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A disgraced former head of an elite Northern California drug task force has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing drugs from evidence lockers and trying to sell the drugs.

Authorities say they've put a Central California high school on lockdown and cancelled classes after three chemical explosions on the school's campus.

Federal authorities say a California man wanted in an Alabama murder case has been arrested near the southern Arizona border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles.

Police in Richmond say a 5-year-old girl has died when the SUV she was riding in overturned.