When it comes to dieting, sometimes it’s easier to take it off than keep it off. But we found a woman in Sacramento, California, who not only lost half her size ... but has keep it off for six years.

Michael Jackson’s will names Diana Ross as successor trustee to Jackson’s mother.

Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector, 69, has been moved to a California prison to serve his sentence of 19 years to life for killing actress Lana Clarkson.

Summer means summer camps, including one in California aimed specifically at girls. With power tools, soldering guns, and safety glasses, these kids see that technology isn’t all algorithms, pocket protectors, and computer code.

This summer, the key words are “quick” and “easy.“ But you still want a trip that delivers. So, hit the road! These seven drives are real getaways—even if they take you only a few hours from home.

California authorities say a man wanted on a murder warrant in Kansas is in critical condition with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he barricaded himself inside a motel room.

Despite retaining her title last month after controversy over topless photos, missed appearances and her statements against same-sex marriage.
Carrie Prejean has been dethroned as Miss California USA for “contract violations,“ including missing scheduled pageant events, according to a state pageant official.

With the help of technology a San Francisco teen, in middle of his third phase of chemotherapy, was able to virtually attend his high school graduation from his hospital room.

One sheriff’s investigator says people who normally wouldn’t steal a piece of candy but are driven to desperation, have been reporting their cars stolen or torching, sinking or ditching their vehicles, to cash in on the insurance.

Tens of thousands of tiny toads have been hopping across streets, lawns and patios in Marysville, California.

A California high school student scored a perfect 2400 on her SATs. Diana Li started studying in January for the test, when schoolwork, dance team, science Olympiad and Chinese cultural school didn’t get in the way.

A California appeals court reversed a ruling that ordered Starbucks Corp. to pay millions in restitution to baristas who had to share their tips with shift supervisors.

Police have arrested a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter on charges of felony pimping and kidnapping and are looking into whether he used sex with a 14-year-old girl to entice potential recruits.

Economist Clive W.J. Granger, who shared a Nobel Prize for work that changed how analysts look at financial data, has died in San Diego. He was 74.

A California husband, wife and her son have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of a bank teller and taking her to work to steal money from the vault.