Officials across the nation are closing prisons as crime rates drop and views about drug use change, but not in Nebraska, where the governor is pushing for a new $230 million prison to relieve overcrowding and house a steadily rising inmate population.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, who served as a House manager in Donald Trump’s last impeachment, has filed a lawsuit against the former president, his son, lawyer and a Republican congressman whose actions he charges led to January’s insurrection.

As the U.S. prioritizes teachers nationwide for coronavirus vaccines, states and many districts are not keeping track of how many school employees have received the shots.

LeBron James is going to Georgia this weekend for more than the NBA All-Star Game.

Here is the latest California sports news from The Associated Press.

One of the 13 people killed when the SUV smuggling migrants into California hit a tractor-trailer was a 23-year-old woman who was fleeing violence in Guatemala for the hope of a better life.

A federal appeals court has reinstated rioting charges against the leader of a white supremacist group involved in violent California clashes with foes of then-President Donald Trump.

San Francisco is paying $16.1 million to house people in tent villages as the city struggles with a swelling homeless population.

The San Diego Zoo has vaccinated nine great apes for the coronavirus after a troop of gorillas in its Safari Park became infected.

The California Highway Patrol says nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people that drove through an opening in a border wall suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a tractor-trailer and killed 13 others inside.

A woman has been struck by a bullet during an armed holdup at a noted Beverly Hills restaurant.

This April should look very different than the last for California’s nearly 40 million residents.

Indoor sports in California can soon resume after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by two high-school athletes.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is extending the state’s mandatory face mask order by a month, a break from what Texas and neighboring Mississippi are doing.

A Los Angeles police officer has died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a vehicle last month while on duty.

Waste management company, Recology, will refund San Francisco ratepayers nearly $100 million it overcharged while under the oversight of a former public works director being investigated for corruption.

The California Legislature has OK'd a $6.6 billion plan aimed at returning students to the classroom.

California Legislature OKs $6.6 billion plan aimed at returning public school students to the classroom.

It’s been seven years since controversial music producer Dr. Luke, who is still embattled in a lawsuit with pop star Kesha, has been nominated at the Grammys.

The Boston Marathon's mid-pandemic plan to hand out coveted medals to 70,000 people who walk or run the 26.2-mile distance wherever they are has roiled the usually genteel running world.

A car crashed into a Los Angeles homeless encampment early Thursday but there were no serious injuries.

The U.K. competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store over concerns it has a dominant role that stifles competition and hurts consumers.

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state's most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus more quickly.

California to designate 40% of vaccine doses for poorest areas and revise metrics for quicker business reopenings.

The demons are everywhere, sometimes spreading like purple slime, lurking, killing.

The California Republican Party has been sued by an employee alleging racial discrimination by a colleague and retaliation for reporting it.

Authorities have identified a Navy sailor killed in Tuesday’s chain-reaction crash involving military trucks on a Southern California highway that injured five other service members.

Officials say a California serial killer who strangled and raped at least seven women was fatally choked himself in a state prison.

Authorities say a cargo train derailed in the Southern California desert on Wednesday, sending more than two dozen rail cars crashing into the sand.

Health officials say Los Angeles County could move into the next phase of reopening with fewer restrictions as early as next week, though any actual lifting of coronavirus-related constraints would not happen immediately.

A California prisoner is one of two people accused of stealing more than $100,000 in unemployment benefits.

A new study from federal researchers provides the most detailed look yet at what the Pacific Northwest's endangered orcas eat.

California lawmakers are pushing several new efforts this year to largely seal or expunge criminal records for those who have completed their sentences.

A Northern California city has become what’s believed to be the first in the country to ban all new gas stations in an effort to curb emissions.

A study of people in California who got $500 a month for free says they used it to pay off debt and get full-time jobs.