California

A game of ding-dong-ditch turned deadly Sunday night after a group of teens knocked on the wrong door, according to the mother of one of the victims.

An inmate in a central California prison bashed a convicted child molester over the head with a cane last week, inflicting an injury so severe that it later killed him – cutting the man’s life-sentence short, officials said Monday.

A family of three was pulled to safety after falling through an icy lake in Big Bear. 

The Los Angeles Police Department supervisor who fatally shot an unarmed man near the border between Los Angeles and Culver Citymistook a bicycle part in his hand for a gun, police reported.

Her friends then used Snapchat's location service to figure out that she was that she was at the E-Z 8 Motel at 1550 N. First St. in San Jose and called 911. 

“We shared the videos and photos with several of our wildlife biologists, and none of them could recall ever seeing five mountain lions together," said Peter Tira, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

A mother in California says she was viciously beaten by the girl who had been bullying her 16-year-old daughter, according to various local reports.

A Ferrari crashed into a popular restaurant in West Hollywood Saturday afternoon. 

A dash-cam video captures the moment an SUV plunged off the cliff from Highway 1 in San Mateo County.

A Santa Clarita rescue group went to great lengths to save a mother and her eight babies…the family of nine is actually a pig and her eight little piglets. 

Lee Mendelson, the producer who changed the face of the holidays when he brought “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to television in 1965 and wrote the lyrics to its signature song, “Christmas Time Is Here,” died on Christmas day, his son said.

The three young men killed, all sixteen years old, were identified by the Alameda County Coroner's office as Javier Ramirez, Mark Anthony Urista and Michael Angelo Urista.

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Babe Ruth has hit another one out of the ballpark.

Police in Ventura are urging residents to say "no" to panhandlers.

A Los Amgeles Police Department officer has been arrested and charged with one felony count of having sexual contact with human remains without authority.

Federal agents in California found 11 Chinese nationals hiding inside appliances and furniture that filled a moving truck crossing the border from Mexico over the weekend.

A photo of a display taken outside Claremont United Methodist Church which shows the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph separated at the border is going viral. 

Ten undocumented immigrants were hospitalized for hypothermia after a large group was rescued from storm waters inside a drain near the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said. 

A California state senator wants to make it a crime to send unwanted nude photos to people online or in text messages.

Four people were killed and several others were injured in what police are calling a "mass casualty shooting" in Fresno.