Fire death toll rises as officials urge people to heed evacuation warnings
As the Butte fire bore down on communities along the Sierra Nevada foothills, there were plenty of people who chose to stay put.
As the Butte fire bore down on communities along the Sierra Nevada foothills, there were plenty of people who chose to stay put.
An oil field linked to chronic respiratory illnesses in South Los Angeles has moved a step closer to resuming operations by paying $144,250 to settle air quality violations.
Residents' complaints about the smell of marijuana wafting through their Burbank neighborhood led police to a warehouse with more than 1,200 plants worth about $500,000, authorities said Thursday.
The preliminaries are over for Loyola. Mission League play begins next week with a home game against Gardena Serra.
Before dawn broke across Southern California beaches, the anticipated tsunami waves from a massive 8.3 earthquake off the coast of Chile that rocked the South American country arrived.
In the spin room, like the carnival, everyone wins.
The Natural History Museum's latest exhibit, "Mummies: New Secrets From the Tombs," uses interactive touch tables to do virtually what visitors might not want to do in reality: Unwrap the cloth of 19 ancient mummies from Egypt and Peru.
Soon after Denise Huskins' boyfriend told the Vallejo Police Department that she had been abducted in late March, police officials called her disappearance part of a hoax.
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission recommended Thursday that the Obama administration release immigrant families who have illegally crossed into the United States mainly from Central America and are being held in detention centers where there have been complaints of poor food, inadequate medical...
Einar H. Ingman Jr., a Wisconsin farmer's son whose unflinching assault on two machine gun nests during the Korean War repelled more than 100 enemy troops and brought him the Medal of Honor, has died. He was 85.
A new pressure point built up along Europe's migrant trail Thursday as Croatia found itself overwhelmed by thousands of asylum seekers heading north and said it could handle no more.
Actor Goran Visnjic, who gained fame on the television series "ER," has listed a rambling home in Hollywood Hills for sale at $4.58 million.
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On Keith Richards' first solo album in over 20 years, "Crosseyed Heart," the Rolling Stones co-founder crafts songs using the same tools and templates he's employed throughout his creative life: blues, early rock 'n' roll, classic country & western and a pinch of reggae.
He's been called a speed freak, dubbed the "patron sheik" of drag racing. But over the weekend, he was just the owner of a yellow Ferrari valued in the seven figures seen on a video posted to social media running amok in a Beverly Hills' neighborhood, speeding through stop signs and racing by pedestrians,...
The Obama administration is concerned that Myanmar has disqualified about 100 candidates for upcoming parliamentary elections, apparently including many members of its minority Muslim community, the latest sign that the country's rulers are resisting democratic reforms.
Dwayne Johnson and girlfriend Lauren Hashian are reportedly expecting a baby -- their first together and his second child.
The displaced people went from fleeing flames to shivering in tents in the rain. Now, evacuees of the deadly wildfires in Northern California, hundreds of them living in tent camps, will face a heat wave this weekend.
A Saturday fall basketball league takes place this weekend, with games scheduled for Maranatha, Dorsey, Warren, St. Francis and Cathedral.
An official says a friend of the white man who shot nine black churchgoers to death has been arrested.
The Obama administration has approved a nearly $1-billion settlement with hundreds of Native American tribes, apparently ending a quarter-century of litigation over the failure to reimburse the tribes for providing services that are the federal government's responsibility.
Chloe Grace Moretz is on a mission to take back the Earth from alien invaders in "The 5th Wave."
"The Primetime Emmys" Just as the new fall season roars into view, the Emmys remind us just how much great TV there is already. There were new faces and names on the lists of nominees, but will any of them make it to podium or will Andy Samberg oversee yet another evening of ridiculous repeats...
The state's campaign finance watchdog agency on Thursday adopted new requirements that nonprofit groups that contribute through a federal political action committee to support or oppose ballot measures or candidates in California must disclose their donors.
The corruption scandal that has rocked FIFA for the last four months claimed its highest-ranking official Thursday when world soccer's governing body announced that Secretary General Jerome Valcke has been suspended after it was revealed he was the focus of a potentially lucrative deal involving...