Plus, the biggest stories of the day from across California.

Police on Sunday were investigating the beating death of a 48-year-old man found in an Anaheim cul-de-sac. Officers responded Saturday at 2:55 a.m. to the 1500 block of West Center Street after a passerby discovered the man on the ground with “injuries consistent with blunt force trauma,” Anaheim Police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said. The victim,…

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — A woman was killed and her driver suffered injuries when their white Toyota sedan crashed Sunday morning into the right side embankment of the Ortega (74) Highway just east of the San Juan Creek Bridge in San Juan Capistrano. The crash occurred just before 1 a.m., the California Highway Patrol reported….

Co-chairs of a task force on homelessness want a right-to-shelter requirement. But building large shelters and forcing people indoors may prove difficult.

Heavy winter rainfall damaged roads leading into Idyllwild, leaving the artsy mountain community largely cut off from surrounding areas.

The former Crystal Cathedral, a Southern California landmark that has long stood at the intersection of kitsch and postmodernism just three miles from Disneyland, has been officially rededicated by the most unlikely of saviors: the Catholic Church.

L.A. County got a record 21,631 homeless people into housing in the past year. But a breakdown of that number obtained by The Times shows a much more complicated picture of who gets housed and how.

College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake hits six miles from Ridgecrest

A man wearing a green wig and a clown mask took the California Highway Patrol on a pursuit from Orange County to the sand of Venice Beach, where he playfully helped bury a man and then laid down as officers approached for his arrest. Along the way, before hopping out of his car on Venice…