Standing in the company cafeteria, Curtis Kroeker was mulling his options. Sizzling steak? Or maybe the organic mesclun mix with poached pears, candied pecans, blue cheese and caramelized fennel relish tossed with sherry vinaigrette

Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy.

The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Friday at 130.96, up 0.34 percent from Thursday. Advancing issues beat decliners 55 to 52, and 54 issues were unchanged.

RealAge Inc., the healthy-lifestyle media company whose executive office is in San Diego, received a Silver Award at the 2008 Pharmaceutical Advertising and Marketing Excellence Awards (PhAME) ceremony on May 1.

The nine-week trial of Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano often had the seamy plot-lines and suspense worthy of a Hollywood movie: death threats, offers of murder and extramarital affairs.

A Clovis biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by stuffing his body in a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A wildfire is burning near homes in Pomona but there are no evacuations or injuries reported.

A University Medical Center employee faces charges of stealing more than $100,000 from the hospital over the past 16 months.

Santa Monica has cut down 23 ficus trees and activists are calling it a shady move.

Two school trustees dropped re-election bids Friday after being challenged by Nevada's top election official in what could have triggered a court battle over the state's voter-approved term limits.

Another U.S. flag was torched outside a Mission Viejo home, the second time this week, and this time flames spread to a eucalyptus tree.

Four men allegedly linked to a Lompoc area marijuana farm have been arrested for the September killing of a man whose body was left in a sleeping bag along Highway 154 near Los Olivos.

San Diego State University is using prominent alumni in a newspaper, radio and television public relations blitz to counter image problems after last week's massive campus drug bust.

Lifeguards in Oceanside are getting limited policing powers.

Nearly 1,200 people who lost their health insurance after they incurred high medical expenses will get their coverage back.

Three people were killed on Interstate 5 south of downtown Los Angeles after a motorist driving the wrong way crashed head-on against another vehicle.

Firefighters face a second day of hot and dry weather as they work to contain a wildfire on towering Mount Baldy.

A former Orange County reserve sheriff's deputy has been convicted of threatening two slow-playing golfers at a Chino Hills course.

Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the map, is dead at 94.

When Riverside County sheriff's deputies and SWAT officers stormed the Soboba Indian Reservation and killed two suspects in an hourlong gunbattle, they enforced a lockdown so strict even the tribe's leader wound up sleeping in his casino parking lot.

A Marine was found shot to death Thursday near the Camp Pendleton military base, authorities said.