Let the nuptials commence: The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just formally lifted its stay on gay marriage, opening the door for thousands of same-sex couples in California to get hitched.

Catherine Kieu, the California woman who cut off her husband's penis and put it in a garbage disposal, was today sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. She can begin seeking parole in seven years.

"From 2008 to 2011, only 17% of court-ordered claims for back pay and labor law penalties were collected" by low-wage workers in California. Almost everyone got screwed by the boss.

The criminal justice system in the state of California is operating perfectly, excepting the small matter of the looming and inevitable infectious disease race war.

A 46-year-old man was arrested Friday for assaulting a college security guard, after the guard had to gall to interrupt the man, who was dressed as a woman, from snapping pictures inside a student-only area in a female dorm.

The latest California crime wave: widespread theft of Tide Detergent, which is being traded for crack. "Money laundering" joke goes here.

A persistent public masturbator brightened everyone's morning on Wednesday by first jerking off outside a hospital before being chased off and then performing his act for people gathered at a nearby bus stop.

Crooks broke into a KGO-TV news van outside an Oakland art gallery on Tuesday, but that's become common in California's city of constant crime. What's weird is that the burglars also broke into the private security vehicle assigned to protect the news van.

Anthony Nicolas Orban already killed himself in jail, but the justice system isn't done with the evil California cop who abducted a diner waitress at gunpoint and raped her behind a storage shed in a seedy Inland Empire town.

These outrageously adorable baby foxes were born on the grounds of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park. They like to hang out in the Zen Garden. And they're the stars of a Facebook page called "FB Foxes." Do you like them?

If there's one thing that the State of California wants in a drug and alcohol counselor, it's a spotless past free of crime. So the state was appalled to learn that felons may be counseling people about drugs. Do we want to live in a society that legalizes speaking from experience?

America's unwanted teen boys are generally exiled to "skate parks," and it was at Huntington Beach's Murdy Park where four kids beat the hell out of an innocent adult Friday night ... or bravely fought off a madman trying to stab them all with a screwdriver.

Homes in a Lake County subdivision are being abandoned as they slowly sink into the ground.

Etta Mae Lopez was ready. She was ready to finally quit smoking. But she knew it wouldn't be easy. No, it was going to be a Herculean effort. Ms. Lopez considered her options — perhaps a few months in rehab? Brilliant. No one would ever smoke in rehab. But her smokers' insurance probably wasn't going to cover that. So she picked the next best place to be when you want to stop smoking for free: jail. Because nothing stops those cravings like the thought of having to shank someone for a $30 "loosie."

Oakland is a world-class city with world-class terrible crime and a forever scandalized police force that often does more harm than good. Meet new OPD Chief Anthony Toribio and then say good-bye, because he's out after two days on the job.

Fifteen farm workers in California who had no choice but to flee indoors to escape the smoke and ash descending upon them from the massive wildfire burning nearby were summarily terminated the following day.

A California mother of four made a very fortunate mistake last month when she accidentally purchased a winning lottery ticket at her local CVS.

This massive plume of gray-white smoke from the wildfires raging through Southern California's transverse mountain ranges is being pushed over the Pacific Ocean by the notorious Santa Ana winds. A weather satellite operated by NOAA captured this image late Thursday—you can see five of the narrow Channel Islands between Santa Barbara and San Diego County beneath the thick smoke.

A man attacked by a rabid bat in the Mojave National Preserve will probably die if not found and treated by health officials. Eyewitnesses say the bat landed on the mystery man's neck outside the desert park's book store at the Kelso Depot between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The man wandered off, oblivious, and the bat fell dead from rabies.

Million-dollar homes in Camarillo, Calif. were reduced to nothing yesterday as a wind-stoked fire in Ventura County spread over 8,000 acres, threatening 2,000 homes and causing hundreds of evacuations.