Councilman Finn was a wise gentleman and a tremendous asset to the City of Los Angeles.
A 72-year-old North Hollywood dance teacher was found stabbed to death in his garage Tuesday morning, Los Angeles police said.
The Supreme Court today voided the acquittal, in what it called "the nontrial of the century," of 26 people charged in the 1983 assassination of President Corazon Aquino's husband and ordered a new trial.
Federal investigators concluded today that the pilot of a commuter plane that crashed in Maine, killing schoolgirl Samantha Smith, should not have tried to land after encountering problems during an erratic, rain-hampered approach that was not properly aligned with the airport's instrument landing beacon.
An unemployed engineer was in custody Friday on suspicion of strangling his 53-year-old wife during the course of "mutual combat" at their home Thursday, police said.
The live-in housekeeper of slain producer Herbert Wallerstein was acquitted Wednesday of manslaughter charges in his death.
Hawthorne police are seeking information about a hit-and-run accident that caused the death of a
Convicted Nazi war criminal Andrija Artukovic has filed an appeal of the death sentence against him
In death, Len Bias and Don Rogers continue to be what they were in life. Role models.
Rodney James Alcala, who got a reprieve from San Quentin's Death Row a year ago, was given a death
Drugs apparently played a role in the death of a man prior to a concert by heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, Long Beach police said Monday.
Police announced the first arrest in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
A door-to-door preacher who died of massive cyanide poisoning with an almost-empty container of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules under his bed committed suicide, a medical examiner ruled Friday.
An elderly couple was found beaten and stabbed to death Thursday night in their spacious two-story
An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced to death by hanging an Egyptian-born Israeli for attempting to smuggle heroin into Egypt.
Ram officials confirmed Monday that Coach John Robinson also was a target of a series of threatening telephone calls during Sunday evening's game between the Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
A Santa Ana man was fatally stabbed Friday night after a fight broke out in the alley behind his apartment complex in the 2000 block of West Myrtle Street, police said.
Eight Ugandans have been arrested following a charge by President Yoweri Museveni that exiled former government ministers were plotting to assassinate current leaders, relatives said Sunday.
The president of the University of Alabama said Monday he has received some death threats over the choice of a new football coach.
Four young white men have been identified as being in a car that ran down a black domestic worker in Pretoria, but they have not been arrested or charged, two newspapers reported Sunday.