The three victims died this past week in crashes in Mission Valley, Poway and La Presa, the Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Ten people have already died in Los Angeles County’s jails since the start of the year, putting the average at one death every five days and well ahead of the total by this time last year. Th county ...

Authorities suspect Carl Grillmair was shot by man arrested for carjacking, as friends mourn him as ‘irreplaceable’ ...

A Caltech genius was found gunned down on his porch in Southern California, and now authorities are trying to piece together what happened.

Carl Grillmair was a Caltech scientist focusing on dark matter, galactic structure, stellar populations, and exoplanets.

Carl Grillmair was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 ...

An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in the Antelope Valley.

The second person killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Westchester was identified by authorities Thursday. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded at 2:03 a.m.

Detectives have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 67-year-old man on the front porch of a Llano home this week, officials announced Thursday.

Newly surfaced autopsy details and a private forensic study are challenging aspects of the official account of Kurt Cobain's 1994 death, which Seattle Police continue to classify as suicide. Independe ...

Deaths in Kentucky prisons last year soared from 39 to 63. A Louisville lawmaker wants to establish a fatality review board.