11-year-old girl graduates from community college in California
Athena Elling is the youngest person to graduate from Irvine Community College.
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Athena Elling is the youngest person to graduate from Irvine Community College.
Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died.
Dr. Gary Gibbon is now cancer-free, six months after the first-ever lung-liver transplant on a cancer patient.
Climate change means wine could soon have a higher alcohol content — but spoil faster and smell worse.
Caroline Meister, 30, left for a four-day hike on Monday, but never returned.
Caroline Meister, 30, left for a four-day hike on Monday, but never returned. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
Rescuers in California are searching for a missing hiker from the Chicago area. Caroline Meister is from west suburban River Forest, but lives and works at a zen training center in a forest near Big Sur.
Teams were doing training simulations when a device exploded. they were wearing tactical gear when it happened. Thirteen of those injuries had dizziness and ringing in their ears.
The plane made a safe emergency landing in Los Angeles.
Parts of California were digging out from more than 7 feet of snow. A monster blizzard hit places like the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in Mammoth Lakes over the weekend.
It happened about 30 minutes east of Los Angeles. Video captured the moment the mountain lion pounced on a schnauzer named Holly Jolly in her backyard. Her owners started screaming, distracting the mountain lion.
Five U.S. Marines aboard a helicopter that went down during stormy weather in the mountains near San Diego are confirmed dead, the military said.
The Orange County Fire Authority shared a video of a firefighter rescuing a cat earlier this week after an RV rolled over in a two-car crash.
Authorities say the avalanche happened as a powerful snowstorm swept through the area, creating white-out conditions.
The ski lift near Lake Tahoe closed half an hour after opening for the first time this season.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said that "we are very, very fortunate" no one happened to be seated in the two adjoining seats to the blown-out door.
Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction.
The whales hunted sea lions, the Monterey Bay Whale Watch said, before traveling northwest.
Both tickets matched all six numbers for a total jackpot of $395 million.
Yes, it’s true. Experts said what was seen on California’s Central Coast was a phenomenon called “ballooning,” when baby spiders release a bunch of silk and fly off.
Dianne Feinstein was the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Senate as well as the longest-serving senator from California.
Storm, a husky with a heavy metal attitude, lives in a home next to the stadium. On Thursday, she snuck out and somehow made her way to some prime seats all on her own.
Bob Barker hosted CBS' "The Price is Right" for 35 years.
John Snowling, 59, shot his wife, who was divorcing him, and then began firing "randomly" at other patrons in the bar, authorities said.
A prosecutor said a retired police officer, 59-year-old John Snowling was the gunman. An officer shot and killed him.
