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Thomas Ueno, 35, ran up a hill in Newport Beach on Monday night after the woman and children dashed to safety, and it was too foggy for helicopters to help hunt him down, authorities said.
Two Northern California sheriff's deputies and a former colleague were charged Tuesday with involvement in setting up jail inmates fights to gamble on them.
New snowpack measurements have brought bad news for Californians hoping for an end to five years of drought.
Officials in San Francisco will vote Tuesday on whether to increase the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21, even as opponents argue that cities and counties cannot trump California law.
Yosemite National Park is set to start showing the new names for some of park's most iconic attractions after no settlement was reached to a bitter legal dispute.
State surveyors will travel up the Sierra Nevada Tuesday to take their monthly measurements of the snowpack after a mainly dry and warm February.
The Police Department is facing scrutiny for its response after three people were stabbed and several others were injured in the melee Saturday involving several dozen people and spanning a city block.
Carson May, 23, was found on Monday under five feet of snow. . He was reported missing on Jan. 15, a day after he was last seen.
An accident report filed with California's Department of Motor Vehicles says a self-driving car being tested by Google collided with a public bus on Valentine's Day.
A driver was fatally shot over the weekend in the seventh shooting on a Northern California freeway in recent months, authorities said Monday.
California lawmakers are expected to take action Monday on a tax package aimed at appeasing federal regulators and preventing a $1.1 billion funding hole in the state's health insurance program for low-income Californians.
A biologist and contractor with a lumber company is at the heart of an experiment sanctioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: killing bully owls to protect endangered owls.
Two teens coming home from Disneyland were among the three people killed in a fiery crash that authorities believe was caused by two cars racing on Interstate 5 in Commerce.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer wants to require the Federal Aviation Administration to establish seat-size standards for commercial airlines, which he says now force passengers to sit on planes "like sardines."
Three people were killed and at least four others injured around midnight Friday after authorities say a street race on Interstate 5 in Los Angeles County led to a fiery crash involving up to eight vehicles.
