Meteorologists are projecting unusually high temperatures in Southern California this week, with the heat predicted to climb above 100 degrees in the San Fernando Valley and reach the 90s elsewhere. After a balmy weekend, temperatures are expected to start rising […]
A heat wave is coming to Southern California, especially in the Valley Read More »
Police are looking for a Santa Barbara man who disappeared from the Big Bear Lake area just after midnight Friday. Tanner Prentiss, 22, was visiting Big Bear Lake over the weekend with some friends but failed to return to his
UC Santa Barbara student missing in Big Bear during weekend visit Read More »
When Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her Van Nuys townhome in February 1986, bludgeoned badly and shot three times, detectives called it a burglary gone bad — a disastrously mistaken conclusion that did not budge for decades. Rasmussen was
It took LAPD 23 years to ID one of their own as culprit in fatal love triangle Read More »
An Orange County jury deadlocked Monday on a charge of second-degree murder against a 74-year-old Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife after hours of bickering and hard drinking. After eight days of deliberations, the jury was split
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Sitting outside his Anaheim Hills home with his hands cuffed behind his back, Jeffrey Ferguson muttered and raged and sobbed. He bragged of past glories, of putting outlaws behind bars, and lamented that his son would now hate him forever.
Heart-wrenching opening for trial of O.C. judge who fatally shot wife Read More »
Six months after an American man whisked his infant son out of Italy against the mother’s wishes and deliberately withheld the child’s whereabouts, a federal judge ruled this week that the mother can return with the child to her native
O.C. judge sides with Italian mom in international child custody dispute Read More »
He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day oration spared two infamous young murderers from hanging. He
Before Scopes, Clarence Darrow fought another battle. He was accused of bribing a jury Read More »
Fire authorities have issued evacuation warnings as an 85-acre wildfire burns near Canyon Crest Drive in Riverside County. The Canyon Crest Fire was first reported Saturday evening and its cause remains under investigation, according to the California Department of Forestry
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William Dale Archerd drank highballs, married frequently and despised 9-to-5 employment. He was Arkansas-born, slender, with pale blue eyes and wavy silver hair. He inspired romantic devotion in women and trust in criminal confederates. For decades, his wives and acquaintances
His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: Insulin Read More »
Saying the killer had shown no remorse, a judge on Friday sentenced Samuel Woodward to life in prison without parole for murdering a gay former schoolmate in January 2018. In July, an Orange County jury convicted Woodward of first-degree murder
Orange County man receives life sentence for hate-motivated murder Read More »
