A man who pleaded no contest to shooting at a home in southeast Bakersfield and pointing a gun at a deputy was sentenced Tuesday. Court records say Juan Jose ...

A man who helped lead an MS-13 clique in New York pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal racketeering case involving seven murders, including the 2016 killings of two high ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s choice for Defense secretary, on Tuesday emerged largely unscathed from an at times ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, ...

Stressing his own organization’s ability to pay out $1.2 billion over 10 years to help settle an industry-changing lawsuit, ...

Melissa Rivers recalled how swiftly the California wildfires spread, forcing the county’s Ready, Set, Go evacuation plan to ...

The House is barreling toward a contentious debate over disaster relief for California as many — but not all — Republicans ...

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did ...

New York’s Breanna Stewart was one of a handful of players given the franchise tag by their WNBA teams, meaning they can’t sign a contract directly with anyone else. Other players ...

A man who had two prior “strike” offenses when he attacked a neighbor who was heading to work was sentenced Tuesday to a life term in prison, ...