California

Thousands of fans gathered outside Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles Sunday afternoon to remember Kobe Bryant, killed in a helicopter crash, along with his daughter and 7 others on board. The crash happened Sunday morning in Calabasas. 

Rising 13-year-old basketball star Gianna Bryant and her dad, retired NBA legend Kobe Bryant, were among the nine victims killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas Sunday morning, officials said. 

A California woman died Friday after her clothing got caught in a raisin processing machine, police said.

A 65-year-old woman and her 19-year-old granddaughter were arrested at the California-Mexico border on suspicion of trying to get a vehicle containing more than 200 pounds of meth through the border.

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.

Yosemite's Horsetail Fall will light up with bright orange and red hues that resemble cascading fire for a few days in February.

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.