dead were assigned Friday to desk duty, pending the outcome of two separate investigations.
Two white men, convicted of burning a black woman alive in the trunk of a car after they had raped her, Thursday were sentenced to hang after a trial that had been closely watched as a test of South African justice.
A Thai court sentenced an Australian to death Monday for possessing 4.4 pounds of heroin intended for sale, court officials reported.
The death of Orson Welles has recalled to me an almost forgotten incident when I was perhaps 17 and he was in his early 20s.
" We make all kinds of films over here, but one thing we don't do is make films where people die and come back to life."
A juror who had posted "No Smoking" signs on the wall near her desk at work was removed Monday from a trial to determine whether the R.
The death of an elderly driver apparently was caused by heart failure, not by injuries he suffered
death in the fourth fatality involving a shuttle worker in less than five years, officials said today.
On a desolate mountain trail about two hours' walk from this remote village, Marilyn Sanggawa, 15, and two 11-year-old girlfriends may have paid the price for the way their village voted in the Feb. 7 presidential election.
The murder was motivated by money.
A federal appeals court today overturned the death sentence of John Harvey Adamson, confessed
Police today confirmed the "unnatural death" of a former Libyan diplomat.
The resignation of Chief Justice Warren E.
A San Diego man believed to be in his 40s was stabbed to death in a North Park house Sunday
Jurors today recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber for a man convicted of murdering three
A Northridge resident was arrested on suspicion of murder Thursday night after the shooting of a Pacoima man, Los Angeles police said.
Cocaine-related deaths in Los Angeles County increased dramatically between 1982 and 1985, the county Drug Abuse Program office reported.
People who kill whites are 11 times more likely to get the death penalty in Georgia than those who
The head varsity basketball coach at a parochial school in Torrance was found shot to death early
The city attorney's office has recommended payment of $775,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Pacoima man who was accidentally shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer six years ago.