California

A quick-thinking American Airlines employee saved two girls from possible sex trafficking after acting on some clear warning signs.

19-year-old Lizette Andrea Cuesta used her last hours to tell authorities "pertinent information" that led to the arrest of two murder suspects, authorities say.

A separate database that contained personal details of 53,000 current and former Sacramento Bee subscribers was also compromised.

California State Assemblymember Garcia has been accused of harassing the man during an annual softball game.

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

Coffee chain Starbucks has been hit with a lawsuit from the parents of a two-year-old child who allegedly drank from a coffee up that allegedly contained a barista's blood.

William Cordoba claimed that a female prison instructor coerced him into sex acts by promising to help him find a lawyer so he could get out of prison.

Police in California have said a driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after they responded to a traffic accident that totalled a Lamborghini.

Jeanne Heo from Los Angeles was approached by a man in North Hollywood who asked where she was from and if she "spoke English".

A Girl Scout has become an internet sensation after sell over 300 boxes of cookies when she set up outside one of California's new legal weed dispensaries.

Oklahoma may soon be added to a list of states that give the option of chemical castration as punishment for sex offenders.

Police in Humboldt County, California were on the lookout for a reality TV contestant who was reported missing by her own mother.

Four alleged members of Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders in California, Florida and Virginia over the past year.

Police in west LA suburb of West Corvina called out to round up farm animals on the run. Donkey accused of being the ringleader.

Police in Stockton, California, are hunting for an 11-year-old boy after the attempted armed robbery of an ARCO petrol station on Monday (22 January).

Authorities have examined a letter claiming to be from a man who escaped from the notorious prison facility in 1963.

Tom Petty died from a combination of prescription medicines used to combat severe pain, coroner's report revealed.

Helen Grace James, from Pennsylvania, received an 'honourable discharge' after a 60-year battle with authorities.

David Turpin was listed as the principal of the Sandcastle Day School at his home, where children were found shackled to furniture

Pressure group describes America's largest state as "ungovernable". California is America's largest state by population and economy.

Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Blaze Bernstein, 19, was stabbed to death and buried in a shallow grave at a California park.

Police arrested David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin in California after they allegedly found 13 siblings aged from 2 to 29-years-old being held captive.

A car flipped in the air and landed into the second floor of a building in Orange County, California.

Emergency services in Santa Ana, California responded after a car hit a central divide at speed and flew into the air, becoming wedged in the second floor of a dental office.

A week after flash storms sent mud cascading through mountain slopes, progress is slowly being made with the massive clear-up operation.

Gonzalo Curiel, 20, and Tami Joy Huntsman, 42, face charges of murder and torturing three children then hiding their bodies in a storage unit.

Police in California released helicopter footage that appears to show a laser pointer being shone at the aircraft - which then tracked the suspect until he was arrested.

Four people have been left temporarily homeless after a man set his apartment ablaze trying to kill a spider with a blowtorch.

The death toll from the mudslides that swept through Santa Barbara county is expected to rise as rescue workers search for an unknown number people still unaccounted for.

The mud was unleashed in the dead of night by flash flooding in the steep, fire-scarred Santa Ynez Mountains.