California Victims

Undercover officers posing as sex buyers at last week's Comic-Con event in California rescued human trafficking victims, including a 16-year-old girl, and made multiple arrests, prosecutors said Wednesday.

An Indian-origin family from Kerala was found dead at their home in US' California in an apparent case of murder-suicide. The victims have been identified as Anand Sujith Henry, 42, his wife Alice Priyanka, 40, and their 4-year-old twin children.

Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself. According to a filing on Wednesday in federal court in San Jose, California, Apple and the plaintiffs have agreed on material settlement terms after working with a mediator.

The victims, aged 2 to 14, were under Zakrzewski's care when the abuses took place and all of the crimes happened between 2014 and 2019.

The killings came in a span of just 48 hours -- so close together that California Governor Gavin Newsom was at a hospital meeting with victims of the first attack when he was pulled away to be briefed about the second.

The tickets had QR codes that when scanned, would lead the victim to a website where they could pay their "fine."

A street has been renamed in San Francisco, California, the United States in honour of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai immigrant whose brutal murder in 2021 raised awareness of anti-Asian prejudice

Police in Los Angeles, US, are searching for a pair of robbers who hit a woman with their car as she ran away from them in search of help. The victim only sustained minor injuries.

Singer Chris Brown is being sued for rape in California, with his alleged victim claiming he drugged her and attacked her on a yacht at rap mogul Diddy's Florida home.

A mother who says her young son developed a rare form of cancer because of his exposure to Roundup sued the maker of the weed killer in California on Monday.

One of four people shot dead in a suburban Los Angeles real estate office was a 9-year-old boy struck by gunfire in the arms of his wounded mother as she tried in vain to shield him from the attack, officials said on Thursday.

The gunman in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of four Californians including a nine-year-old child personally knew and targeted his victims in a premeditated attack, police said Thursday.

Police in the Californian city of Orange reported a shooting on Wednesday with "multiple victims at the scene including fatalities," and local news media outlets said four people were killed before a suspect was arrested.

A top California university has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to hundreds of alleged sex abuse victims of campus gynecologist George Tyndall, a lawyer representing plaintiffs said Thursday.

Dozens of women and men who were terrorized by California's "Golden State Killer" during a sadistic decade-long crime spree finally got their day in court Tuesday as they spoke emotionally of their trauma.

Undercover officers posing as sex buyers at last week's Comic-Con event in California rescued human trafficking victims, including a 16-year-old girl, and made multiple arrests, prosecutors said Wednesday.

An Indian-origin family from Kerala was found dead at their home in US' California in an apparent case of murder-suicide. The victims have been identified as Anand Sujith Henry, 42, his wife Alice Priyanka, 40, and their 4-year-old twin children.

Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself. According to a filing on Wednesday in federal court in San Jose, California, Apple and the plaintiffs have agreed on material settlement terms after working with a mediator.

The victims, aged 2 to 14, were under Zakrzewski's care when the abuses took place and all of the crimes happened between 2014 and 2019.

The killings came in a span of just 48 hours -- so close together that California Governor Gavin Newsom was at a hospital meeting with victims of the first attack when he was pulled away to be briefed about the second.

The tickets had QR codes that when scanned, would lead the victim to a website where they could pay their "fine."

A street has been renamed in San Francisco, California, the United States in honour of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai immigrant whose brutal murder in 2021 raised awareness of anti-Asian prejudice

Police in Los Angeles, US, are searching for a pair of robbers who hit a woman with their car as she ran away from them in search of help. The victim only sustained minor injuries.

Singer Chris Brown is being sued for rape in California, with his alleged victim claiming he drugged her and attacked her on a yacht at rap mogul Diddy's Florida home.

A mother who says her young son developed a rare form of cancer because of his exposure to Roundup sued the maker of the weed killer in California on Monday.

One of four people shot dead in a suburban Los Angeles real estate office was a 9-year-old boy struck by gunfire in the arms of his wounded mother as she tried in vain to shield him from the attack, officials said on Thursday.

The gunman in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of four Californians including a nine-year-old child personally knew and targeted his victims in a premeditated attack, police said Thursday.

Police in the Californian city of Orange reported a shooting on Wednesday with "multiple victims at the scene including fatalities," and local news media outlets said four people were killed before a suspect was arrested.

A top California university has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to hundreds of alleged sex abuse victims of campus gynecologist George Tyndall, a lawyer representing plaintiffs said Thursday.

Dozens of women and men who were terrorized by California's "Golden State Killer" during a sadistic decade-long crime spree finally got their day in court Tuesday as they spoke emotionally of their trauma.