investigating the University of Maryland athlete's cocaine-induced death, it was reported Friday.
An autopsy showed that a Northridge man who died in custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department succumbed to blood poisoning caused by a severe throat infection, authorities said.
I wish to express to The Times my sorrow at the death of Joseph Kraft.
The wife of a convicted drug smuggler was found guilty a second time Thursday of conspiring with her husband and his brother to assassinate a federal judge.
In the savage, simple-minded martial arts movie "Pray for Death" (citywide) its hero (Sho Kosugi) should sue his realtor.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury today recommended the death sentence for a gang member described
A Lomita man apparently froze to death in sub-zero temperatures after becoming disoriented in the Mt.
death of a 93-year-old woman who was accidentally fed through her windpipe at the county's Edgemoor Geriatric Hospital in Santee.
Fifty-four death-penalty judgments have been reviewed with finality by the California Supreme Court since 1978.
The widowed mother of seven children filed a wrongful death suit Tuesday against the Los Angeles
Thomas Edwards fired the lawyers who wanted to try to save him from the death penalty.
Sadly, we will never know to what extent Orson Welles' genius might have taken him and how much more of a legacy he would have left the world.
The widow of Leon Klinghoffer, the crippled New Yorker slain during the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, today filed a $1.5-billion suit against the Palestine Liberation Organization and another suit against the ship's owners and a travel agency.
Phoenix police have arrested a 24-year-old transient in connection with the stabbing slaying of a man whose body was found along a road in Agoura earlier this month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced Wednesday.
A federal judge ruled "extremely reluctantly" today that the death penalty could not be imposed in the case against Jerry A.
Bridge superstar Barry Crane won his last championship Saturday--the day after he was bludgeoned to death at his home in Studio City.
Spain's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jose Luis Blanco-Briones, was found bludgeoned to death and left
The death toll in time-bomb explosions at two seaside cafes July 11 has risen to nine, security officials reported Wednesday.
A 6-year-old Van Nuys girl was crushed to death Sunday morning when she was pinned between a car
Dr. Ralph J. W.