Residents near a privately owned New Mexico ghost town were ordered Saturday to evacuate as a blaze in the Gila National Forest continued to burn erratically, as Colorado crews took to fighting a new fire along the Utah-Colorado border.

A former high school football star whose rape conviction was thrown out plans to file a claim against the state but will not sue the woman who recanted the sexual assault claim she made a decade ago.

Police investigating the 2009 stabbing death of a 61-year-old Ventura woman have arrested the victim's niece.

After 33 years, someone has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz. And people immediately start speaking of "closure."

Going to college seemed inconceivable when Adriana Sanchez, the 12-year-old daughter of farm workers, was brought from Mexico to Central California and the family overstayed their visas.

Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico that has destroyed a dozen cabins and spread smoke across the state, prompting holiday weekend air-quality warnings.

Moments after sending the New Jersey Devils to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 2003, Adam Henrique skated to the corner and waited to be mobbed by his teammates.

A jockey has been injured at Los Alamitos Race Course in Orange County.

A habitat restoration project on Loma Ridge near Irvine has brought back to life a flower that hasn't been seen in Orange County since John F. Kennedy was president.

Glendora police say they've arrested a San Bernardino County probation officer on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and false imprisonment.

Police have recovered 114 stolen bicycles they say they found after searching the home and storage lockers of an 18-year-old San Francisco man.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says two men are under arrest following a deputy-involved shooting in Wilmington.

Orange County health officials are warning residents and laying traps for feral cats and other animals at two local schools after a Santa Ana resident contracted typhus.

In a story May 22 about internal files of nine Franciscan priests that were released as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit settlement in California, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the name of the attorney for the Roman Catholic order. His name is Brian Brosnahan.

A man has been arrested for allegedly pointing a laser at a Pasadena police helicopter, injuring an officer on board.