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A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, threatening 12,000 homes in the Los Angeles area. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued emergency declarations for four counties.

Three middle school students in southern Maryland have been charged with hate crimes for allegedly harassing a Jewish classmate. Experts say young kids are increasingly exposed to hate ideologies.

Lawyers for Alan Beaman will be allowed to share evidence with jurors at his upcoming civil trial against three retired Normal police officers that the officers violated accepted police standards in their 1993 homicide investigation that led to Beaman’s conviction on murder charges, a Peoria County judge ruled on Friday.

The sentencing phase has begun for the six former officers who pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men. Two ex-officers were sentenced Tuesday and the four others will be sentenced this week.

Since the Ferguson, Mo., shooting, there have been renewed calls for police departments to hire more blacks and other minorities. But recruiters say there's a shortage of candidates.

In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied.

Police on Monday named Wess Roley, 20, as the suspect in the attack. He was found dead late on Sunday, according to law enforcement.

Business owner and father Ismael Ayuzo Sandoval is preparing for his deportation to Mexico — a country he left decades ago and where his attorney said he is afraid to return because of cartel violence, citing, in part, his cousin’s murder at the hands of drug traffickers.

The big winter storm across much of the U.S. is especially challenging in West Coast cities not accustomed to snow and such low temperatures. It's particularly hard for people without housing.

Two young people have been arrested in an alleged plot to attack a Texas synagogue that involved driving through the congregation to "kill as many Jews as possible," according authorities.