An Olympic gold medalist says the governing body of the U.S. swim team hasn't done enough to address a problem of widespread sexual abuse in youth swimming. Deena Deardurff Schmidt, a 1972 Olympic champion swimmer, spoke out Friday in support of a lawsuit alleging inadequate background checks of coaches in the USA Swimming system.

Public health officials are tracking a new case of the measles this month in the Bay Area after noting three other confirmed cases in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties in February.  California officials say there was a fifth confirmed case in February in Amador County in the Sierra foothills.

San Francisco is joining a group of other California cities and  public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say  misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power. Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment on the June 8 statewide  ballot, would require a two-thirds majority vote before local jurisdictions  could establish a public power program, known as community choice  aggregation, to compete with private utilities.

The San Jose State University Police Department is investigating a  pair of robberies that occurred on campus early Thursday morning. Three men assaulted a campus custodian and took his money at about  2:36 a.m. at the intersection of South Fourth and San Carlos streets,  according to university police.

Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves. There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone.

California community college students have missed out on as much as $500 million in unclaimed federal aid, according to a recent report. Wednesday's report by the nonprofit Institute for College Access and Success in Berkeley found that about 500,000 of the 2.9 million community college students in California could be eligible for a Pell Grant.

Danero Thomas hit a 15-footer as the buzzer sounded and 13th-seeded Murray State stunned No. 4 seed Vanderbilt 66-65 on Thursday in an NCAA tournament opener in the West Regional. Perhaps President Barack Obama was onto something picking these revved-up Racers to get past the first round. It was the school's first victory in the NCAA tournament in 24 years.

Despite a modest rise last month, Bay Area home sales continue to stagnate, according to the latest figures released by San Diego-based real estate analysts MDA DataQuick. The report said 4,987 new and resale homes were sold in the nine-county Bay Area in February, up 2.8 percent from January but down 0.9 percent from the same time last year.

The union that represents workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., known as Nummi, have voted in favor of a proposed severance package for the 4,600 workers about to lose their jobs when the plant closes, according to a United Auto Workers official. Spokesman Mike Roth confirmed late Wednesday workers had ratified the package.

The head of the union that represents 4,700 workers at the New  United Motor Manufacturing Inc. auto plant in Fremont alleged Tuesday that a  proposed severance package mandates a gag order preventing him from speaking  to news media.