Teens Kidnapped After High School Prom Fight Off Attacker
San Bernardino County authorities say two teens kidnapped following their high school prom fought off their armed attacker and managed to escape.
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San Bernardino County authorities say two teens kidnapped following their high school prom fought off their armed attacker and managed to escape.
Police said the victim later escaped and is being treated in the hospital.
Yesly Jiminez was found inside the suspect's bedroom but she wasn't physically harmed.
Prosecutors asked that his bail be set at $220,000.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputies said the girl was taken from her grandparents at their home.
Detectives from the sheriff's Major Crimes Bureau are investigating the possible kidnapping of two men Saturday in East Los Angeles.
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Four verdicts have been reached in the case of a California man charged with raping and kidnapping a 15-year-old girl who later married him, but jurors are at an impasse on a rape count.
Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with raping and abducting his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter, but he says the teen ran away with him willingly and eventually married him and bore his child.
No information was released on the age, gender or physical well-being of the kidnap victim.
Authorities say police have stepped up patrols around an Ontario school after an attempted kidnapping on campus.
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If convicted as charged, Jack Perry faces up to 14 years in state prison.
An Orange County woman has been arrested on suspicion of abducting her 8-year-old twins from the legal custody of the children's father and trying to take them out of the country.
Police say a man is in custody Friday after kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her several times.
Two children, ages four and seven, were abducted on Wednesday night.
A 34-year-old man was sentenced to prison Thursday for kidnapping a 10-year-old girl from her bed in Northridge and sexually assaulting her.
Inglewood Police said the alleged kidnapping occurred in the 2800 block of W. Imperial Highway at a shopping center.
A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney has made his first court appearance on a charge that he kidnapped a California woman in a case that police initially dismissed as a hoax.
A 32-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman outside of a nightclub has been arrested, police said on Friday.
A man was convicted Friday for kidnapping a 10-year-old girl from her bed in Northridge and sexually assaulting her.
The father of a 2-year-old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert after she was abducted at gunpoint in Chatsworth was questioned and booked for kidnapping early Thursday.
The LAPD is warning residents after a second attempted abduction in the harvard Heights area may have been caused by the same suspect as the first attempt.
The alleged victim was found about 12 hours after her disappearance, wandering barefoot and bruised around a San Fernando Valley Starbucks parking lot.
Police are on the hunt for a man they say tried to kidnap two children from an apartment complex just south of Koreatown on Monday night.
As government and corporate grant funding dries up for The Garage Board Shop's nonprofit educational program, 14-year-old Prisilla Ulloa wonders where she will go.
A California sheriff's deputy was shot and killed on Thursday while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, officials said.
Baywatch Avalon, and Avalon City Fire responded to the crash. Two people were dead at the scene, LACo Lifeguards said.
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Brian Hooker exchanged Facebook messages with a friend, which CBS News exclusively reviewed, after his wife vanished in the Bahamas over the weekend.
The arson suspect who was arrested for allegedly starting a fire that decimated a 1.2 million square-foot Kimberly-Clark paper goods warehouse in Ontario earlier this week was charged by prosecutors on Thursday.
As government and corporate grant funding dries up for The Garage Board Shop's nonprofit educational program, 14-year-old Prisilla Ulloa wonders where she will go.
A California sheriff's deputy was shot and killed on Thursday while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, officials said.
Riverside County deputies were in pursuit of a possibly armed driver in the Inland Empire on Wednesday afternoon when the suspect stopped at a Jurupa Valley intersection and refused to leave his vehicle.
Baywatch Avalon, and Avalon City Fire responded to the crash. Two people were dead at the scene, LACo Lifeguards said.
As government and corporate grant funding dries up for The Garage Board Shop's nonprofit educational program, 14-year-old Prisilla Ulloa wonders where she will go.
Baywatch Avalon, and Avalon City Fire responded to the crash. Two people were dead at the scene, LACo Lifeguards said.
Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson continued to say mobile ordering will take a piece of the warm personal interaction away, "and there is also the freshness factor …"
A North Hollywood coffee shop owner is voicing his frustrations after his small business was targeted by burglars yet again, marking what he says is the sixth time in the last year that he's been hit.
Three Southern California men were arrested for their alleged part in a $1 million Lego heist in the Inland Empire, according to authorities.
Two waves of rainstorms are predicted to hit Southern California over the weekend, bringing a drop in temperatures across the region.
The homicide investigation led Orange County deputies to an illegal gambling house in Stanton, where nearly 50 people were detained over the weekend.
An hours-long pursuit finally came to an end after the alleged DUI suspect led California Highway Patrol officers through Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties on Tuesday night.
Santa Ana Police Department detectives are seeking help from the public in solving a homicide that left a 37-year-old man dead outside his home in early 2025.
Two Inland Empire teenagers, including the daughter of an Orange County firefighter, were hospitalized with severe injuries after they were involved in an off-roading accident in Utah last week.
The arson suspect who was arrested for allegedly starting a fire that decimated a 1.2 million square-foot Kimberly-Clark paper goods warehouse in Ontario earlier this week was charged by prosecutors on Thursday.
Three Southern California men were arrested for their alleged part in a $1 million Lego heist in the Inland Empire, according to authorities.
Two men in their 60s were found dead in Yucaipa on Wednesday afternoon, deputies said.
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Brian Hooker exchanged Facebook messages with a friend, which CBS News exclusively reviewed, after his wife vanished in the Bahamas over the weekend.
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California lawmakers want schools to include nicotine in drug tests already given to student-athletes, some as young as seventh graders.
San Francisco officials said Tuesday that the city has filed a lawsuit against leading manufacturers of ultra-processed foods, accusing them of producing products linked to serious health issues and alleging that the companies knowingly made the foods addictive.
A bill that would reverse a 25% tax increase on California's legal cannabis industry is heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, after being approved by the legislature.
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Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane was lured to a Dallas studio for a meeting, then allegedly kidnapped and robbed by a group including rappers Pooh Shiesty and Big30.
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