California has some of the worst voter integrity in the country, but one candidate believes he can turn that situation around. Mark Meuser, a constitution and election law attorney, is running as a Republican for California secretary of state. He has promised that if he is elected, Californians will have much cleaner voter rolls and […]

A small 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Oakland, California on Monday evening, a Reuters witness and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. There were no immediate signs of damage from the quake, said Reuters witnesses in both Oakland and San Francisco. The quake struck about 1.8 miles (three km) east-northeast of Oakland, at a […]

Surveillance video from a business in South Bay shows the moment that their front window is shot out and shattered, targeted by people with BB guns. 12 different neighborhoods in San Jose were damaged by BB guns overnight on Tuesday, March 6. Little Portugal and Japan Town were among the damaged neighborhoods. In Little Portugal […]

LOS ANGELES–The threat of deadly mudslides from an impending Pacific storm prompted authorities on Thursday to order mandatory evacuations for some 30,000 people living adjacent to fire-scarred foothills and mountain slopes along California’s Santa Barbara coast. The evacuation was put into effect in the same general area where torrential rains on Jan. 9 unleashed cascades […]

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—The California parents accused of imprisoning their 13 children in the family’s squalid home had beaten, starved and chained the victims to their beds for years, taunting them with apple pie, according to a prosecutor on Thursday who called it a case of “human depravity.” The father, David Turpin, 57, is also accused of […]

Police in Southern California said that 13 brothers and sisters between the ages of 2 and 29 were kept inside a home, chained and padlocked to their beds, according to local reports. A 17-year-old girl, who appeared to be about 10, escaped from a home in Perris, located in Riverside County, and called police from […]

A large brawl broke out at a mall in Newark, California, on Saturday night, Jan. 13, over a missing cell phone that turned out to be sitting in the lost and found. A girl used her Find My iPhone app to locate her missing phone and ended up in front of John’s Incredible Pizza Company […]

A 28-year-old in California shot his mother in the head after a dispute during which his video game headset was broken, police said. Matthew Nicholson lived in Modesto, California, a city some 75 miles east of San Francisco. He was playing video games in his bedroom on Thursday, Jan. 11, when he got upset and […]

LOS ANGELES–At least 13 people died and thousands fled from their homes in Southern California on Tuesday as a powerful rainstorm triggered flash floods and mudslides on slopes where a series of intense wildfires burned off protective vegetation last month. Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after thousands of residents in Santa Barbara County […]

A young mountain lion that was found wandering in Ventura County, California, late last month with burned paws is getting treatment—with fish skin. The young cub, estimated to be about five months old, was spotted by residents in Santa Paula on Dec. 22. They reported it to the Santa Paula Police Department, and with the […]

Construction workers discovered human remains in the backyard of a vacant California home, according to authorities. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call about human bones that were dug up from the ground in the 6200 block of Dundee Drive within the area of north Sacramento County on Dec. 26. Construction workers and the […]

Police in Ukiah, California, received a domestic violence call on Christmas Eve and when they got to the scene, they found a man who was missing a chunk of his ear. The victim said a relative had bit it off during an argument that turned physical. At a little before 6 p.m., officers with the […]

A 30-foot humpback whale washed up on a California beach on Sunday, Dec. 24, and researchers are now trying to determine how it died. The cetacean was discovered by passersby at the North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore, about 15 miles southwest of Petaluma. Warning: the following images may be distressing to some The […]

Scientists from The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, perform a necropsy on a juvenile male humpback whale at North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017. A final determination into the animal’s cause of death has not yet been made. (The Marine Mammal Center)

San Diego police have arrested a 48-year-old mother who is suspected of supplying drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes to high school students. Kimberly Quach is accused of running a network of teenaged dealers who sold drugs to other students in the La Jolla and Carmel Valley area. Her $1.3 million home in Carmel Valley was known […]

An unusually wet rainy season is testing the limits of California's water management system, with reservoirs across the state reaching capacity.

The husband of Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman who went missing for three weeks, has passed a voluntary polygraph (lie-detector) test, a sheriff told the New York Post. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told the newspaper that Keith Papini “has been cooperative and even volunteered for a polygraph, which he passed.” Bosenko, however, didn’t […]

Sherri Papini, the mother of two from Northern California who was abducted and went missing for three weeks, moved to an undisclosed location with her family, the New York Post reported Monday, which added that the family left over the weekend and didn’t take their two dogs with them. A friend of Keith Papini, the […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The longtime Democratic congressman slated to become California’s next attorney general immediately took a combative stance against Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration after being named to the post, promising to defend the state’s liberal stances on recreational marijuana, climate change, health care, immigration, and criminal justice. “If you want to take on a […]

The husband of a Northern California woman revealed more details on his wife’s three-week alleged abduction. Sherri Papini, 34, disappeared on Nov. 2 after going for a run near Redding, Calif., and she wasn’t found until Thanksgiving Day about 150 miles south of her home. She had flagged down a driver, according to her husband, […]