The name of Luigi Mangione has come up often over the past few days in social media users' discussions of the fires ravaging Southern California ... hailing him as a symbol of justified violence ...

In the past, Dungeness crab was available by mid-November, but that hasn't been the case in recent years. Commercial crabbing wasn't permitted south of the Sonoma-Mendocino County line until now.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department implemented a “temporary fix” Friday to get its computer dispatch system back online after it crashed on New Year’s Eve, authorities said.

A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless ...