An 18-year-old honor student at Gardena High School was shot to death early Wednesday as he sat in his pickup truck at a traffic light in Inglewood.
A 46-year-old Reseda man was found shot to death in his apartment Friday, and police were seeking his wife for questioning.
A man arrested on drug charges died of a heart attack after Orange County Jail officials failed to notice his condition and delayed providing medical help, a lawsuit seeking $25 million in damages alleges.
A 39-year-old man believed to have only hours to live received a Jarvik-7 artificial heart and was listed in critical condition Wednesday, a Presbyterian-University Hospital spokeswoman said.
Kevin McGeough heard his last song as he saw his last light. The song was by a group called Slayer.
People who use crack, a smokable form of cocaine, risk dire results, including sudden death, and
The grand jury that investigated the death of Len Bias turns its attention this week to allegations
Let me preface this by stating that I never agreed with Howard Jarvis; I thought his schemes were, at best, half-baked, and that he, along with his befuddled teammate, Paul Gann, did a great disservice to the state.
It is about time that we honor a man who has worked hard for the people of California.
The head varsity basketball coach at a parochial school in Torrance was found shot to death early
A 27-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of her infant son, apparently for taking drugs during her pregnancy.
It tells you what moving lives we live that the death that stunned and saddened so many was of a
A Northridge resident was arrested on suspicion of murder Thursday night after the shooting of a Pacoima man, Los Angeles police said.
Cocaine-related deaths in Los Angeles County increased dramatically between 1982 and 1985, the county Drug Abuse Program office reported.
A Beverly Hills man was found not guilty today of trying to solicit former professional football star Ernie Holmes to murder wealthy Los Angeles businessman George Patarias Huck.
was extradited from the United States and sentenced to death for mass murder, the Yugoslav news agency said.
allowed to levy its own "severe sanctions" instead of becoming the first to face the so-called "death penalty."
A man who says his wife died as a result of a butane lighter exploding in her hands has filed an $11-million federal suit against the Bic Corp.
A Tijuana woman who tried to reclaim her impounded sedan was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter in connection with an accident last Thursday that fatally injured a 22-year-old motorcyclist, police said.
Assemblyman Joan Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara), we are also informed of the death of Dr.