A state appellate court has ordered that a new judge hear a convicted murderer's plea for release from a state psychiatric hospital, stating that the Van Nuys Superior Court judge who had been hearing the case may have acted emotionally, rather than objectively, when she denied the release last spring.
A self-proclaimed revolutionary convicted in the 1981 shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper was sentenced to life in prison.
An Arleta man was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in state prison for the January, 1985, killing of a transient drug dealer whose body was found near Hansen Dam.
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A private attorney was appointed Monday to defend an Orange County Jail inmate accused of killing two cell mates in separate incidents, court officials said.
Burbank police distributed hundreds of leaflets during rush-hour traffic Friday morning hoping to turn up clues in the so-far baffling slaying of a pregnant woman who was leaving for work.
in the past month by a suspected serial killer--face a dilemma, activists said Thursday.
The police officer who arrested Malcolm Schlette 31 years ago, and one of five men on the elderly ex-con's hit list, called Schlette "the most vicious criminal I ever bumped into."
Jurors in Department 34 of Orange County Superior Court heard two stories Wednesday morning.
isolated places at night as detectives pressed the search for a killer who may be responsible for the deaths of four men shot in the head while they slept.
Roswell Gilbert, convicted of killing his ailing wife of 51 years in what he called an act of love, said today he "almost came unglued" watching the television movie about the case but is convinced he saved her from suffering and would do it again.
Presidential assailant John W.
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked today's scheduled execution of Willie Celestine, convicted of raping and killing an 81-year-old woman.
The honeymoon was over before it started for condemned killer James Briley, who embraced his bride
To police and prosecutors, it was a simple act of self-defense when an unidentified patron of a Westside Vietnamese bar shot and killed 19-year-old Louis Moses.
Adam Salas Ramirez, convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of his lover's husband in Huntington Beach, was sentenced Friday to 28 years to life in prison.
State agriculture officials revealed Thursday that a recently identified colony of Africanized honeybees built a sizable underground hive in which they have been flourishing, probably for more than a year.
armor-piercing, "cop-killer" bullets in this country, and sent it to the Senate.
While scientists comb the dusty terrain of Central California looking for missing swarms of killer
Although conceding that the threat from Africanized honeybees is not as serious as first thought, state Food and Agriculture Director Clare Berryhill on Wednesday ordered stepped-up testing of commercial hives in a 400-square-mile quarantine area of Central California.