In the California Legislature, there is a bill to ban all law enforcement from covering their faces while conducting ...

California teen Marissa DiNapoli, 18, was last heard from on Saturday, when she texted her family to say she was going to ...

Now, prosecutors have charged the Oakland man allegedly behind it all, 40-year-old Demond Williams, with pimping and ...

A 14-year-girl who had gone missing from West Covina has been located, police said Thursday. According to a Feather Alert issued by the California Highway Patrol on behalf of the West Covina Police ...

Antonio L. Steed, 30, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Nathan Owen, who was visiting St. Louis from ...

Former champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is allegedly wanted on an arrest warrant in Mexico, officials said.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and ...

Firefighters responded to a house fire and possible explosion Thursday in Simi Valley. The fire was reported late Thursday ...

Claims of pervasive sexual harassment at the department have cost the city $3.7 million in settlements in last two years thus ...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s ...

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