More than 70,000 Orange County residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes as a wind-whipped wildfire that severely injured two firefighters continued to rage Tuesday at 5% containment.

Firefighters are battling a quickly spreading vegetation fire that broke out in the Santiago Canyon area near Irvine Monday morning, prompting mandatory evacuations amid strong winds.

"If the state of California is focusing on arresting 12-year-old children for missing 90 minutes of school in ten months, it's ridiculous."

Though one charge was dismissed, the other charges - unintentional second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter - still stand.

San Francisco supervisors passed the bill Caution Against Racially and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) that will make false racially-charged 911 reports illegal.

A fire inside a ballot drop box in Baldwin Park may have compromised dozens of votes.

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Two recent college grads have hatched a rescue plan for Election Day designed to cut wait times at the polls and encourage more people to vote.

MOVIE NIGHT! You can now host a private screening for you and up to 19 people at AMC theaters for $99.

Federal authorities revealed details of drug raids in the Inland Empire that resulted in the largest domestic seizure of methamphetamine in the history of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.