Christopher Weber, Associated Press

Leslie Van Houten served 53 years of a life sentence for helping Manson’s followers carry out the 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.

Forty-two people, including some children, were dropped off at Union Station around 4 p.m. Wednesday and were being cared for at a church.

At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state. The figure is likely to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

The GPS-collared cat was in stable condition after being hit with a tranquilizer dart in the trendy Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz near Griffith Park.

A gas station, church, hotel, museum and bar were among fixtures gutted in the town dating to California’s Gold Rush era that had some wooden buildings more than 100 years old.

The University of California system also said Thursday that students, faculty and staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to return to campuses.

Mortuary owners are calling one another to see whether anyone can handle overflow, and the answer is always the same: They’re full, too.

Out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

The blaze was one of more than two dozen major wildfires burning across California, including five of the largest in state history.

The district tweeted that all its elementary, middle and high schools were open using substitute teachers.

Forecasters had warned of continuing fire danger in Southern California due to persistent Santa Ana winds, the withering, dry gusts that sweep out of the interior toward the coast, pushing back moist ocean breezes.

A man who was deported from the United States six times was expected in court Wednesday to face charges after police say he killed three people and injured four in attacks targeting sleeping homeless men in California.

Four California high schools will be forced to change mascots after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation barring public schools from using the Redskins name for sports teams.

Popular beaches along nearly 7 miles of Los Angeles-area coastline were off-limits to surfing and swimming Thursday as scientists looked for the source of globs of tar that washed ashore.