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Mid-Wilshire man accused of killing brother before standoff
A man was booked on suspicion of murder today after allegedly fatally shooting his brother outside a residence in the Mid-Wilshire area and barricading himself inside for six hours before surrendering to a SWAT ...
Fire in Placer County controlled
Firefighters responded to and controlled a fire in Placer County near Loomis shortly after noon today.
Mom, two toddlers apparent homocide victims
About 3:45p.m. Wednesday Oroville police found a woman and her two toddlers dead in an apartment on Mono Avenue on the west side of Table Mountain Boulevard.
UC Riverside Professor Found Murdered
An autopsy was pending today on the death of a popular and highly respected UC Riverside English professor whose slain body was found in his Long Beach home over the weekend, authorities said.
California mountain towns clean up mud flows
Bulldozers worked Tuesday to reopen roads and clear tons of mud left by flash floods after thunderstorms unleashed downpours on mountain slopes burned bare by California wildfires.
That's not a Bluetooth headset
The first time someone snatched the speech processor from behind her son's ear, Hilda Giron got it back.
'Black Widows' to be sentenced in deaths
Two women are scheduled to be sentenced today for taking out insurance polices on two homeless men, then arranging to have them killed in hit-and-run accidents in Los Angeles alleys.
Brothers accused in violent Asian gang spree arrested
Two brothers from an Asian gang accused in a series of murders in one of the largest death penalty cases in state history have been arrested in the Phillipines and are awaiting extradition, police announced ...
FBI, Police Searching for 'Scuzzy Bandit'
The FBI said Friday said a man believed to have robbed a bank in Poway and two in the Clairemont area over the past three weeks was still at large.
Dead sea lion had bullet-like holesA rugged stretch of coast near...
A rugged stretch of coast near John Daly Boulevard in Daly City became a marine mammal mortuary Tuesday, littered with a harbor porpoise corpse and what appeared to be the bullet-riddled body of a sea lion.
From The Record archive: Teen pleads guilty to assault in I-5 rock attack
A 16-year-old boy accused of hurling a chunk of concrete at a truck from a highway overpass, leaving the truck driver permanently comatose, has pleaded guilty to assault and faces a 12-year prison sentence.
Construction Worker Crushed by Forklift
A 34-year-old construction worker was killed today when a forklift bucket that was being loaded with debris tipped forward and struck him, a fire official said.
Lawsuit claims LAPD shot, killed man because he was black
A Woodland Hills woman has filed a lawsuit against the city, saying Los Angeles police officers shot her husband to death because he was black.
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Brown Announces Major Compton Gang Crackdown, Arrest of Killer Mail Carrier
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday July 8, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Contact: Gareth Lacy, California Department of Justice, 324-5500 or Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Deputy Bill Braudberger, 267-4813 ...
Pico Rivera man killed in crash
A Pico Rivera man was killed late Monday when he was thrown from his motorcycle in a freeway crash, authorities said.
Police Search for Bank Robbery Suspect
Authorities asked the public today to keep an eye out for a mentally unstable and possibly armed parolee suspected of robbing a Midway-area bank last week.
Sea lion stuck in Santa Clara; rescue attempt is likely today
Lost and lonely, a California sea lion is looking for a way home. It's trapped in a shallow strip of water along a concrete channel of San Tomas Aquino Creek in Santa Clara.
Four immigrants rescued near Buckman Springs
Four immigrants rescued near Buckman Springs EAST COUNTY: Four people believed to be illegal immigrants were rescued in the mountains near Buckman Springs yesterday, Cal Fire officials said.
Coronado Stabbing Sends Two To Hospital
A teenage boy is hospitalized Saturday after he and a young woman were stabbed on the Fourth of July in Coronado Cays, a police dispatcher said.
Push is on to stall Goleta fire before winds; more evacuations at Big Sur
A fire has reached as close as 2 miles to populated areas of Goleta today after burning through 200 to 300 acres in Los Padres National Forest since Tuesday evening, authorities said.