Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor reckless driving in connection with his arrest in Moreno Valley last summer on suspicion of driving under the influence.
In the latest case of government belt-tightening, a Southern California county is charging prisoners for the daily cost of their stay.
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was charged Wednesday with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence, authorities said.
A conservative county supervisor in Southern California wants to form the 51st state by seceding the region from California, saying the state's problems require "radical" solutions.
Fed up with the rest of the state, some citizens are pushing a radical plan for 13 counties to secede from California.
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police ultimately led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on Tuesday, police said.
In a March interview, Rodney King talks about the night of his infamous beating.
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CNN iReporters document the devastating rainstorms that spawned flash floods and mudslides across southern California.
Federal officials are investigating whether this week's Pacific storms caused a pilot to crash his small plane into a mountain in a southern California state park, authorities said Friday. It is the second death that might be related to the storms.
The Bachelorette contestant's family is "distraught and heartbroken" amid Internet rumors
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake rattled southern California Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor, centered about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, was first reported by USGS to be at 5.7 magnitude but the agency later downgraded it to 5.4.
Two men have been arrested in California in connection with a string of brazen attacks in the past six months thought to be targeting law enforcement.
Authorities in California's Riverside County are investigating an early Monday morning fire at a building containing evidence collected by local police. Officials are calling the fire in the city of Hemet "suspicious" and investigating it as arson, according to a statement from the Hemet police department.
A Southern California bank robber dubbed the "geezer bandit" has struck again, possibly knocking off his 11th bank, the FBI said.
Firefighters hope to quell a raging wildfire on Friday that has already scorched 800 acres in southern California.
Police in California say that with the arrests of 23 people this week, they are getting closer to those responsible for a string of brazen attacks against officers in a gang task force.
A string of "brazen attempts" to kill members of a gang task force in Riverside, California, has led to a $200,000 reward for information.
Firefighters continued to battle a fire in southwest California that ripped through the hills and rugged canyons of Ventura County, threatened hundreds of homes and prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency.
A rapidly moving fire in southwest California injured two firefighters Tuesday as it ripped through the hills and rugged canyons of Ventura County, a fire official told CNN.
A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing on a California highway Sunday morning, though no major injuries were reported, authorities said.
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One AIG manager is not only giving away his bonus, he's also giving his notice. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
The two-story homes on Fir Circle in an upscale Lake Elsinore, California, neighborhood tell two stunningly different tales.
Conservationists claimed one of their most significant victories of the new administration Monday as President Obama signed sweeping land reform legislation designating 2 million additional acres of public wilderness areas.
A temporary worker at a New York Wal-Mart died after being trampled by a crowd of shoppers.
Three violent deaths in two stores marred the opening of the Christmas shopping season Friday.
The comedian faces four misdemeanors following his arrest last month
The comedian is released on $5,000 bail after allegedly lifting a teen girl's top outside a bar
A massive tornado tore into the northern Colorado town of Windsor and nearby towns Thursday, killing one person and damaging many homes and businesses, the town's mayor said.
Affiliate KUSA shot video of a giant tornado and hail in Weld County, Colorado.
Home sales surged 22 percent in April in Southern California as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures
High winds make it difficult for crews to contain a two-thousand acre wildfire near the Grand Canyon.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports on whether masks really help clean the air Southern Californians are breathing.
A raging wildfire near Palm Springs that has killed four firefighters and burned about 10,000 acres was deliberately set, said John Hawkins, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention's Riverside County Fire Department.
A mandatory evacuation order was issued Thursday for hundreds of households in Morongo Valley as nearby wildfires burned on, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
Three adults and three children were found dead early Tuesday at the home of an investigator for the district attorney's office in Riverside County, sheriff's deputies said.
Florida has 14 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the United States, more than any other state, according to a study released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Rutherford County, Tennessee had the largest rate of job growth, at 9.2 percent, of any of the 317 largest counties in the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. Results are for the year through Sept. 30, 2004.
Slower winds, lower temperatures and higher humidity brightened Tuesday's outlook for firefighters battling a nearly 6,000-acre wildfire in Los Angeles County, where residents were being kept away from about 350 homes.
Sizzling heat and shifting winds hindered firefighters trying to contain a wildfire moving across the Santa Clarita foothills northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday, prompting authorities to order hundreds of residents to evacuate.
Good weather is helping firefighters make progress against six Southern California blazes that have scorched nearly 20,000 acres this week in what officials fear could portend a brutal fire season.
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