A couple has been swept off rocks into the freezing Pacific Ocean in northern California before a dramatic rescue operation.

A woman swept off rocks at Panther Beach while fishing died after an ocean rescue. A man in his 30s was also pulled from the water.

LOS ANGELES – Beach rocks that caused a California woman's shorts to catch fire and severely burn her legs and hands appeared to be coated with phosphorus, but it was unclear how the flammable ...

SAN CLEMENTE (AP) — Officials at Camp Pendleton are investigating how phosphorous got on two rocks that ignited a fire in the pocket of a woman's shorts after she picked them up on San Onofre State ...

Denise Fennessey of the Orange County environmental health division says Thursday that field tests indicated that the substance coating two rocks was phosphorous but they'll be sent to a state lab for ...