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May 25, 2019

Real estate title firm's lapse exposes data in 885M files

A security lapse at a major real estate title company exposed the bank account numbers and other sensitive information ...

May 20, 2019

Man pleads guilty to taking lemur from California zoo

Federal prosecutors say a man has agreed to plead guilty to stealing a ring-tailed lemur from a Southern California zoo.

May 18, 2019

Mongols biker club fined $500,000 but keeps logo trademarks

A federal judge on Friday fined the Mongols motorcycle club $500,000 in a racketeering and conspiracy case but refused the ...

April 29, 2019

Avenatti pleads not guilty on charges of cheating, lying

Attorney Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he stole millions of dollars from clients, cheated on his ...

April 22, 2019

California police say teen lured to assault with dating app

California police say a teenage victim of sexual assault was lured through a dating app. KABC-TV reports that Santa Ana ...

April 15, 2019

Memorial at Nixon Library for Ed Nixon, president's brother

Ed Nixon, the younger brother of President Richard Nixon who spent years promoting his brother's legacy, was remembered at ...

April 09, 2019

California sees shift in immigration detention contracts

A Southern California desert community has backed out of a contract for the state's largest immigration detention facility ...

April 08, 2019

Uganda police say kidnapped US woman and driver are freed

Ugandan police said on Sunday they had rescued an American woman and her driver who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a ...

April 02, 2019

Avenatti confident 'justice will be done' in his fraud case

Michael Avenatti is insistent that "justice will be done" after facing fraud charges Monday in federal court in California, ...

April 02, 2019

The Latest: Avenatti says he's confident he'll get justice

The Latest on federal criminal charges against attorney Michael Avenatti (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Attorney Michael ...

March 27, 2019

Fraud charges followed Avenatti's public financial feuds

Even before federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Michael Avenatti, the lawyer best known for representing porn ...

March 18, 2019

Police issue 'virtual kidnap' alerts to California schools

Police in a seaside California city have alerted local schools to two "virtual kidnap" cases in 24 hours. Laguna Beach police ...

March 01, 2019

Judge won't make Mongols biker gang surrender trademark logo

A California judge delivered a blow Thursday to a decade-long effort by federal prosecutors to strip the Mongols motorcycle ...

February 21, 2019

Girl's death haunted police until arrest made 45 years later

Investigators searched for decades for the killer of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared while walking home from summer ...

February 11, 2019

9 hurt when DUI suspect drives onto sidewalk in California

Witnesses and emergency responders lifted a pickup truck off people trapped when a driver plowed into a crowd on a sidewalk ...

February 06, 2019

Police: Pilot in fatal California crash had fake records

The man piloting a small plane that broke apart over a Southern California neighborhood had false credentials identifying him ...

February 04, 2019

Plane breaks apart in California, killing 5 and injuring 2

Five people died and two were injured after a small plane apparently came apart Sunday over a suburban Southern California ...

February 01, 2019

20 charged in Chinese birth tourism crackdown

Dongyuan Li's business was called "You Win USA," and authorities say she coached pregnant Chinese women on how to get into ...

January 23, 2019

Detective: Florida school shooting deputy statement faulty

A Florida detective told investigators the former deputy entrusted to protect a high school where 17 people died in a mass ...