An Orange County sheriff’s deputy testified Tuesday that one of his peers at the Orange County Jail used what he called “holy water,” to burn the arm of a mentally ill defendant to get him to pull his ...

The case started when two girls allegedly found a hidden camera in Simon Meyer’s bathroom, and since then six more women and ...

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Photo of firefighters courtesy of Google Creative Commons The wildfires in LA have been raging nonstop for weeks. This ...

Curtis Marsh was found stabbed to death on his balcony, his apartment on fire. What happened is still puzzling investigators.

Four years after an arson fire destroyed his Salinas business, Lars Frieberg successfully lobbies for a change in how some security tech is permitted.

By Alexis Alvarez, Feb. 4, 2025 The voluntary and selective Conservation (Fire) Camp program, which sent out more than 1,000 prisoners to the frontlines of the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, often ...

California’s Democratic-dominated Assembly has endorsed up to $50 million in funding to defend the state’s progressive ...

Leslie Black, now 39, was convicted of the 2014 assault on Marlene Bird in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Beaten and burned, ...

Arrests have been made in two fires that broke out two weeks ago in San Diego, San Diego Police chief Scott Wahl told NBC 7.

Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, federal prosecutors ...

The Aussie's uncensored outfit sparked outrage online - but what does the California indecent exposure law state?