Jurors recommended the death penalty Wednesday for one of two state prison parolees convicted of shooting to death a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer during a routine traffic stop.
William Wilson was moving dirt with a skiploader around a Kern County oil field when he spotted the dead fox.
The state Supreme Court Thursday disbarred a San Diego lawyer who killed his wife by shooting her 10 times and ruled that the State Bar's proposal to suspend the lawyer for 2 1/2 years was "inadequate."
William Archie Fain, the convicted murderer and rapist whose parole stirred a public outcry, was arrested by two citizens after he was spotted peeping into a bedroom window, police said today.
Hurricane Elena mushroomed into a potential killer Friday, prompting the evacuation of 100,000
A North Hollywood woman who brutally killed her mother and attempted to kill her daughter in 1980 was ordered Wednesday to remain in a mental hospital, despite recommendations from county and state officials that she be released.
It was just a formality; the conclusion foregone. Judge Robert R.
A man convicted of murdering a Sylmar motel manager during a night of robberies 3 1/2 years ago was sentenced Friday to 17 years in state prison on robbery and attempted-murder charges.
A Granada Hills man's failure to appear in court Tuesday for his sentencing on a voluntary-manslaughter conviction stunned and angered the family and friends of the victim.
A killer who skipped bail and eluded police for three days was arrested Friday morning in Granada
A former Palm Springs man who escaped from Folsom Prison by crawling through a storm drain after security bars had been cut remained at large Saturday, and authorities believe he is only the third prisoner in a quarter-century to break out from behind the granite walls of the maximum-security penitentiary.
Wednesday for a judge to send the convicted killer to prison for life.
A convicted murderer wants a new trial on grounds that he was allegedly cuckolded by his former lawyer.
Still maintaining his innocence, the Vietnamese student convicted of killing California State University, Fullerton, physics professor Edward Lee Cooperman has been released from prison after serving 18 months of a three-year sentence.
A 14-year-old San Diego youth Monday received the stiffest punishment possible for killing his elderly next-door neighbor when the man surprised him during a burglary.
Mauricio Silva, convicted of killing three teen-agers within a week after his release from prison in May, 1984, should receive the death penalty, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury recommended Wednesday.
A woman found murdered in a Watts alley Monday may be the 18th victim of the Southside Serial
Larry Young thought that his brother, Dannie, should have been placed in a mental hospital several years ago.
After months of patrolling highways for the hit-and-run trucker who killed his son, Claude Sams is now searching for the witness who led police to a suspect and then disappeared before charges could be filed.
A transient who was sentenced to prison earlier this month for her part in the 1984 killing of a Northridge pharmacist testified Monday that Jack Oscar Leo fired the shot that killed the druggist.