An armed man sprayed three San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputies with “bear spray” and stabbed a deputy K-9 in the head Tuesday morning in Jamul.

A survivor of the Las Vegas Massacre came face-to-face with a gunman in his own driveway.

A Dallas-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.

San Bernardino Police smashed the window of an SUV early Tuesday morning to rescue a chihuahua that was left unattended in a parked car outside the San Bernardino Court House.

A woman in a car captured video of a man who was leaning out a car window and firing at pursuing officers and deputies in Los Angeles. Credit: Valerie Lopez

The Vallejo Police Department once again is being accused of using excessive force, this time involving a car full of young women, and part of the exchange was caught on cellphone video.

Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito inherited Imperial regalia and seals as proof of his succession and pledged in his first public address Wednesday to follow his father’s example in devoting himself to peace and staying close to the people. Naruhito succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne at midnight after Akihito abdicated. In his address to the people, Naruhito formally announced his succession...

A member of a group that urges immigrants to know their rights used some of that training to keep immigration officers from arresting two people who were in the car with him. Bryan MacCormack, 30, executive director of the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement in upstate New York, was captured on video refusing to open his car door March 5 to...

A veteran found guilty of violently abusing his neighbors’ huskies was sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars Friday.y.

A woman charged with stealing a car and kidnapping two young children who were inside was sentenced to more than a decade in state prison Monday.

Shawn Cotton no longer drives his $55,000, bright pink Corvette to work because he’s afraid it could get him killed like his friend. But there are two things he won’t leave home without: his bulletproof vest and the 9 mm pistol he slips into his pocket. Cotton, 28, quit his $7-an-hour job cleaning refrigerators at a big-box store six years...

A Maryland woman whose death last year was blamed on an attack by a panhandler was actually killed by her husband and his adult daughter, police said Sunday.

A woman who gave money out of her car window to what looked like a needy young mother was then stabbed to death by a man who tried to steal her wallet, Baltimore police say.

Court documents released Monday detail the brutal killing of insurance executive Melissa Millan along a jogging path in Simsbury in 2014.

A new form of advertising is being tested in San Francisco and it looks like it’s from the future.

UPDATE: Coach at basketball powerhouse university arrested in deadly punch A Florida man in New York City for a wedding has died, two days after he was attacked by a driver who got out and punched him over a mistaken Uber ride, authorities say. Sandor Szabo, 35, died Tuesday, his employer said. Cops said the Boca Raton resident knocked on…

California fire authorities said Sunday they have turned a corner in battling several of the wildfires that have devastated wine country and other rural parts of Northern California over the past week.

Stephon Clark’s brother, Stevante Clark, marched into a Sacramento city council meeting on Tuesday, chanted his brother’s name and jumped on the dais in front of Mayor Darrell Steinberg. Later, protesters again blocked fans from entering the Golden1 Center for an NBA game downtown between the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks. The crowds had gathered for the second time since...

A minivan hauling gas canisters plowed into pedestrians near a prominent park and burst into flames in downtown Shanghai on Friday, injuring 18 people in the heart of the Chinese financial hub, local authorities reported. Police appeared to dismiss fears that the crash was a deliberate attack, describing it as an accident caused when a driver who was smoking lost...