Reggina Jefferies was a praise dancer at the funeral ceremony honoring the memory of friends Josiah Pratt and Jamari Wilson, two 15-year-olds who drowned in nearby Modesto, when she was shot and killed.

Jeff Rosen, the Santa Clarita D.A., filed a motion asking that Judge Aaron Persky be unseated from a sexual assault case involving a male nurse who allegedly assaulted a female patient under anesthesia.

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Students held signs that read "Rape is Rape" and "Stanford Protects Rapists" to denounce Brock Turner's lenient sentence.

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Local political leaders who were against the idea pulled up a 1971 interview Wayne did with Playboy, in which he made unsettling remarks about African-Americans and Native Americans.

A haircut turned into an attempted murder when a woman tried to shoot a barber who gave her an alleged botched hairstyle.

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"It has never been the FBI's desire to engage these armed occupiers in any way other than through dialogue, and to that end, the FBI has negotiated with patience and restraint in an effort to resolve the situation peacefully."

The family of Autumn Johnson is mourning her death after the toddler was fatally shot just a week after her first birthday.

Jamie Foxx doesn't look at himself as a hero, but many others do after hearing about how the actor sprung into action to save a man from a burning car.

The only thing worse than not winning the lottery is thinking you did.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck recommended on Monday that criminal charges should be filed against an officer who shot a homeless man in the back and killed him last year, reports the Los Angeles Times.

A Bay Area state worker has been charged with a hate crime after she threw coffee on a Muslim man during a prayer service.

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On December 18, 1996, the school district in Oakland, Calif. designated Ebonics as a main language of its predominantly African-American student base. The move was…