On Wednesday, Juliette, a white pony wearing a fake horn, decided she had had enough of her dead-end job (posing with children at a ranch in Madera Ranchos, California) and made a break for it, twice.

Another reason why messing with suburban moms is always a bad idea: Kelli Peters, a former PTA president and Orange County resident, won $5.7 million in a civil suit in damages over an incident in which a pair of two other parents, whose son attended her child’s school, planted weed and narcotics in her car.

Two Los Angeles Police Department officers have been charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting four women while they were on duty. Prosecutors said all the women were arrested by the two officers for drug-related crimes. The case has been under investigation since 2013, with the officers on paid leave for at least…

Lana del Rey portraying a California cult leader in her latest music video—administering acid as communion, literally drinking the kool-aid—isn’t really outside her purview, as this is a persona she’s been lightweight constructing from the beginning.

In California, a hotbed for wild-eyed anti-vaccination propaganda, the tide is shifting and childhood vaccinations are, thankfully, on the rise.

The New York Times published an article about precipitation in California today with the headline “Thanks to El Niño, Thirsty California Is Suddenly All Wet.” Now that’s what you call a state of arousal! Bye!

This past July, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law officially classifying professional cheerleaders as employees, entitled to minimum wage, sick leave, overtime and workers’ compensation. But why bother? After all, they work right next to some very rich men, and that’s the whole point, isn’t it?

With the new year came new laws, and now two states will allow women access to hormonal birth control without needing a doctor’s prescription. As of January 1, Oregon women who are at least 18 are allowed to purchase birth control from a pharmacy. California is scheduled to follow suit in a couple of months.

In October 2015, California passed one of the most progressive equal pay laws in America. The California Fair Pay Act mandates equal pay for “substantially similar work,” as well as giving all workers the right compare salaries without retribution from employers. According to Patricia Arquette, the law will have a…

Today, in the very worst of cautionary tales: a 33-year-old man fell to his death from a San Diego cliff while preoccupied by an electronic device.

A Pomona woman died on Christmas day after a man poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. Police reports suggest the horrific incident began with an argument between the two people, with the man possibly starting the fire with a lit cigarette. The 41-year-old victim, who was not named, died of her injuries.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday afternoon that they’ve reached an agreement to extradite Jinx star and unsettling man Robert Durst back from New Orleans to stand trial for murder. Durst was charged in March with the 2000 murder of his friend and confidante Susan Berman.

When I told the woman at the hotel check-in desk what I’d come for, I almost whispered it out of shame.

A 15-year-old YouTube skateboard star has been arrested and charged with committing lewd acts on a child under 14, along with his 22-year-old manager and another skater, 27. Steven Fernandez, who’s nicknamed “Baby Scumbag,” is accused of luring a 12-year-old girl by promising to put her on a nonexistent MTV special if…

The UN climate change conference in Paris has officially brought in the big guns.

On Friday morning, reporters from what seemed like every major media company, including CNN, CBS News, and MSNBC, flooded into the apartment of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple responsible for Wednesday’s massacre in San Bernardino. Meanwhile, cable news broadcasters stood by agog asking the question…

The two shooters who carried out the attack in San Bernardino, married couple Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, fired up to 75 rounds and left behind three remote-controlled pipe bombs that failed to detonate, according to police. All four firearms used in the shooting were purchased legally and…

The two suspects killed in a shootout with police yesterday after a massacre in San Bernardino that killed 14 and wounded 17 were a married couple with a six-month-old daughter. Police initially reported that they were looking for “three white men” in tactical gear: the truth is turning out more bizarre. Here’s…

Police and fire departments are reportedly responding to a shooting in San Bernardino, California that has left at least 12 people dead and 20 people wounded, according to ABC 7. The situation is reportedly unfolding at the Inland Regional Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities.

Two new laws in California and Oregon will allow women to forgo with a visit to the gynecologist in order to obtain a prescription for birth control. The New York Times reports that in the next few months, women will be able to get a prescription for contraception directly from a pharmacist.