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About one-third of all home purchases these days are made in cash — far above normal. Some of those buyers are investors who crowd out people who want to buy the traditional way: with a mortgage. But cash buyers are also helping to mop up the huge inventory of foreclosures around the country.

Gov. Jerry Brown announced Tuesday that the state will eliminate 400 jobs at California’s department of Corrections headquarters in Sacramento. The state expects to save $30 million with those cuts.

Under the law, future insurance plans sold on the exchanges can only offer coverage for abortion if they sell it as a separate policy. Still, abortion opponents are pushing to ban any coverage of abortions from being sold in the health exchanges. But abortion rights groups say the bill is already far too constrictive.

Last week, the Obama Administration announced important changes to its current enforcement of immigration law. The changes will impact the lives of 300,000 people, many of them from the Southwest.

Are for-profit colleges taking low-income students to the cleaners or helping them improve their lives? That question found its way to a Senate hearing on Thursday. One whistle-blower testified that schools mislead students about job prospects.

The bunker mentality of residents in this city along the U.S.-Mexico border is slowly easing. And some investors are taking notice.

The court left in place Monday a lower court ruling that made it possible for federal prosecutors to charge a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a 40-year-old kidnapping.

Later this month, new federal rules will require home renovation professionals to work more carefully in homes that contain lead paint. Contractors and manufacturers want more time to get ready for the change.

Brand new, multimillion-dollar Lincoln High School is struggling with attendance and academic achievement. School officials have learned it takes more than a new building to overcome hardships that keep kids out of class.

The fire, which started about five miles east of Warner Springs, continues to expand to the east and northwest, although eastward movement has slowed considerably.