The Rangers veered off their recent history of preferring college players to dip into deep class of high school shortstops.

The teams come from the Los Angeles County, Riverside City, and Orange County Fire Departments, as well as Menlo Park in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Texas Rangers selected high school shortstop Gavin Fien with the 12th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, marking the team's first first-round selection of a high school player since 2018.

Federal agents were met by dozens of protesters Thursday when they descended Glass House Farms in rural Camarillo, Calif., to conduct an immigration enforcement operation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday the deployment of 18 more urban search-and-rescue team members to Texas to help with recovery from the devastating Independence Day flooding. The members are in addition to the nine members deployed Monday from the cities of Riverside and Oakland,

Deadly floods like those in Texas are rare in California, but climate change-fueled storms could make them more likely, climate scientists say.

The notable increase in ICE arrests throughout the country now has the numbers to prove it, according recent reports.

Fire Capt. Celina Serrano and K-9 Prentiss, Firefighter Paramedic Jonathan Munguia and K-9 Clifford, along with Search Team Manager Fire Capt. Michael Devine, are expected to be deployed for 14 days, according to the LACFD.

While extreme rainfall events are less common in the Golden State than in the South, scientists warn that flash flooding is becoming increasingly likely as climate change reshapes our weather patterns.