The San Diego Stock Exchange Index closed lower Monday at 105.11, down 0.60 percent from Friday. Declining issues beat advancers 51 to 42, and 67 issues were unchanged. Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN) was the top dollar gainer, up $1.09 to $12.13. Glacier Water Services Inc. (OTC: GWSV) was the top dollar loser, down $6 to $34.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California nurses' union won't strike, saying swine flu protections have been written into new contracts with the state's largest hospital system.

CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) -- A magnitude-4.0 earthquake has shaken part of the southeastern California region bordering Baja California.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- State transportation officials say they plan to reopen the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by 9 a.m. Monday.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators are meeting to look into the cause of a crash between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter that killed nine people off the Southern California coast. Meanwhile, the search for bodies and wreckage continues.

PARIS (AP) -- A French lawyer for Roman Polanski says he has submitted a new bail offer to a Swiss court to try to free the filmmaker from jail.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Work crews have shut down a towering fountain of water that gushed onto a San Fernando Valley street from a ruptured water pipe.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A new analysis of Census data shows that same-sex couples who identify as married are similar to opposite-sex couples in age, income and even parental status, regardless of whether they are legally wed.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The communications director for California Attorney General Jerry Brown has resigned after it was revealed he had secretly recorded telephone conversations with reporters.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- The East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa will close on Dec. 31, just months after the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Lawry's restaurant chain will pay $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed it barred men from waiting tables at its fancy steakhouses.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles police officer has been indicted for attempting to illegally export guns to Belize, where he owns a private security firm.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California wage earners may notice a little less in their paychecks starting this month.

REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A Santa Rosa man is recovering from a serious hip injury after he fell about 2,000 feet while climbing Mt. Shasta.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A San Mateo bookkeeper is facing the possibility of life in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he defrauded investors out of at least $20 million.

MENDOTA, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say the body of a missing 4-year-old boy in Fresno County was found in the clothes dryer of a neighbor's home and a 14-year-old boy from the house in Mendota has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to name a permanent replacement for former police chief William Bratton on Tuesday.

AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a woman seeking her deep-sea scuba diving certification has died after a dive off Santa Catalina Island.

WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a 6-year-old Los Angeles County girl has died after a television set fell on top of her.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Another briefing and still no word when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be open to traffic again.

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California man and a Nevada man are facing possible life sentences after being convicted in a Placer County case involving drugs and torture.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Police are hoping possible witnesses will come forward after an altercation at a country and western bar escalated into a fatal shooting on a San Jose highway.

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have found the body of a 73-year-old man who disappeared during a hike up Mt. Whitney.