Articles by Megan Garvey

A veteran Hollywood actor best known for his performance in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” pleaded not guilty today to charges of premeditated attempted murder in an attack that left his former girlfriend in critical condition with 20 stab wounds, authorities said. Read more

Two inmates stabbed to death a 22-year-old federal prison guard Friday afternoon in an incident under investigation by federal authorities, officials at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater said today. Read more

The death of a Navy hospitalman in a rocket attack Wednesday brings the number of Californians killed since the wars began in Afghanistan and Iraq to 500. Read more

The southbound truck tunnel on Interstate 5 near Santa Clarita is expected to reopen at 5 p.m. Read more

Prosecutors grappled on Wednesday with what charges, if any, to file against the 10-year-old boy who admitted he set a fire last week that charred more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes in northern Los Angeles County. Read more

What do you say to the man who murdered your sister? Read more

A man convicted last month in the nearly 23-year-old stabbing death of a woman in Torrance was sentenced Friday to life without the possibility of parole by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark S. Arnold. Read more

Despite widespread estimates that as many as 1 million evacuees fled Southern California’s wildfires, the number of people displaced from their homes at any one time appears to have been substantially lower. Read more

For nearly an hour, Marianne Shannon thought Stevenson Ranch’s luck had run out. Read more