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Friday, August 29, 2008
Police on the hunt for serial killer
California | Local |
12:00AM, August 29
An elusive serial killer, linked to 10 slayings in South Los Angeles and Inglewood over nearly two decades, resurfaced early last year to kill again, Los Angeles police officials said. Read more
Friday, August 22, 2008
Defense lawyer speaks out in San Marino case
California | Local |
August 22, 2008
A Boston man whom authorities describe as a “person of interest” in the 1985 disappearance of a San Marino couple barely knew Linda and Jonathan Sohus and left town months after they vanished, his attorney said Thursday. Read more
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
LAPD loses $500,000 for lab tests
California | Local |
August 13, 2008
The Los Angeles Police Department has been denied nearly $500,000 in federal funds it would have received to help clear its backlog of unexamined DNA samples from crime scenes because of a bureaucratic mistake that LAPD brass blamed on a low-level administrator. Read more
Thursday, May 29, 2008
5 bodies at house were dressed in black
California | Local |
May 29, 2008
The bodies of five family members found in a San Clemente home over the weekend were dressed in black, Orange County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday. Read more
Saturday, May 17, 2008
A tangled murder mystery
California | Local |
May 17, 2008
Late one night in 2003, a body was found in a scorched minivan along a Watts riverbank. Read more
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Teen moms reported at sect’s ranch
National |
April 9, 2008
Child welfare investigators who entered a polygamist compound in West Texas this weekend found many pregnant teenagers and underage girls who said they were forced to marry, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Read more
Saturday, March 29, 2008
After 27 years, his duty still calls
California | Local |
March 29, 2008
Maybe it was memories from the murdered woman’s bracelet. Read more
Monday, March 3, 2008
The ‘why’ of ricin cache is still a puzzle
National |
March 3, 2008
As mysteries go, this one offers an intriguing trail of clues: A man who suddenly falls ill. Read more
Friday, February 29, 2008
Suspect’s blog was the net that snared him
California | Local |
February 29, 2008
For a generation, LAPD homicide investigators kept alive the case of 28-year-old Japanese tourist Kazumi Miura, shot in the head on a featureless side street in the shadow of a Los Angeles urban icon: downtown’s four-level freeway interchange. Read more
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
GPS helps crack case in killing, police say
California | Local |
December 12, 2007
In what officials are calling a first for the LAPD, detectives on
Tuesday said they got a crucial and immediate break in a slaying case
by using a Global Positioning Satellite system that was tracking the
movements of gang members. Read more
Sunday, December 9, 2007
A diligent detective traces an abusive priest’s victim
California | Local |
December 9, 2007
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Det. Read more
Friday, November 30, 2007
LAPD far short of funds for DNA tests
California | Local |
November 30, 2007
The Los Angeles Police Department would need $9.3 million to clear
up a backlog of untested DNA evidence that could hold the key to
solving hundreds of sexual assaults and other violent crimes, but
state and local money is falling far short of covering the cost,
officials say. Read more
Monday, October 29, 2007
Why arson trails often grow cold
California | Local |
October 29, 2007
Four years ago this weekend, witnesses saw a man flipping lighted
matches from the window of a van – setting off the Old fire, which
eventually killed four people and burned more than 200 homes in San
Bernardino County. Read more
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Bombing may stay unsolved
World |
October 24, 2007
The government of President Pervez Musharraf says that those
responsible for trying to kill former leader Benazir Bhutto in a
horrific bombing last week that left nearly 140 people dead will be
brought to justice. Read more
Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Variety of clues lead to arrest in slaying - A videotape, a tipster and DNA evidence from a plastic milk bottle help police identify an alleged gang member in a Hollywood liquor store shooting.
California | Local |
August 28, 2007
It was a graphic killing caught on videotape. Read more
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Others sought in Oakland slaying
California | Local |
August 7, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO – A 19-year-old man who confessed to the
execution-style slaying of an Oakland journalist last week did not
act alone, Oakland police said Monday. Read more
Saturday, July 7, 2007
THE NATION - Nation in Brief / NEW YORK - FBI probes threats to Goldman Sachs
National |
July 7, 2007
The FBI is investigating anonymous mailed threats against the Goldman
Sachs investment firm but does not consider the warnings to be of
high credibility, an investigator said in New York. Read more
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Case of the empty regional crime lab is no mystery
California | Local |
May 12, 2007
Faced with huge backlogs in unprocessed DNA and other types of
criminal evidence, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and LAPD Chief
William J. Bratton had long been looking forward to Friday’s
ribbon-cutting for the new joint-agency regional crime lab. Read more
