Reuters reports that two small aircraft collided mid-air about 15 miles southeast of downtown San Diego on Sunday, killing at least four people and starting a two-acre brush fire.

Three California Highway Patrol officers, a defense attorney, and five others have been arrested in connection to the 2012 murder of a California man who, the New York Post reports, officials said was suspected of having been stealing the attorney’s antiques.

Authorities say they are searching for a man who attempted to rob three banks over the course of an hour in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz on Thursday, KNBC reports.

Authorities say infamous “San Quentin Six” conspirator Hugo Pinell* was killed and 11 other inmates were hospitalized with stab wounds on Wednesday after a riot involving about 70 inmates at California State Prison, Sacramento, KHTK reports.

On Thursday, a California police officer was placed on paid administrative leave in response to a viral video that shows him drawing his gun, apparently in response to a man filming him with his hand in his pocket.

On Friday, police in Long Beach, California killed a knife-wielding man believed to have stabbed his wife and five other people, including three inside a convalescent home, the Associated Press reports.

A shirtless, mud-covered man claiming to be Tarzan was arrested on Tuesday after police say he broke into a California zoo and began jumping from trees into animal exhibits, the L.A. Times reports.

A San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy was convicted of assault on Tuesday in connection with a 2014 incident where the officer choked and beat a cane-using homeless man, Reuters reports.

A wildfire has burned through nearly 46,000 acres and closed two highways north in Lake County, north of San Francisco, The Guardian reports. A firefighter was killed in a second fire, near the border with Oregon.

Eight children were hurt, at least three of them critically, when a tree fell on a group of kids outside a summer day camp in Pasadena, the Associated Press reports.

According to his partner of 17 years, a California man recently found decomposing in an SUV near his home containing over 1,200 guns claimed to be an undercover operative, the L.A. Times reports.

In the foreground, a landscape of embers, left this morning by the “North Fire,” which prompted people to abandon their cars on the 15 freeway near Victorville, California, smolders. Two people were injured. In the distance, a new fire, dubbed the Pine Fire, takes hold. Funny how that happens!

Despite efforts by the city of Gardena, California to suppress the footage, a video showing officers killing an unarmed, seemingly confused man was made public on Tuesday, the L.A. Times reports.

On Sunday, Reddit user SeagoatCM uploaded a video simply titled “The legend” showing a man performing an animated recorder breakdown to Z.Z. Top’s “La Grange” while simultaneously navigating L.A. traffic.

Back in March, a 29-year-old Vallejo, Calif., woman disappeared from her home, and her boyfriend was left tied up and drugged with a note demanding a ransom for her return. Suspicion initially fell on the boyfriend, but when the victim returned two days later and refused to cooperate with investigators, authorities thought she may have staged the whole thing, a la Gone Girl. Which brings us up to this week, when a real suspect has been charged with the “hoax” kidnapping.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of Christian Siqueiros, who died in police custody on Thursday, NBC Los Angeles reports. Siqueiros was arrested after the Montclair Police Department received a disturbance report from someone in his former apartment building.

Jim, my man, c’mon.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law one of the strictest vaccination requirements in the country in an attempt to ensure widespread outbreaks—like the recent Disneyland measles debacle—don’t occur again.

According to The Washington Post, a former convent in Los Feliz, California has become the subject of a heated legal battle after two elderly nuns sold the property in an attempt to stop singer Katy Perry from buying it.

On Tuesday, a California man was arrested on hate crimes charges after allegedly yelling homophobic slurs and attacking three men with a knife for wearing skinny jeans, the L.A. Times reports.