The Pasadena Fire Department rushed to rescue eight office workers caught in an apparent construction accident at an office building today, officials said. >>

The council tentatively approves a proposal to double and triple payouts to tenants evicted for conversions. >>

Commuters headed home tonight on the northbound 110 Freeway to Pasadena will face heavy congestion after a trio of unrelated accidents closed traffic lanes and triggered lengthy back ups. >>

Sacramento — Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez announced in February that he was "ready to buck my church" and push legislation allowing terminally ill people to speed up their deaths with lethal drugs. But he wasn't ready for this — not from holy leaders. >>

Bob Clark and a son are pronounced dead at the scene of an early morning crash on PCH. >>

Disposing of Yosemite park's garbage is a green innovation, but it brings olfactory distress to those living downwind. >>

New York officials are investigating whether a firm was improperly added to a preferred list. >>

Tax-exempt groups whose donors include big corporations with business before the state pick up the tab for lavish overseas travel. >>

As the man struggles to speak and remember, a Lakewood medical center finds ways to pay his bills while searching for his family. >>

Company says it has not been paid. It was hired after a judge took over failing prison system. >>

The mayor and city clerk trade accusations of improprieties as votes are counted in three council and three school board races. >>

Witness' aunt, Anita Fishman, was the third victim. Chester Turner is accused in the deaths of 10 women, one of whom was pregnant. >>

Prosecution claims that the music producer previously threatened women are meant to prejudice the jury in his murder trial, a lawyer says. >>

The offender, known as Charles Rothenberg when he set his boy on fire in O.C. in 1983, gets 25 years to life in prison. >>

The R&B singer fails to appear in O.C. court so the judge grants divorce and gives custody of 14-year-old daughter to Houston. >>

The hearing in Oxnard is the first in a series of meetings that will help decide the fate of the $800-million project off Ventura County. >>

They protest the school district's stance nine months after their contract expired. >>

Villaraigosa says the reductions will pare the deficit to $131 million next year. Officials say residents won't notice the cutbacks. >>

The lawsuit claims the government mishandled and unfairly denied applications for asylum. >>

Environmental groups oppose FBI effort to use land in O.C. that had been designated to be part of a wildlife refuge. >>

The 12-year-old, one of seven diners who became ill after eating in a Lake Forest restaurant, remains in intensive care with complications. >>

Employees at state mental facilities seek to draw attention to a staffing crisis. >>

L.A. County authorities file 13 additional counts, including rape and lewd acts on a child. He has pleaded not guilty. >>

Authorities say he met the women at O.C. bars beginning in late 2005. >>

MECCA, CALIF. — Blue cheese dressing and concrete sealant spilled into a canal leading to the Salton Sea when 19 cars in a 52-car freight train derailed in the Southern California desert. >>

Don't want to be planted, cremated or snorted >>

Five urban school districts, including the Long Beach Unified School District, were named Wednesday as finalists for the annual $1-million Broad Prize for Urban Education, which honors urban school systems judged as making the greatest progress in raising student achievement. >>

A man who burned his son two decades ago to prevent his estranged wife from getting custody was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison by a judge who called him the "kind of individual for whom the three-strikes law was passed." >>

Sheriff's deputies Wednesday found another home in the eastern San Gabriel Valley that had been turned into an elaborate pot-growing operation. >>

Construction workers Tuesday plugged a hole in a main sewer pipe that had leaked millions of gallons of wastewater into an ecological reserve. >>