Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a clothes dryer at the teen’s home

Authorities say the body of a missing 4-year-old California boy was found in the clothes dryer of a neighbor’s home and a 14-year-old boy from the house in Mendota has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

Police arrested another teen Thursday, the sixth suspect jailed in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on a northern California high school campus.

Police investigating the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl have arrested five people, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

A California high school student who police said was gang raped in a two-and-a-half-hour assault outside a homecoming dance remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday, two days after she was flown from the attack scene in critical condition.

Authorities in northern California found several hundred marijuana plants in a Stockton home and several hundred more growing in a nearby office. It was apparently a family operation involving a father, mother, and two sons. And now it appears that the profits may have paid for the kids’ education.

The San Francisco Police Department is reopening a 25-year-old homicide that may be linked to convicted killer Richard Ramirez, known during his 1984-85 spree as the Night Stalker.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new bill into law Sunday that will fine paparazzi for taking photos that invade a celebrity’s right to privacy. The law also targets media outlets who purchase the photos.

Solar panels are a hot commodity as more homes and business go ‘green’.  So hot, they’ve become a target of thieves.  And one of the hardest hit areas?  California’s wine country.

Investigators have found the knife believed to have been used in the stabbing of a University of California, Los Angeles student in a chemistry lab.

A magistrate judge on Monday granted bail for an Illinois man accused of surreptitiously taping sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude and posting the videos on the Internet.

Investigators said they found the bone last week on a neighbor’s property in an area that Dugard’s accused captor and rapist, Philip Garrido, had access to.

Police say the foster parents of a missing 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell, with cerebral palsy, are suspects in what is now being called a homicide investigation.

A Jaycee Dugard snatched from the street in front of her house at age 11 in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and lived in a secret backyard shed. E-mails show girl was integral part of business owned by her alleged kidnapper.

A California girl snatched from the street in front of her house at age 11 in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and lived in a secret backyard shed, authorities said. The 18-year mystery of what happened to Jaycee Dugard ended this week when she surfaced and corrections authorities said a sex offender admitted that he abducted her.