Fereidoun Kohanim, a 72 year old shopkeeper in the Pico-Union neighborhood near Downtown Los Angeles, was brutally murdered in his store by 3 suspecte...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.21.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON – High unemployment. More folks on food stamps. Fewer owning their homes. Yet for all the signs of recession, something is missing: M...
Chicago Breaking News | December 18, 2009 4:12 PM | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago
Serial killer Andre Crawford was spared the death penalty today for the murders and rapes of 11 women on Chicago's South Side. ...
AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home
TORRANCE, Calif. — A 28-year-old man accused of throwing his new wife off a Southern California cliff has been convicted of murder. A Los Angel...
AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 12.17.2009 | Los Angeles
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A court commissioner had tentatively ordered a Houston woman to relinquish temporary custody of her two young children to he...
Catie Lazarus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Comedy
What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.
AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 12.16.2009 | Los Angeles
UPDATE: The LA Times reports: Authorities on Tuesday identified the four victims of a murder-suicide that took the lives of a mother, her two daughter...
AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a pregnant Los Angeles woman has been raped and stabbed to death by a former mental patient. The Los Angeles Coun...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether a man arrested in the rape and killing of a Venice woman pregnant with twins might be respo...
AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a 9-year-old neighbor who authorities say was slain beca...
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books
Al Roker has a wealth of fans from his role on NBC's hugely popular Today Show. Showing he is a true renaissance man, Roker has branched out into other areas the latest of which is mystery writer.
Pamela Tom | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles
What started out as a win for the defense -- getting the murder trial of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle moved -- will now become an even more publicized case reminiscent of Rodney King.
Suzie Heumann | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living
Do you remember the old folk ballad Down By the River Side - The one that has the line "I ain't gonna study war no more"? What if everyone studied Love instead? What would life be like?
Tina Traster | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living
As de-sensitized as we are, murder in a small town is unnerving. When we hear about it, our gut question is: Was the murder random or did the victim know her killer?
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO and MARTA FALCONI | Posted 12.06.2009 | World
PERUGIA, Italy — Amanda Knox sought comfort from visiting family members Saturday on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering ...
AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 12.04.2009 | Los Angeles
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Police said Friday they have issued a murder arrest warrant for one of two missing Southern California teens and believe cha...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living
Brian Thomas, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, was accused of killing his wife of nearly 40 years. He'd strangled her during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder.
AP | Posted 12.02.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A mistrial has been declared for two Los Angeles men accused of spraying bullets into a crowd in a 2006 gang attack that killed a ...
Norm Stamper | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Whether Clemmons was seeking cover to pull his gun and fire, or about to flee, the officer did precisely the right thing. It was not a "cold-blooded murder", it was a courageous and necessary act.
AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A New York man has been charged with killing his pregnant estranged wife – 18 years after her body and her dead fetus wer...
AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A twice-fired nursing supervisor enraged at two co-workers who accused him of sexual harassment was convicted Monday of killin...
DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Maurice Clemmons is now dead. But treatment for his illness would have been better for all. We have to stop denying violence and start treating it.
AP | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
STOCKHOLM — Swedish police say they've cleared a man who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife after deciding the culprit was most likel...
AP | Travis Reed | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home
JUPITER, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed f...
AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-...
Posted 12.23.2009 | Los Angeles