Five former detainees of San Francisco's Angel Island immigration station have been celebrated in Los Angeles.

Police say a woman tossed a dog out a third-story San Francisco apartment window.

The last of seven defendants charged in the 2007 shooting death of a three-week-old baby has been returned to Los Angeles from Mexico to face prosecution.

Authorities say a 3-year-old girl was killed and her mother was critically injured when they were hit by a stolen car in an unincorporated area of Anaheim.

A 19-year-old high school student has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to rape a teacher at his Redwood City charter school.

Federal authorities say two women have been charged with trying to smuggle cocaine inside pouches of salad dressing and syrup as they passed through Los Angeles International Airport.

A San Francisco man who had posted on a social networking site that he planned to provoke the police into killing him, an act known as “blue suicide” or “suicide by cop,” has been hospitalized following a confrontation in which officers were able to subdue him without firing their weapons.