A magnitude-5.9 earthquake has struck in El Salvador, with no immediate reports of injuries or damages.

An attorney who worked for indicted Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III has pleaded guilty to evading a banking law and will cooperate with the federal...

Federal prosecutors played secretly recorded conversations Thursday that they said show former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona discussing whether tens of thousands...

A jury on Thursday recommended death for a man convicted of murdering a couple by binding them to the anchor of their yacht and throwing them into to ocean off the...

A millionaire businessman who helped federal prosecutors bring charges against a former Southern California sheriff testified Wednesday that the defendant proposed...

A millionaire businessman says he secretly recorded a former Southern California sheriff proposing to launder campaign donations.

The first witness in a federal corruption case against a former Orange County sheriff acknowledged Thursday that he knew it was illegal to give the popular lawman cash...

The first witness in a corruption case against a former Orange County sheriff said the lawman began taking cash in exchange for political favors even before he was...

Six years ago, Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona looked into national television cameras and told the abductor of a 5-year-old girl not to eat and not to sleep:...

More than a year ago, Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona nibbled on crab cakes at a ritzy, seaside restaurant and praised his dinner companion for unflinching loyalty...

A man was convicted Monday of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast.

A jury has convicted a man of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht in Southern California.

Attorneys have begun closing arguments in the trial of a Southern California man charged with murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and dumping them...

A former congressional candidate in Southern California has pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice in the probe of a letter his campaign sent to 14,000 registered...

Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli is gambling that an appeals court will accept a plea deal that would spare him prison time in one of the nation’s largest...

Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli is still pleading guilty in one of the nation’s largest stock options backdating cases _ but he intends to appeal a...

A defense attorney says a man on trial for murder killed a couple by throwing them off their yacht and killed another man too. But attorney Gary Pohlson told jurors...

The wife of an engineer who exported U.S. defense technology to China has been sentenced in California to prison for her role in the plot.

A former congressional candidate in California has been indicted after an investigation into a letter his campaign sent to Hispanic voters.