviction Tuesday night from their encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, as word spread by broadcast news reports and the Internet that a police raid was imminent.

Forty beagles used in laboratory testing have arrived in Los Angeles to find foster homes after having been freed by the Beagle Freedom Project in Spain.

French bank Societe Generale SA is contemplating the sale of its U.S. asset manager TCW Group, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.

A man accused of killing eight people during a shooting spree at a Southern California hair salon in October pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and attempted murder charges.

Most retailers lured shoppers to their online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with ads promising deals that were too good to pass up. Outerwear retailer Patagonia, however, effectively tried to do the opposite.

Silent film The Artist and the apocalyptic tale Take Shelter led the Independent Spirit Award nominations on Tuesday, each taking nods for best feature, director and for acting.

Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, on Tuesday was sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death.

A new California law means Murray will serve his time in overcrowded Los Angeles County Jail

Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, on Tuesday was sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death.

Judge Michael Pastor indicates Murray deserves a harsher sentence than four years in county jail

The Jacksonville Jaguars fired coach Jack Del Rio on Tuesday, but they need to do more than that to become legitimate again.

Remember the Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday? Yeah, that Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday. Well, turns out she may not have done it to get an Xbox 360 after all.

The struggling Jaguars have a lease that keeps them in Florida.

I'm from New York, so when I'm on the street, I'm talkin' here, as Dustin Hoffman said in the movie Midnight Cowboy. I mean, as a New Yorker, I like to talk, live, to other people. That's half the fun of living in a crowded city. That's changing, it seems, as a new generation focuses more on texting than talking, and it's changing everything.

Jennifer Lopez has been sued by Bronx-based graffiti artists who say their artwork was used without permission in her Fiat commercial.