Extremists in Punjab on Thursday shot to death a prominent Communist politician known for his outspoken opposition to the campaign for a separate Sikh state, police said.
County double murder, ruling that the prosecutor systematically removed blacks from the jury.
The captain of the Achille Lauro denied today that he covered up the hijackers' slaying of passenger Leon Klinghoffer and said he offered his own life to prevent the killing of more hostages.
The handsome prep school graduate accused of strangling his girlfriend in Central Park surrendered to police today to face additional charges of burglary in connection with a series of thefts in Park Avenue apartments.
The judge in the double-murder case of Debra Sue Robles on Monday postponed her resentencing and
Long Beach police on Thursday arrested a Lake View Terrace businessman on suspicion of soliciting the murder of a former business acquaintance.
A Philippine businesswoman said in a sworn statement that she saw a soldier shoot opposition leader Benigno S.
An apparently depressed man killed his wife and two children with a shotgun and then took his own life at the family's suburban home, police said Friday.
The trial of two underworld figures accused of killing a Chinese-American journalist in California last year ended today with the men weeping as they begged a court not to sentence them to death.
Police arrested four men today after finding dozens of posters stuck up around the city calling for the assassination of Pope John Paul II when he visits next month.
A 59-year-old Canoga Park man who told an undercover deputy sheriff wired with a tape recorder that he wanted a business competitor killed was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in state prison.
When 31-year-old Darrell Roberts of Santa Ana went on trial on murder charges in the death of his
A charge of attempted murder was dismissed Tuesday against Dr.
Murder and attempted murder charges were filed Friday against a Pacoima man who allegedly used his car to attack five motorcyclists last week.
The murder trial of James Hawkins Jr. took a confusing turn Tuesday when his brother took the stand
The state Court of Appeal has reinstated the second-degree murder and attempted murder conviction
A young woman was killed by an attacker in her apartment in Orange early today, and police were trying to determine whether the slaying was the latest attack by the "Night Stalker" killer.
It was a strident 1981 newspaper headline, "Plastics Heir Kills Mom," with its chilling reportage on matricide and incest that set Natalie Robins on a different path.
Daniel Steven Jenkins was accused by prosecutors Wednesday of being the masked man who gunned down Los Angeles Police Detective Thomas Williams last week hours after the officer gave testimony that helped convict Jenkins on a robbery and assault charge.
Because a suspect in the recent slaying of a Los Angeles police detective may have a conflict of interest with his present lawyer, Van Nuys Municipal Court Commissioner Patricia Schwartz on Friday appointed another attorney to temporarily advise the defendant.