Kate Mather

Residents in several usually quiet Orange County neighborhoods were rocked Tuesday morning by a series of slayings and violent carjackings that authorities said left at least four dead, including the suspect, and others wounded....

San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies are looking into whether a semiautomatic pistol found near where Christopher Dorner crashed a getaway car Tuesday belonged to the ex-police officer....

Many Big Bear residents have spent days on edge, wondering if Christopher Dorner was still lurking in the woods....

City officials look at the Northridge home in the 17400 block of Devonshire Street and see the site where four people were shot and killed over the weekend as a dirty, unlicensed boarding care facility. Scott Sauers, 24, said he sees it as a second...

A cold front moving through Ventura and Los Angeles counties brought the overnight showers Monday is expected to linger until late Tuesday morning, after which dry, but cold, period should take hold for much of the week. After the rain moves out,...

The names of the four people found shot to death outside a Northridge home early Sunday were released Thursday by authorities. Los Angeles County coroner's officials identified the victims as Amanda Ghossein, 24, of Monterey Park; Jennifer Kim, 26, of...

They might be known as the "knock-knock" burglars, but police say they're no joke. Los Angeles authorities are trying to track down the owners of more than 11,000 items recovered from burglary suspects busted earlier this year, the L.A. Times reported....

Los Angeles police detectives have arrested four people in Las Vegas in connection with a quadruple homicide in Northridge, Chief Charlie Beck announced Tuesday. The four people were taken into custody without incident at the Silverton Hotel and Casino,...

Two transition roads at the Ventura (134) and Foothill (210) freeways in Pasadena were closed early Monday after a big-rig jackknifed on a slick roadway, sending one trailer and cab down an embankment. The crash was reported to the California Highway...

A 16-year-old student at Taft Union High School near Bakersfield had intended targets when he burst into a classroom Thursday and shot a boy in the chest and attempted to fire a 12-gauge shotgun at another student, authorities said....

Authorities praised the heroic actions of school officials that prevented further bloodshed after a 16-year-old student at Taft Union High School near Bakersfield burst into a classroom Thursday. He allegedly shot a boy in the chest and attempted to fire....

A 16-year-old boy was in critical condition after a classmate interrupted a first-period class at Taft Union High School southwest of Bakersfield, confronted him by name and fired a round from a 12-gauge shotgun into his upper body, authorities said.........