Author: Kristin Lam, USA TODAY

Millions of fire-weary Californians were bracing for preemptive power outages and a rewind of furious winds that have driven dangerous wildfires.

Sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife Cynthia Thompson Perkins, a teacher, were arrested on child pornography and rape charges in Louisiana.

California firefighters are wrestling with the Palisades Fire burning in a Los Angeles hillside and threatening multimillion-dollar homes.

A 2-year-old girl died in a shooting at a North Philadelphia home on Sunday, a day after an 11-month-old baby was shot inside a car, police said.

The state of Washington fined three companies involved in a crane collapse that killed four people in Seattle, determining it was “totally avoidable.”

A California fault that could produce a 8.0-magnitude earthquake began sliding following a series of July temblors, according to a new study.

The death of a 1-year-old Florida girl Monday marked the 50th case of a child dying in a hot car this year, according to KidsandCars.org.

A California jury on Wednesday found former police officer Noah White Winchester guilty of sexually assaulting five women while on duty.

Washington state police are negotiating with a suspected gunman who allegedly shot three people in a Vancouver apartment building on Thursday.