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Police are still investigating but they say it appears a fireworks accident in California happened when a platform holding the fireworks tipped over, sending them shooting into the crowd, injuring 28 people.

Judy Shepard, posted her reactions upon hearing word of the Supreme Court's decision, Wednesday, striking down a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials are watching the winds at the scene of a wildfire that threatened homes and forced thousands to flee the mountains above Santa Barbara, Calif. Santa Barbara County fire Capt. David Sadecki says the blaze in Los Padres National Forest is only 10 percent contained. It'...

UPDATE Wednesday, February 13, 2013 BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — An official briefed on the investigation tells The Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say some of the 14 workers held hostage overnight during a robbery at a Los Angeles clothing store were assaulted, and one was stabbed. Police Lt. Andy Neiman says the stabbed worker was treated for a non-life threatening wound...

TAFT, Calif. (AP) — One student has been shot at a high school in Taft, Calif., a community in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Kern County sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt also says a suspect is in custody and is believed to be a student...

We’ve been doing the 50-state thing since Hawaii got the nod in 1959.  But if one California politician gets his way, we’re going to have to add another star to the flag. Jeff Stone, who sits on Riverside County Board of Supervisors, is proposing that his and 12 other counties in the southern half of California break away from the Golden State and form their own state called South California... Re