VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A 91-year-old Southern California woman was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies responding to a break-in report at her home after she pointed a shotgun at them,...

APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman has pleaded not guilty to smothering her infant daughter in March and causing the death of her other baby girl three years...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A plan to build a high-speed train between Southern California and Las Vegas got a boost Tuesday after the rail company in charge of the project received permission to build...

EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — Human remains found on the Humboldt County shoreline were identified as those of a Southern California man who disappeared last month.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Video has confirmed that a Black man found hanging from a tree at a Southern California homeless encampment killed himself after breaking up with his girlfriend, it was...

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in the Southern California city of Palmdale are investigating the death of a 24-year-old black man found hanging from a tree near City Hall, which they...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence has hired a new president.

Ronald Graham assumed the post Monday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Graham is the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Los Angeles police officer with felony assault with a firearm Wednesday after he allegedly shot a fellow officer during an off-duty, weekend camping trip....

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school district will pay $28.5 million in damages after a boy with special needs was hit by a car and severely injured while under the supervision...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California dam could fail during an extreme storm and send water flooding into Mojave Desert communities that are home to about 300,000 people, authorities said...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Southern California sheriff's deputy was injured as she struggled with a man who grabbed her gun in a confrontation recorded on video.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been convicted of planting a pipe bomb beneath his wife's vehicle six years ago in an attempt to kill her and the couple's two...

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say they have recovered the body of a California teenager who apparently drowned after jumping off a cliff at Arizona's Lake Havasu.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have ended their hunt for the body of a 6-year-old boy following a two-month search at a Southern California landfill.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A search has resumed at a Mojave Desert landfill where authorities believe the body of a 6-year-old boy is buried.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff's detectives, volunteers and search dogs combed a Mojave Desert landfill Tuesday for remains of a 6-year-old Southern California boy as his mother and aunt were...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on murder charges filed in the case of a missing Southern California boy (all times local):

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say eight people have been injured at a federal prison in Victorville but details remain sketchy.

The San Bernardino County Fire Department says there...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a prison guard has been arrested on suspicion of taking cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into a Southern California...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have identified a San Bernardino County deputy who fatally shot a woman after they say she drove her car toward him.

The sheriff's department says Deputy Jaime Pulido shot 36-year-old Lajuana Phillips on Oct. 2 near a Victorville used-car lot.

The department says Phillips became angry after going to the lot to complain about a car she had bought, punching one man and threatening to kill employees.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect has been shot and killed by sheriff's deputies responding to reports of an assault in Southern California.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the woman, who was not immediately identified, died at the scene Tuesday in Victorville.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Murder charges have been filed against four inmates accused of beating to death another man at a federal prison in California.

Authorities say the indictment unsealed Tuesday charges the men with first-degree murder and conspiracy in the 2013 killing of a 38-year-old inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Victorville.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Uzbek refugee serving 25 years in prison for plotting to help a foreign terrorist group has been sentenced to another 20 years for trying to kill a federal prison warden in California.

Fazliddin Kurbanov was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles. Prosecutors say he acknowledged fashioning a knife and trying to slit the warden's throat at a federal prison in Victorville.

Calvin Johnson, the warden, recovered from the 2016 attack.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four people have been arrested after a woman's skeletal remains were found inside a trash can at a Southern California home.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday identified the woman as 47-year-old Judith Ornelas.

Officials say Ornelas had been dead for more than a year at the time the skeleton was discovered July 8 in Victorville. The trash can was partially filled with cement.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — An 81-year-old Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting his 76-year-old wife.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says Hyae Yu was found suffering from a gunshot wound Sunday inside a home in Victorville. She died at the scene.

William Yu was arrested at the home and could face one count of murder. It wasn't known Thursday if he has an attorney.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two people got more than they paid for when a thrill ride at a small Southern California amusement park got stuck with the pair 165 feet in the air.

The San Bernardino County Fire Department says the Sky Screamer ride got stuck Sunday night at the Scandia park in the high desert city of Victorville.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say deputies investigating illegal cockfighting seized at least 20 roosters and uncovered a sophisticated marijuana growing operation at a Southern California home.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy arrested for pretending to be a sheriff's deputy launched phony investigations and pulled people over while driving around his Southern California neighborhood in an SUV equipped with flashing blue and red lights, authorities said.

The unidentified teen was taken into custody Tuesday after deputies found counterfeit money, fake guns, ballistic vests and other law enforcement-related items in his home, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say surveillance footage has led to the arrest of a suspect in the burglary and vandalism at the California Route 66 Museum.

The roadside attraction in Victorville east of Los Angeles reported more than $5,000 in thefts and damage following the break-in last week.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities say a man suspected in a string of carjackings in two states has been arrested in Utah.

Police say the carjackings started Friday after the man dropped a female acquaintance with a stab wound off at a hospital in San Bernardino.

Sgt. Steve Turner says investigators believe the man injured the woman, who is expected to survive.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Three people have been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a 12-year-old Southern California girl.

The Daily Press newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/2wPJRmD) Anthony Pitts, Danielle Campbell and Reyna Mercado entered not guilty pleas at their arraignment Tuesday.

They were arrested following last week's shooting in Victorville. Officials said Makiya Walls was inside her home when shots smashed through the front window and struck her.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Three people were arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 12-year-old Southern California girl after a feud between one of the suspects and the girl's family, sheriff's officials said Friday.

The three suspects — Anthony Pitts, Danielle Cummings and Reyna Mercado — were arrested after Wednesday night's shooting in Victorville, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the death of a 12-year-old girl who was shot in her home (all times local):

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Authorities are looking for a gunman who walked up to a Southern California home and opened fire, killing a 12-year-old girl.

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials say Makiya Walls was inside a Victorville home when shots smashed through the front window and struck her Wednesday night.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities say a 12-year-old girl has died after being struck in an apparent drive-by shooting.

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials say the girl was inside a residence in Victorville when she was hit by several bullets Wednesday night.

Neighbors told reporters they heard multiple gunshots.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Southern California have arrested a mother they say left her four toddlers in a parked car during triple-digit heat.

San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies responding in inland Victorville around midday Wednesday discovered three girls and a boy trapped in the hot car. Temperatures in the area topped 100 degrees.

Investigators believe the kids, ranging in age from 1 to 3, were inside for about 30 minutes with the engine off and the windows rolled up.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 57-year-old man sought in Las Vegas after a shooting at a dominoes game that left two people dead and a third badly wounded has been arrested in California.

Records showed that Frederick Douglas Martin was arrested Tuesday near Victorville, California, and was being held Thursday in a San Bernardino County jail pending a court appearance for an extradition hearing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Missouri, postal carrier has been ordered to spend three years in federal prison for her role in distributing PCP.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors in Southern California say a federal prison guard has pleaded guilty to kicking a handcuffed inmate in the head and then lying about it.

Thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Flores was convicted Friday in Riverside.

Federal prosecutors say Flores worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was supervising inmates at a women's prison camp in Victorville in June 2013 when she "initiated a physical altercation" with an inmate.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect who slipped out of handcuffs and escaped from the back seat of a patrol car in Southern California has been caught in Nevada.

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials say 31-year-old Charles Brown was arrested Tuesday in Las Vegas.