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The gun used in a shooting at Saugus High School that left three students dead and three others injured was a kit gun, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a tweet Thursday.

A decade after a 24-year-old woman with bipolar disorder was released from custody and whose remains were found nearly a year later in the Malibu hills, friends and family pressed Friday for a new investigation into what happened to Mitrice Richardson.

Homemade ghost guns are lurking on SoCal streets. Lolita Lopez explains what they are and the threat they pose.

A convicted child abuser faces a murder charge in the death of a girl whose body was found in a duffel bag on a trail east of Los Angeles.

A body found in a duffel bag on a hiking trail in Hacienda Heights, California, was identified as that of a 9-year-old girl Sunday, and two people have been detained as persons of interest in the case, according to authorities.

The death of a girl whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag off an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights was ruled a homicide, sheriff’s officials said Friday.

A vigil was held Thursday night for a girl whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag off an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights.

A massive wildfire that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes in Northern California has been fully contained after burning for more than two weeks, authorities said Sunday.

A woman was charged with attempted murder Thursday in an attack on a 92-year-old man who was struck with a concrete brick and berated on a Southern California sidewalk.

Mark Hough had barely taken a sip of his Friday afternoon margarita when he heard twigs snapping and leaves rustling in his lush Altadena, California, backyard.

The older brother of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy who was allegedly tortured and killed by his mother and her boyfriend in May 2013 recounted a harrowing tale of abuse Wednesday, telling a jury that his sibling was forced to eat cat litter and cat feces and was repeatedly beaten in the months leading up to his death.

A man who was registering as a sex offender Monday morning at a Los Angeles sheriff’s station opened fire on deputies when they followed him from the lobby and back out to his vehicle, leading to a parking lot gun battle, according to investigators.

Sheriff’s homicide detectives were investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of an infant in a Westmont neighborhood Saturday.

Four people, including three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, were hospitalized Saturday night after being sickened by a chemical at a drug lab on the outskirts of Palmdale, officials said.