A PG&E effort to ask the California Legislature to help the company pay off wildfire claims fell flat this year at the state Capitol.

A La Habra police officer was injured Thursday when the driver of a vehicle that had been reported stolen rammed his patrol car. Officials said officers were sent to the 900 block of West Las Lomas Drive to check out a vehicle that was parked in the area for over an hour with people inside….

A 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for her role in a Santa Ana carjacking and robbery in which the motorist was shot despite turning over the vehicle’s keys. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped a more serious charge of attempted murder that would have…

Dozens of students at El Modena High School held a rally on campus Thursday morning, Sept. 12 in support of a 15-year-old special needs student who died in a golf cart crash earlier this week. News cameras captured the students’ demands for new staff members at the school and for details about what happened to…

Former Santa Ana Councilman Roman Reyna pleaded guilty Thursday to election fraud, admitting that he falsely claimed to have lived in his residence for at least 30 days before pulling papers to run for office. As part of a plea agreement, Reyna was ordered to pay $578,053.16. The money will cover the cost of a…

Eric Lertzman, 60, shot and killed his wife and son before taking his own life, authorities say.

California boat fire: Authorities hope to finally raise burned remains of Conception

Jarrid Wilson, a young pastor at Greg Laurie’s Southern California megachurch Harvest Christian Fellowship who was known for his mental health advocacy, died by suicide, the church announced this week.

The LAPD says it found the bodies of a man and woman in their 60s and a man in his 20s.