The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Friday at 108.80, up 0.98 percent from Thursday. 26 issues were down, 62 issues were up and 85 issues unchanged.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police say a motorist fired at another man on a Los Angeles freeway onramp in what may have been a drug deal gone bad.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities are preparing to remove the wreckage of a deadly small plane crash from a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Police are searching for two robbers who ran over and killed a man after he won several thousand dollars at a Southern California casino.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities say a Los Angeles doctor has been arrested for prescribing pain medicine to homeless people recruited to turn the drugs over to dealers.

SUISUN CITY, Calif. (AP) -- The Coast Guard is working to rescue seven boaters who were stranded overnight when their boat ran aground in Suisun Bay.

PITTSBURG, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities are searching a Northern California landfill for signs of a missing man whose father was killed last week.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has overturned a businessman's tax fraud conviction because the Los Angeles judge didn't postpone the case so the man could be at his son's deathbed.

BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. (AP) -- A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its clear, spring-fed waters.

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) -- A helicopter has gone down on a busy California highway in Salinas, sending its pilot to the hospital and snarling traffic.

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities are looking for two men suspected of murdering and kidnapping another man whose body was discovered last week in the Niles Canyon section of Fremont.

CAMPO, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters beat back a 719-acre fire as it came within a quarter mile of ranch structures on Star Ranch Road in rural San Diego County through the night.

SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) -- San Carlos officials have decided to disband the city's police force and outsource law enforcement services to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) -- A convicted sex offender who molested a 5-year-old girl in a San Gabriel Valley bookstore has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) -- Ontario police have killed a man they say tried to ram a police vehicle and pointed an assault pistol at officers.

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say the discovery of a live grenade on a Glendale college campus forced the evacuation of hundreds of students.

BELL, Calif. (AP) -- Bell residents have been overcharged hundreds of thousands of dollars in sewer fees.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- A truck driver -- and his rig -- got tipsy en route to Santa Cruz, but the driver says it wasn't because he'd been drinking.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- People throughout the San Francisco Bay Area are being urged to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and limit driving as much as possible on Friday because of smoggy, unhealthy air.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Investigators say a mechanical failure that blew a hole in the engine of a Qantas jet headed to Sydney from San Francisco also caused damage to the plane's wing flaps.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The state Assembly this week began enforcing a long-forgotten rule that constrains media coverage of legislative debates by prohibiting audio or video recorders without permission.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two environmental groups are suing to block the redevelopment of San Francisco's abandoned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, saying a key part of the plan could permanently damage shoreline and wildlife.

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- The University of California, Irvine has upheld its decision to suspend a campus Muslim group after some of its members disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador at a campus event.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- State and federal officials have announced an agreement to remove all radioactive contamination from a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 at a rocket testing site just outside Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt was more concerned with protecting the couple's luxurious homes than dealing with baseball matters and didn't want to take the risk associated with buying one of baseball's most storied franchises six years ago, her estranged husband said.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II's end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home.