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Authorities say an Amtrak passenger train carrying 190 passengers derailed after striking a vehicle on tracks in Southern California

Julian Sands, whose remains were found Saturday and identified this week five months after he went missing while hiking near Mount Baldy in Southern California, emerged in the 1980s with a cohort of other actors who rode a British cinematic rebirth to Hollywood stardom. Those peers and sometime co-stars included…

What's killing sea lions, dolphins along Southern California coast?

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 marine mammals along the Southern California coast have gotten sick or died this month due to a bloom of toxic algae, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Authorities say the latest search for missing actor Julian Sands on Southern California’s massive Mount Baldy was unsuccessful

Gusty winds, combined with a drop in humidity, have increased the risk of fire across inland valleys and desert regions of Southern California until at least Tuesday, according to a fire weather forecast issued Sunday.

At least six people are dead and dozens injured in a string of weekend violence and mass shootings across the U.S. The shootings — in Chicago, Washington state, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore — follow a surge of violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated…

Conservatives exult in a new culture-war coalition — but how long can right-wing Christians and Muslims coexist?

LOS ANGELES — Max Park spent about 10 seconds studying the jumbled Rubik's Cube in front of him at the Pride in Long Beach World Cube Association competition last weekend.