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A 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.

Roman Polanski seemed to have little to lose last summer when his lawyers pressed to dismiss the child rape case in California that has haunted him since he fled to France three decades ago.

Six defendants accused in the gang rape of a 16-year-old Northern California girl have pleaded not guilty.

Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.

California police investigating the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance have arrested five people, a police spokesman said today.

Four days after receiving a nine-month jail sentence for touching the breasts of six women patients, a San Jose dentist was arraigned Monday on a grand jury indictment of a more serious charge of lewd and lascivious acts on a 14-year-old girl.

A Southern California teenager has serious bragging rights: After docking back in his home state late Thursday morning, Zac Sunderland, 17, can claim to be the youngest person to sail around the world alone.

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.

The family of a missing 14-year old California girl launched an all-out search Sunday morning that extended into the local mountains, television news station San Diego 6 reports.