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Authorities say a Metrolink commuter train has collided with a dump truck in Los Angeles, leaving 13 people with minor injuries.

Authorities say a Metrolink commuter train has collided with a dump truck in Los Angeles, causing 12 minor injuries.

Police in Mexico's Baja California state are searching for a U.S. man suspected in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was taken from her bedroom in Los Angeles, an official said Saturday.

A Mendocino County man wanted by federal authorities on drug charges for four years has been arrested in Berkeley.

The top prosecutor in Northern California's remote Del Norte County has been suspended without pay after a judge recommended he be disbarred.

The 27-year-old son of popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide at his Southern California home, Warren's church said in a statement on Saturday.

A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on a major threat to the industry: colony collapse disorder.

Authorities are trying to determine both the cause of death and the identity of a young woman whose body was found in the water at a popular surfing spot near the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A Utah man is trying to use his recognition as this year's national beekeeper of the year to focus attention on a major threat to the industry: colony collapse disorder.

Troy James Knapp was dodging authorities, again.

The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two - Arsenio Hall - to do the same for minorities.

A small plane attempting an emergency landing at the Big Bear Airport came up short of the runway Saturday and landed in Big Bear Lake instead.

You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving forward in its slow recovery from the recession.

Crime in Los Angeles decreased during the first three months of 2013, continuing what has been a trend in the nation's second-largest city for the past decade.

A 41-year-old Durango woman accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two people on a motorcycle has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The arrest of two men after they allegedly tried to make a purchase with counterfeit bills at a cigarette store in Hercules has led investigators to a collection of stolen mail from several California counties.

Riverside County sheriff's deputies are searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of two people in a home in a quiet, residential neighborhood in the Inland Empire city of Perris.

Authorities have identified four people killed when a man being pursued by police drove into opposing traffic on a South Florida highway.

Sparks police have arrested three men accused of stealing more than 350 cellphones from their employer.

This may be the year Congress decides what to do about the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. And this may be the week when a bipartisan group of senators makes public details of the overhaul plan it has been negotiating for months.

Police in Los Angeles and Mexico are working together to find a man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl before releasing her and fleeing across the border.

Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been charged with lying about a drug arrest after a surveillance video appeared to contradict their claims.

Officials say drivers are exploiting a glitch in the Golden Gate Bridge's transition from human toll takers to an all-electronic system.

The Federal Aviation Administration is delaying the closings of 11 control towers in California to deal with legal challenges to the closures.

Officials have identified the California man who drowned in waters off Kauai as Cristian Lung of Castro Valley.

Police say 2 missing, suicidal teenagers found safe in Southern California.

The Los Angeles Police Department says three former judges will decide whether anyone can lay claim to the $1 million reward for leading law enforcement officers to Christopher Dorner.

A federal judge has denied a request from former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's lawyers to reduce his prison sentence for a witness tampering conviction, but left the door open to an appeal.