Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

Los Angeles Fire Department officials chose not to order 1,000 available firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on 13 female prisoners at ...

In a new interview on the Jan. 13 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Snoop Dogg opened up about meeting Paul McCartney — and ...

Two dozen men are under sentences of death sought by Sacramento County prosecutors and imposed by local juries, state data ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan military prosecutors on Monday added a charge of "treachery" - which carries the death penalty - ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has denied parole for a Merced man who is behind bars for the murder of his wife, Diane Reid. In a news release Sunday afternoon, California assemblymember Esmeralda Soria (D-Merced) ...

Firefighters were racing against time Saturday to get on top of massive wildfires around Los Angeles as winds ramped up, ...

Justin Trudeau says U.S. president-elect Donald Trump kicked the tires on the potential annexation of Canada during their ...

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...

Prosecutors in Arizona are seeking to execute a prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty after a ...