A record-setting Christmas storm battering Southern California brought rushing floods that have already killed at least three people. Water and debris, along with mudslides, have led to evacuation orders

Several lanes of the 5 Freeway were closed and a shelter-in-place order was issued to residents in Castaic, California, after a gas line ruptured on Saturday.

Authorities seized a substantial amount of narcotics and firearms during a large-scale drug bust in Southern California. The operation was a joint effort by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Bureau, the Drug Enforcement Administration ...

The deaths occurred in Riverside, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, and include shootings, explosions and on-duty traffic collisions.

A frantic video shows a chaotic street fight in Lancaster, Southern California moments before a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on Christmas Day in a blaze of gunfire that also injured four others — as a woman holding a toddler is seen looking on in fear.

Law enforcement is struggling to keep up with the proliferation of cargo theft cases as criminals become more technologically savvy.