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Moreno Valley police were looking Monday for a 19-year-old man suspected of taking part in what authorities said was the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.

A California teenager kidnapped his 5-month-old baby and fatally stabbed the child before he was shot and killed by deputies, police said.

We’ve been covering the progress of the proposal to ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals.

Police in Pasadena, California, issued an Amber Alert for missing 3-year-old Dylan Kurihara. He was last seen with his father on Saturday, but his father "does not recall being with the child due to his level of intoxication," police said.

The Supreme Court, wading into a thicket of free-speech and children's rights issues, agreed Monday to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors....

The intense search for Chelsea King ended Tuesday when authorities unearthed a body in a shallow grave near the lakeside park where the teenager had gone running last week.

Authorities say a baby and a toddler have found bound, gagged and left on a bedroom floor in Southern California, and the childrens' father is being investigated for attempted murder and torture in the case.

The executive director of Napa State Hospital, a Northern California mental institution whose patients include convicted child molesters, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexually molesting a foster child in his care for more than a decade.

The father of Phillip Garrido, suspected of kidnapping an 11-year-old South Lake Tahoe girl 18 years ago, said today his son had a long history of drug use and mental problems.

Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family's home, tied up his ...