Officials: Woman Released from Jail Immediately Steals Car
Authorities say a woman released from a Southern California jail promptly carjacked a vehicle with an elderly woman inside.
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Authorities say a woman released from a Southern California jail promptly carjacked a vehicle with an elderly woman inside.
Thousands evacuated their Northern California homes Sunday evening after authorities warned an emergency spillway in the country's tallest dam was in danger of failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood waters on towns below.
In a little over a year, three NFL franchises have moved, announced a resettlement or filed paperwork seeking to relocate.
Lawmakers introduced a bill supporters say would make California the first state to add a third gender option on state identifying documents.
Maryland authorities say a California man is facing charges after 250 pounds of marijuana was found in a vehicle he was driving.
The nation's largest state bar association is overhauling ethics rules for attorneys for the first time in 30 years, and some lawyers are unhappy about a proposal that would open them up to discipline for having sex with clients.
California voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday allowing recreational marijuana in the nation's most populous state, handing the legalization movement its biggest victory yet.
Worried that California might legalize recreational marijuana, the state's third-largest city by population has voted to ban pot sales ahead of Tuesday's election.
A Long Beach woman who gave a deadly dose of methadone to her baby daughter has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
A 41-year-old Fresno man has been sentenced to 1,503 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter over a four-year period.
Authorities say a sheriff's deputy in a northern California county near the Oregon border has been shot to death.
Four people were killed and nine were injured on Saturday after an out-of-control pickup truck plunged off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and plowed into crowd gathered at a festival below, authorities said.
California's corrections department has agreed not to require sex offenders to post do-not-disturb signs on their doors during Halloween.
A wildfire burning for nearly two months on California's Central Coast has surpassed $200 million in firefighting costs, becoming the costliest to fight in U.S. history.
A voracious and deadly wildfire in central California has burned 150 homes and the toll may rise, fire officials said Saturday.
Firefighters battling a California wildfire that forced the evacuation of campgrounds and ranches were struggling with strong overnight winds and bracing for rising temperatures as an extreme heatwave is expected to sweep across the Southwest this weekend.
Police in Northern California say they arrested five men for stealing $4,700 worth of energy drinks.
A youngster who took a cone from a national park in California says they are sorry in a heartfelt note sent to the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Police named a dog Freeway Frida after rescuing her from living on the highway median she called home for at least five weeks in California.
Authorities say a man tried to rob a car wash in Northern California with an empty potato chip bag and an alleged handgun.
A 21-year-old Navy SEAL trainee has died during a basic training exercise in Coronado, California.
A Muslim high school student says she's saddened and hurt after being identified in her California high school's yearbook as "Isis Phillips."
A brief profile of five of the best luxury resorts in California
A California university says that a recent trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland has no merit.
Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Los Angeles-based Mount Saint Mary's University.
