The family of a Westminster man who died when he attempted to prevent a careening Las Vegas-bound tour bus from plunging down an embankment has filed a $7.5-million lawsuit, the first in what attorneys said could be a series of lawsuits stemming from the March 29 crash.
Rafael Caro Quintero, a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of American narcotics agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, was detained in Costa Rica and efforts are proceeding for his extradition, the Mexican attorney general's office announced today.
I must object to the characterization of my testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 19, as reported in The Times.
A Studio City neurosurgeon who admitted supplying drugs that killed his addict wife surrendered in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday to begin serving a 180-day sentence at a halfway house, which will enable him to continue practicing medicine during the day.
A Superior Court jury today cleared 24-year-old Sagon Penn of first- and second-degree murder in the slaying of a policeman and of attempting to murder another officer in a case that raised allegations of racism and brutality.
Death Row inmates, some wielding sharpened broomsticks, rebelled at the Indiana State Prison in
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A Reseda woman was arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of killing a North Hollywood resident with a drug injection, police said.
Court ruled on Thursday, while in the same case it reversed the defendant's death sentence.
Jurors convicted a former military student of second-degree murder Tuesday for the brutal stabbing of a transient killed while the teen-ager and a friend were on a midnight patrol seeking Latino youths.
Two Royal Air Force veterans say they fear that bombs they jettisoned over the English Channel after an aborted World War II mission may have accidentally downed the aircraft carrying famous band leader Glenn Miller, it was reported Tuesday.
They fly daily in the world's most crowded skies, dodging other aircraft while keeping millions informed of the congestion on the troads far below them.
Former policeman Anthony (Jack) Sully, 41, was sentenced today to die in the gas chamber for killing six people in 1983.
An Orange County private school owner, in federal custody for allegedly hiring mercenaries to firebomb the cars of former teachers, was accused Thursday of plotting the possible murder or kidnaping of her own daughter to keep her from testifying at a future trial.
A 23-year-old Camarillo man has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving in a wrong-way freeway accident that left two people dead and two injured, the Ventura County district attorney's office reported Tuesday.
The wife and heirs of Challenger co-pilot Michael J.
A 19-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been indicted in the death of a woman killed last month when he
Relatives say Shirley Rizk would call her son a "faggot" in front of his friends, and a neurologist says her "sexually provocative" and abusive demeanor placed too much stress on the boy's "abnormal" brain.
A man convicted for murdering a businessman who refused to give him a job was executed in Florida's electric chair Tuesday.
A 24-year-old man who died last week may have taken an Anacin 3 capsule that contained cyanide, and Walgreen drug stores ordered the product pulled from its shelves nationwide, officials said.