Flooding across all lanes was reported about 1:30 a.m. The southbound lanes were expected to remain closed until at least 9 a.m., the California Highway Patrol said.

Walmart could pay up to $7.5 million in penalties following a 2021 lawsuit alleging the retailer dumped over 80 tons of hazardous waste in California landfills.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and his New York Yankees counterpart Aaron Boone began battling on a baseball diamond 32 years ago at age 19 when UCLA faced USC.

Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do agrees to step down from his post and plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, federal authorities say.

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is requiring four more types of consumer lending firms to register and turn over data to do business in California.

Twenty-five more patients are suing a longtime OB-GYN, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and other facilities where he worked over allegations of sexual abuse.

A disbarred Manhattan Beach attorney lied about having terminal cancer, stole $117,000 in client funds to support a gambling habit, officials said.

A lawsuit says a boy was expelled over emails to another boy; one said, “You dead yet” with squirt guns. The pair went to a school fair together the next day.

Lombardo Palacios was 15 when he confessed to murder following hours of police interrogation that employed pressure tactics many experts now say are unreliable. Seventeen years later, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón will ask a court to set Palacios and his co-defendant free.

Perez is running for reelection for another four-year term. She represents County District 5, which includes portions of downtown and eastern Bakersfield.