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A 30-year-old Northern California woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she had sex with three teenage boys.

California teenagers may be spared having to lug back-breaking loads of textbooks to school under a proposal that would make it easier for campuses to use electronic instructional material.

Firefighters got a temporary assist from the weather in their battle against a blaze that has destroyed 80 homes and forced thousands ...

A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said today.

Carrie Prejean says racy photos posted on Internet meant to "belittle" her faith.

Actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, whose big screen classics included “The Cannonball Run,” “Spaceballs” and “History of the World Part I,” died on Monday night at a Los Angeles hospital, Access Hollywood has confirmed. He was 75.

Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family's home, tied up his ...

Seven people have pleaded guilty in California to providing material support to an Iraq-based terrorist organization.

A Southern California woman said Wednesday that her late father was the infamous Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco ...

American health officials on Sunday declared a public health emergency over increasing cases of swine flu, saying that they had confirmed 20 cases of the disease in the United States and expected to see more as investigators fan out to track down the path of the outbreak.

Officials said they had confirmed eight cases in New York, seven in California, two in Kansas, two in Texas and one in Ohio, and that the cases looked to be similar to the deadly strain of swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 1,300 more.