Despite the new investigation into Bay Area slayings connected to "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, it remains unclear whether the serial killer would ever stand trial in the cases. San Francisco police announced Thursday that DNA evidence had linked...

A Los Angeles County coroner's report shows Michael Jackson was fairly healthy before he died of an overdose, although his arms were covered with punctures and his face and neck were scarred, the Associated Press reports this morning. He weighe...

Michael Jackson’s personal physician left the performer alone and under the influence of a powerful anesthetic to make telephone calls the morning the pop singer died, according to three people familiar with the investigation.

An overnight riot between African American and Latino inmates inside a Chino prison has been quelled, but the facility and other Southern California prisons remain in lockdown today, authorities said. Prison officers at the California Institute for ...

Los Angeles residents voted for Barack Obama is large numbers last November (69% compared to 29% for John McCain). So it's somewhat surprising that a controversy over a public critique of the president would start on the streets of L.A. But that...

Roman Polanski is expected to spend the holidays under electronic monitoring at his posh Alpine chalet after a Swiss court agreed to a $4.5-million bail request by the famed director. Legal experts said the bail is likely to lengthen what is expected...

A Los Angeles jury decided today that a homeless man convicted of killing an LAX officer in 2005 was sane at the time of the crime, paving the way for a likely sentence of life in prison without parole. William Sadowski, 51, of Venice allegedly...

Los Angeles could be facing a $1-billion deficit by the time Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wraps up his second term in 2013, a dire forecast driven primarily by escalating employee pension costs and stagnant tax revenues, the city’s top budget analyst...

Neighbors on Bluejay Way, a quiet housing tract near Harmony Elementary School in Hemet, expressed shock today as news filtered in about the charred remains found at a house on the street. Robert Rotsolk said he smelled what seemed like a bonfire...

A photograph of Grape Street Elementary School students that has been on a ride with the space shuttle Atlantis will return Friday along with the crew that's carrying it. The crew took off Nov. 16 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission...