Jessica Perez

For the abandoned dogs at Carson Animal Shelter, every day is an agonizing wait for somebody to come and take them home.

A pit bull named Pirate was out of the shelter Tuesday after the story went viral of a 6-year-old boy with autism reading to him.

A 23-year-old Lake Elsinore man accused of repeatedly molesting a girl at his family’s day care business was sentenced Friday to 30 years in state prison.

The Chicago Bears harassed Jared Goff and squashed the Los Angeles Rams’ high-powered offense while shuffling their way to a surprising victory over the team that came in with the NFL’s best record.

Grammy-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar was honored with a key to the city of Compton, his hometown, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016.

The wife of disgraced former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is looking for a way to lift his lifetime ban from the NBA and clear his name, NBC News reported. Sterling was banned for life from the league, and even prohibited from attending games, after tapes of him making racist comments surfaced in 2014. Sterling, who assailed the NBA...

Outstanding guard is entering final season of his rookie deal with Raiders

Former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has dropped a lawsuit that claimed the NBA, his wife and others conspired to illegally sell the team for $2 billion.Sterling’s lawyer, Bobby Samini, says he filed a request Friday to have the federal appeals case dismissed. Samini says a settlement was reached. He won’t reveal details but says Sterling’s “very happy with...

A preliminary 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck north of Barstow on Sunday, according to the USGS.

Residents were allowed to return home hours after a brush fire scorched more than 1,100 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley Saturday, forcing the evacuation of 700 homes in the Stevenson Ranch area, officials said.

A man who police say was trying to hide from someone ended up stuck in a chimney at a home in South LA early Thursday morning.

One person was killed and another was wounded when California Highway Patrol officers opened fire during a traffic stop in Fullerton Sunday night, officials said.

A 19-year-old UC Berkeley student has been identified as one of the 20 hostages killed in an attack at a cafe in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, officials said.

A vast and voracious wildfire in Kern County has scorched 57 square miles, destroyed at least 100 homes and killed an elderly couple as they tried to flee, authorities said Saturday.

The number of trees in California’s Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people’s lives, officials said Wednesday.

A firefight continues against a massive wildfire that has charred 7,648 acres in Santa Barbara County amid the start of a hot and windy weekend.

A scorching heat wave is headed for Southern California this weekend and early next week, prompting excessive heat watches and warnings as “dangerous” record-breaking temperatures are possible for some areas.

The father of a Cal State Long Beach student who was gunned down during the November terrorist attacks in Paris filed a lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google, alleging the social media sites have allowed terror groups to use their technology to spread propaganda and recruit members.

A car matching the description of a vehicle a man drove from Minnesota to Los Angeles to gun down his former professor at UCLA has been been found a few miles from the school, two days after the murder-suicide, police said.

A convicted felon on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby in Los Angeles last month has been captured, according to FBI officials.