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LOS ANGELES — Retired Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna has an early edge over incumbent Alex Villanueva in the runoff for Los Angeles County sheriff, with support for the candidates falling largely along political lines, according to a new poll by the University of California, Berkeley co-sponsored by the…

California has a first-in-the nation law and a $30 million training program both aimed at trying to help former inmate firefighters turn pro after they are released from prison

Sarah Hyland, who plays Hayley Dunphy in Modern Family, has tied the knot with her beau Wells Adams in front of her former co-stars Sofia Vergara and Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Stars of the hit US comedy that attended the wedding included Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Nolan Gould

Nineteen migrants who were stranded in a disabled boat off the coast of Redondo Beach, California, were rescued by the Coast Guard on Saturday.

Plumes of smoke rose from the hills west of Nevada City, California, where the Pleasant fire ignited Saturday afternoon at 2:31 pm.

Preliminary findings from an independent autopsy suggest that a 23-year-old man who was killed by police in San Bernardino, California, last month was shot seven times from behind.

CERES, Calif. — By late morning it was already hot, but not nearly as scorching as it would be in just a few hours. Lourdes Cardenas, 59, had already walked nearly 8 dusty, sun-blasted miles from Turlock, with about that many more to go to the day’s destination in downtown…

With all that Byron Bay has become, it's remarkable to think that the same town was once an industrial hub with a piggery, an abattoir, sand mining and a whaling station — until surfers came along.

Police on Friday charged a 78-year-old Malibu, California, man identified as Gary Busey with three counts of sex crimes that they said took place during a Monster-Mania convention in a hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, earlier this month, authorities said in a news release.

Fry's, the quirky electronics stores with bizarre, giant sculptures, closed in 2021. Here's how "Nope" filmed there