A 15-year-old Southern California girl died from her injuries two days after she jumped onto the speeding car of a robber who snatched her iPhone.

A woman who says she was abducted a decade ago by a man who forced her to marry him and fathered her child has said she is now happy and feels blessed to be back with her family.

A US woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her home 10 years ago has been reunited with her family.

A schoolteacher was arrested after at least 300 living and dead pythons were found in plastic bins inside his stench-filled suburban home in California, police said.