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A person wearing a mask and armed with a shotgun-type weapon robbed a Wells Fargo bank branch in Santa Monica Tuesday, prompting a widespread search and a lockdown at a nearby elementary school.

Attempted murder, burglary and drug charges were filed Friday against a man who allegedly got inside an Orange County home, stripped off all his clothes and attacked a woman, then climbed onto the roof of a school building where he holed up for several hours before being taken into custody.

A man allegedly exposed himself to a 14-year-old boy in his bedroom Wednesday after walking into a family’s home in Rossmoor, just south of Los Alamitos.

Community members in suburban Denver marked the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting Saturday with a remembrance ceremony that celebrated the school’s survival and by volunteering at shelters, doing neighborhood cleanup projects and laying flowers and cards at a memorial to the 13 people killed. “We’re changed,” Dawn Anna, whose daughter Lauren Townsend was among the students killed...

An Orange County school was in shock after a 13-year-old boy was found dead on school campus Tuesday, prompting officials to close the middle school and a nearby elementary school.

A shooting at Highland High School in Palmdale Friday left a student wounded and a former student in custody, authorities said.

A Pennsylvania church is hosting a “blessing” ceremony Wednesday featuring AR-15 rifles, prompting school officials to relocate students from a nearby elementary school to another campus. World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland believes the AR-15 symbolizes the “rod of iron” in the biblical book of Revelation, and it is encouraging couples to bring “AR15 semiautomatic rifle or equivalents such...

Patrick Neville was outside, sneaking off to smoke with friends, and avoided the outburst of gunfire at Columbine High School nearly two decades ago, but he did not dodge the heartbreak. A close friend died, and the anguish in his father’s eyes is seared in Neville’s memory. Samantha Haviland was fundraising in the cafeteria and froze, uncomprehending, at the sound...

The gunman behind a rampage in Northern California was out on bail for a charge of stabbing a neighbor, had been the object of complaints from neighbors who said he had been firing off hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and had been the subject of a domestic violence call the day before the attack.

In partnership with social media network Nextdoor, Los Angeles Dodgers closer, Kenley Jansen, will meet with one lucky Los Angeles resident.

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy accused of killing his father and wounding three people during a school shooting has been charged as a juvenile with murder and three counts of attempted murder. The teen appeared in juvenile court on Friday wearing a yellow jail jumpsuit without any restraints. A judge ordered him to continue to be held. The teen is...

Jude Varieur had a homework assignment — address a community need.

Canoga Park Elementary School and early education center were placed on lockdown Tuesday morning as police investigated a suspicious package.