Armed Robbery Suspects Sought After Hostage Standoff Near LA
Authorities are searching for at least two armed robbery suspects after 14 people were held hostage overnight at a Nordstrom Rack in Westchester.
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Authorities are searching for at least two armed robbery suspects after 14 people were held hostage overnight at a Nordstrom Rack in Westchester.
A student was shot and wounded at a San Joaquin Valley high school Thursday and a suspect was taken into custody, officials said.
Authorities in Northern California made a snappy discovery during a routine probation check: An alligator named "Mr. Teeth" who was apparently protecting a stash of marijuana.
Riding a wave of new tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing a state spending plan that eliminates the deficit and provides $6.3 billion more in spending than the previous year.
The Oakland Museum of California offered a $12,000 reward Wednesday for the safe recovery of a stolen gold-encrusted jewel box — the latest in a series of thefts involving Gold Rush-era artifacts in the region.
Federal investigators have said California has a serious prison problem, but Gov. Brown disputed that claim Tuesday and he's calling for changes in where and how we now house our most violent criminals.
Wanted comedian Micah "Katt" Williams was reportedly arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday night on a bench warrant after missing a Sacramento court hearing on Monday.
Federal transportation officials said Tuesday they have joined an investigation into the crash of an empty oil tanker into a tower in the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Gov. Jerry Brown is challenging a federal court order that California further reduce its inmate population to improve prison conditions, reigniting a legal battle that once reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
A tanker ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Monday, but there were no reports of leaking oil and the bridge remained open to traffic, officials said.
California icon Huell Howser has died at the age of 67, according to his assistant, Ryan Morris. Howser, who hosted PBS' "California Gold", died of natural causes at his home on Sunday night.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered the release of personnel files that would identify Roman Catholic priests accused of child molestation.
Authorities in California's Central Valley have located the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared from radar en route from San Diego to Fresno.
San Francisco police say a woman is hospitalized with what are being described as "life-threatening injuries" after someone poured a flammable liquid on her and set her on fire.
Officials at the highest level of the state Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars secret for more than a decade, the state attorney general's office said in a report released Friday.
