An Edgerton Avenue woman found four strangers inside her house while her children slept nearby. Nothing appears to have been taken.

The blaze grew from a half-acre report to several acres near Harvard Road, prompting evacuation orders for DeBell and Stough Canyon.

A man died at the scene after an officer opened fire on the 11800 block of Downey Avenue Saturday morning. Whether he was armed remains unclear.

A gunman hit two High Desert gas stations minutes apart while a third suspect fled a Victorville Maverik without paying. All three cases remain open.

Kristofas Butsky, 39, faces a felony charge after allegedly leaving a voicemail threatening to kill an LA judge. It's the second such case this year.

Vikram Mubayi's last GPS ping came from Agassiz Col before his family lost contact. Investigators still have not released a cause of death.

Police say the man and the victim knew each other in the pre-dawn shooting near Santa Fe Avenue.

A clinical therapist from the county's crisis team was riding with deputies when the confrontation on Villa Hermosa turned into gunfire.

A predawn car-to-car shooting on Central Avenue ended with a fatal crash and gunfire on Poly High's summer-empty campus.

A 100-acre brush fire near Gorman Post Road forced a second-alarm response Friday, just two days after the Buzzard Fire scorched 180 acres nearby.

The Thursday night crash near Johnson Street struck on a stretch of road the county is only now retrofitting with sidewalks and bike lanes.

Deputies haven't confirmed the burglary and the takeover are linked, and no arrests have been made yet.

Dowland Ernest Christian Lee was booked at Morongo Basin Jail after a June cyber tip led detectives to his Cholla Avenue home.