Oklahoma may soon be added to a list of states that give the option of chemical castration as punishment for sex offenders.
Police in Humboldt County, California were on the lookout for a reality TV contestant who was reported missing by her own mother.
Four alleged members of Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders in California, Florida and Virginia over the past year.
Police in west LA suburb of West Corvina called out to round up farm animals on the run. Donkey accused of being the ringleader.
Police in Stockton, California, are hunting for an 11-year-old boy after the attempted armed robbery of an ARCO petrol station on Monday (22 January).
Authorities have examined a letter claiming to be from a man who escaped from the notorious prison facility in 1963.
Tom Petty died from a combination of prescription medicines used to combat severe pain, coroner's report revealed.
Helen Grace James, from Pennsylvania, received an 'honourable discharge' after a 60-year battle with authorities.
David Turpin was listed as the principal of the Sandcastle Day School at his home, where children were found shackled to furniture
Pressure group describes America's largest state as "ungovernable". California is America's largest state by population and economy.
Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Blaze Bernstein, 19, was stabbed to death and buried in a shallow grave at a California park.
Police arrested David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin in California after they allegedly found 13 siblings aged from 2 to 29-years-old being held captive.
A car flipped in the air and landed into the second floor of a building in Orange County, California.
Emergency services in Santa Ana, California responded after a car hit a central divide at speed and flew into the air, becoming wedged in the second floor of a dental office.
A week after flash storms sent mud cascading through mountain slopes, progress is slowly being made with the massive clear-up operation.
Gonzalo Curiel, 20, and Tami Joy Huntsman, 42, face charges of murder and torturing three children then hiding their bodies in a storage unit.
Police in California released helicopter footage that appears to show a laser pointer being shone at the aircraft - which then tracked the suspect until he was arrested.
Four people have been left temporarily homeless after a man set his apartment ablaze trying to kill a spider with a blowtorch.
The death toll from the mudslides that swept through Santa Barbara county is expected to rise as rescue workers search for an unknown number people still unaccounted for.
The mud was unleashed in the dead of night by flash flooding in the steep, fire-scarred Santa Ynez Mountains.
Rosendo Xo Pec was charged with murder over the violent death of 76-year-old Betty Jane Willis. If found guilty he'll face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Friends told local news that a man who died after attending a frat house in Fresno was allegedly given fentanyl and left unconscious for hours before getting help.