A 19-year-old Compton man was convicted Monday of murdering a popular Compton grocer with a baseball bat last January while he was free pending sentencing on his guilty plea to kidnaping.
role in the kidnaping and murder of a young Pacoima man last November.
A woman was sentenced to serve 26 years to life in state prison for helping her lover arrange her husband's murder for his $500,000 life-insurance policy.
What is wrong with this world when a man like Olof Palme, who has worked so hard for peace and democracy, is coldly gunned down in a normally peaceful nation?
The Lemon Grove man charged with murder in the Dec. 28 slaying of a Jacumba campground security
A 45-year-old Rosemead man has been convicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the execution-style slayings of a Baldwin Park couple.
had a role in the murder of a wealthy attorney and his wife, authorities said Tuesday.
A Compton man has been arrested as the prime suspect in the clubbing death last week of a popular grocer who founded a Baptist church next door to his Alondra Boulevard market, police said Monday.
A reputed member of the Israeli Mafia, who was deported after testifying as a key prosecution witness in the 1979 dismemberment murders of a couple at the Bonaventure Hotel, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court to a charge of illegally returning to the United States.
A motion to dismiss a murder charge against a 47-year-old Vista woman in the death of her brother was denied Thursday by a Vista Superior Court judge.
man wanted for the execution-style murder of a suspected cocaine dealer surrendered in Orange County on Wednesday, Costa Mesa police said.
the robbery and murder in August, 1985, of a restaurant manager in Ventura County.
Averting his eyes from those of "Billionaire Boys Club" leader Joe Hunt, a former member of the investment fraternity testified Thursday that Hunt bragged that he had murdered a Beverly Hills con man who had double-crossed him.
The FBI has set up a round-the-clock hot line in the hope of getting tips on the woman who kidnaped an infant after killing the baby's mother and injuring her grandmother, police said Sunday.
Two men convicted of shooting a farm worker to death in a Cypress strawberry field in a long-running vendetta were both sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday.
Thomas Drescher, convicted of murdering a fellow Hare Krishna whose death has not yet been confirmed by positive identification of his body, has begun serving a life sentence in prison, while an accomplice has been sentenced to a one- to five-year term.
The student who killed an associate professor before committing suicide last week at California State University, Northridge, was in danger of being dropped from a engineering master's program because of a low grade from the teacher, authorities said Monday.
five party-goers outside a South-Central Los Angeles home was ordered Thursday to stand trial on murder charges.
A La Mirada man whose death sentence for raping and murdering two girls eight years ago was overturned by the state Supreme Court in 1984 was condemned to death a second time Thursday.
The county is paying "excessive" amounts of up to $18,000 per month to individual attorneys appointed to defend clients facing the death penalty, a report issued Thursday said.