According to the Santa Ana Police Department, the woman entered the restaurant through an employee back door entrance and asked for some ketchup.

The car struck a raised median, the impact of the collision sending it soaring into the air before it crashed into the second floor of a dental office.

Eleven days after laying to rest a man he thought was his son, a California man was outraged to learn that the coroner's office made a mistake when they declared his son dead.

A woman who taught English classes at a Southern California jail was arrested Thursday on suspicion of helping three inmates — including an alleged killer — escape the lockup, and the men are believed to be riding around in a stolen van.

The investigation of a daring California jail break has led to the arrests of five people, with more expected, but the three inmates who escaped remain at large, the Orange County sheriff said Wednesday.

Three California inmates who sawed through a metal grate, crawled through plumbing tunnels and shimmied to freedom down a rope made from bed linens likely had help to pull off the daring plan and also benefited from the complacency of jail staff, security experts said Monday.