Police suspect that a teenage girl died of a drug overdose after attending a rave at the Fresno Fairgrounds on Saturday night.
Authorities said Monday that Houa Hue, 15, a sophomore at Fresno's Washington Union High School, was found dead early Sunday in the back seat of a car belonging to a stranger she had asked to take her home.
Fresno police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, but they assume the girl probably overdosed on a popular party drug.
The twin-engine Sabreliner jet that collided Sunday with a single-engine Cessna over Otay Mesa in San Diego County was returning to Brown Field after completing a test of a radar system for the Navy, officials said Monday.
Four people aboard the Sabreliner and one aboard the Cessna 172 were killed. There were no survivors.
Killed aboard the Sabreliner were three employees of defense contractor BAE Systems and a contractor working for BAE, the company said.
A wind-driven fire in San Luis Obispo County pushed northeast Monday afternoon and forced residents from their homes.
The Cuesta fire, burning east of U.S. 101 and about eight miles north of San Luis Obispo, grew from 100 to 300 acres as embers jumped containment lines and sent the blaze toward Santa Margarita, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
Authorities issued an evacuation order for the area south of the railroad tracks along California 58 and the Miller Flats community.
The brush fire that exploded in parts of Montebello and spread into unincorporated Los Angeles County before being contained wasn't the largest burning in the heat wave that baked the region over the weekend, but it may have been the most unusual.
It's rare for a blaze in the middle of urban and suburban L.A. to grow as quickly as the Lincoln fire did, said county fire Assistant Chief Nick Duvally.
Los Angeles city prosecutors have filed criminal charges against four people tied to a towing operation accused of using “predatory practices” to target drivers who left cars at a Northridge parking lot.
From September 2014 to January 2015, drivers for Valley Impound Garage towed 10 vehicles from a lot abutting a small row of stores on Reseda Boulevard to another lot across the street, then demanded that drivers pay to get their cars back, according to Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer.
A criminal complaint filed Friday in L.A.
The more than 600 rounds that Stockton police fired during a rolling gun battle with bank robbers last year that left a hostage dead by officers’ bullets was “excessive” and “unnecessary,” an independent review found.
The Police Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., released a detailed report Monday on how Stockton police responded to the July 16, 2014, armed robbery of a Bank of the West branch, where three gunmen took three women hostage and fired at officers from a speeding SUV.
It was hailed as a modern makeover of an aging, inefficient way to bill customers. Instead, the new system at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power became a nightmare, spewing out thousands of faulty bills, some wildly inflated.
When upset customers called the utility for help, many languished on hold for a half-hour or more.
Traps set out near Yosemite National Park have failed so far to catch an elusive bear that attacked a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran outside his home in Mariposa County.
Larry Yepez, 66, told the "Today" show that his Marine skills came in handy as he fought off the 200-pound black bear. He woke about 4 a.m. Thursday to go to the restroom and heard a noise outside.
More than five years after authorities charged the man they claim is the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killer, the court case involving the killings of 10 women in South L.A. has devolved into this: eye rolls, sighs and laughter.
Amid repeated delays in the start of the trial, sniping between attorneys for the prosecution and defense took center stage Monday, provoking some relatives of slain victims to laugh aloud as they watched the courtroom squabbling.
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