On July 15, 1976, three gunmen kidnapped 26 children and their driver off a Chowchilla, Calif., school bus.

Hot weather persisted over the weekend with the National Weather Service issuing a heat advisory through 8 p.m. Monday for the valleys in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. With temperatures expected to reach 97 to 105 degrees, cities included in the advisory were Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga and Corona. Related…

A man who La Habra police said asked a teenage girl for directions, then propositioned her for sex as she was skateboarding on Imperial Highway more than two weeks ago was arrested Friday night. Sgt. Jose Rocha, a La Habra detective, said police were following up on the incident at around 11:30 p.m. when they…

A body was found Sunday, prompting an investigation near train tracks in southeastern Los Angeles County near Pico Rivera that forced cancellation or delays for Metrolink trains and Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner. Authorities about 9 a.m. were sent to investigate reports of an unconscious person in the Rio Hondo River Basin between Slauson Avenue and Washington…

A 19-year-old man from Pensacola, Fla. was hit and killed by a driver in Tustin Saturday night. Officers responded to a call shortly before 9:30 p.m. at Jamboree Road and West Drive, by the Tustin Marketplace. They found a man later identified as Trace Goodwin lying in the road with major injuries, Tustin Police Lt….

Long-threatened Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids were set to begin Sunday amid anxiety in immigrant communities across the country and questions about how extensive the much-hyped action would actually be. The raids were expected to take place in at least 10 cities, including in California….

In alleys, along busy highways, on billboards and outside businesses, murals and street art memorializing the slain rapper color the city.

For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been under pressure to break up tattooed gangs of deputies accused of misconduct. But senior department officials, county leaders and prosecutors have failed to root out a subculture of inked clubs that pervades the nation’s largest sheriff’s…

Crews searched Saturday for a Huntington Beach woman and her dog who went missing one day earlier near an Inyo National Forest campground, authorities said. Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, was last seen Friday afternoon near the Grandview Campground, a half-hour drive north of the community of Big Pine in the Sierra Nevada mountains,…

Three people were hospitalized and three lanes of the southbound 55 Freeway were blocked for about an hour in Costa Mesa as a result of a crash possibly involving three vehicles, authorities said. The Costa Mesa Fire Department said about 2:50 p.m. that it was conducting a heavy rescue on the southbound 55 Freeway at…