A man has been charged with murder on suspicion of killing his neighbours at a California nudist resort, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson has announced.
Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said.
A California judge ruled Monday that a man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996 must pay more than $529,000 (USD$350,000) to her family for costs they incurred after her death.
Taylen Robert Claude Brooks, 21, was killed Saturday in a remote area northeast of Sacramento in the first fatal encounter with a mountain lion in the state in two decades.
Massive waves and coastal flooding are wreaking havoc for a third day in many of California's coastal communities, where extreme conditions have forced water rescues, washed away cars and injured a handful of enthralled onlookers.
A California inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his serial killer cellmate two years ago, officials said.
Australian man Luke Nardini who has been charged with manslaughter over a deadly crash in San Francisco has been ordered to stay in California while he awaits a further court date.
US authorities are continuing the search for a missing swimmer feared dead in a suspected shark attack along California's Point Reyes National Seashore.
As Southern California braced for a highly unusual summer storm on Sunday afternoon, residents were struck by a much more familiar phenomenon: a magnitude 5.1 earthquake.
Human remains were found on Saturday in Southern California near the area where investigators have been searching for missing British actor Julian Sands, according to authorities.
A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada in California, a rare occurrence for an animal that's only been seen one other time in the US state over the last 100 years, state wildlife officials said.
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A magnitude 5.5 quake centered in the Sierra Nevada's Lake Almanor resort region struck at 4.19 pm Thursday and a magnitude 5.2 aftershock occurred at 3.18 am Friday, according to the US Geological Survey.
A man accused of killing one person and injuring five others in a 2022 shooting at a church in California's Orange County has been indicted by a grand jury on federal charges.