The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed higher Friday at 102, up 0.23 percent from Thursday. Advancing issues beat decliners 50 to 44, and 70 issues were unchanged.

State and federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged securities scam that cheated dozens of people out of $17 million.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Hot weather brings a spike in demand for water and power, so Hoover Dam keeps humming all summer long.

NORWALK, Calif. (AP) -- Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies say tips from the public helped lead to the arrest of a suspect who allegedly robbed a man outside a convenience store while holding a 3-year-old boy in his arms.

AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Birth control for bison?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada's unemployment rate leveled out a bit in October, at 13 percent.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a gang-related shooting that killed a man and wounded two others near a fire station in San Bernardino.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a fee 32 percent fee increase for students attending the state's premier public schools.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles cold-case detectives have arrested a man charged with murdering a 65-year-old woman nearly three decades ago.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people at a Watts housing project.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) -- Prison officials say a man convicted of a 1987 double murder has died of natural causes, 16 years after he was sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July.

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) -- A Berkeley man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting earlier this year of a 17-year-old Danville boy.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The former head of San Francisco software company is being held without bail after a federal grand jury indicted him on embezzlement charges.