A San Francisco deputy sheriff is facing charges over an off-duty incident where investigators say she forced her way into a man's home, brandished a pistol and threatened him.
A California pastor has resigned in wake of a scandal involving a registered sex offender who was allowed to work as a Catholic school festival volunteer.
Federal authorities say four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas and in the United States by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Officials say thousands of people showed up and waited in lines stretching for ten blocks to get a free Thanksgiving turkey and canned food in Sacramento on Monday.
A Los Angeles federal judge has denied a Christian group's bid for an injunction to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to private displays, including Christmas Nativity scenes.
California Highway Patrol officers wrapping up a deadly Los Angeles freeway crash ran to the scene of a second nearby crash and pulled a man from a burning car.
A newspaper is reporting that state and federal officials are conducting parallel investigations into allegations of wrongdoing by some nurses at a Soledad prison.
The city of Santa Monica has allowed an elaborate nativity scene in its Palisades Park each Christmas for nearly 60 years, but officials are ending the tradition this year after an atheist set up his own non-religious display and caused an uproar.