Seven years ago, police asked Fabiola Saavedra to view photographs to identify a body they believed to be her 15-year-old sister, Brenda Sierra. She recognized a pair of hoop earrings and knew it was Brenda.
Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.
Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.
Mourners gathered Saturday to remember two California firefighters who died last month battling the largest fire in the history of Los Angeles County.
A reward for information on who set a fatal wildfire that has been burning north of Los Angeles for almost two weeks has been raised to $150,000, officials said Tuesday.
Firefighters battling a massive blaze north of Los Angeles have stopped the fire from spreading while increasing the percentage of containment, officials said Monday.
Two firefighters died Sunday battling a wildfire in Los Angeles County, according to Deputy Fire Chief Michael Bryant.
The drugs said to have contributed to Michael Jackson's death are routinely used in hospital settings, but should never be combined at home, medical professionals say.
Not even the dead can escape the recession's sting.
Police also say his doctor "is not a missing person" but they do want to talk to him again
Seven years ago, police asked Fabiola Saavedra to view photographs to identify a body they believed to be her 15-year-old sister, Brenda Sierra. She recognized a pair of hoop earrings and knew it was Brenda.
Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.
Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.
Mourners gathered Saturday to remember two California firefighters who died last month battling the largest fire in the history of Los Angeles County.
A reward for information on who set a fatal wildfire that has been burning north of Los Angeles for almost two weeks has been raised to $150,000, officials said Tuesday.
Firefighters battling a massive blaze north of Los Angeles have stopped the fire from spreading while increasing the percentage of containment, officials said Monday.
Two firefighters died Sunday battling a wildfire in Los Angeles County, according to Deputy Fire Chief Michael Bryant.
The drugs said to have contributed to Michael Jackson's death are routinely used in hospital settings, but should never be combined at home, medical professionals say.
Not even the dead can escape the recession's sting.
Police also say his doctor "is not a missing person" but they do want to talk to him again
Megan Cavallari looks up from her stack of hundreds of faxes and documents, proof of her efforts to try to save her home from foreclosure. She's been on hold for over an hour, trying to get details for a loan modification.
Tori's mom and Aaron's widow puts the family mansion up for sale
The sound of pounding hooves thunders in the high desert air. A cloud of dust marks the trail of a herd of wild horses as they race across the arid plain. This is Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue, a shelter for wild mustangs and unwanted horses near Lancaster, California.
Elizabeth Gore, with a voice soaked in motherly calm, counsels her suicidal caller.
Attorneys for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside Los Angeles be assigned to decide a motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
An 850-pound emerald said to be worth as much as $370 million is in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while a court decides who really owns it, a spokesman for the sheriff said.
A wildfire that destroyed more than 200 structures, including several mansions in a community where celebrities own homes, was sparked by a bonfire that its makers apparently thought was extinguished, authorities said.
Firefighters will need at least until midweek to get control of wildfires that have destroyed more than 900 homes and other structures in Southern California, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman says.
One of three major wildfires burning in southern California appears to be "human caused," a spokesman for the state's fire agency said Sunday.
Los Angeles fire officials say they're worried that nighttime winds could push two major wildfires, which already are blamed in two deaths, closer to pricey neighborhoods on the Pacific coast.
My husband raised the alarm in early 2006. After nine years my job-training and placement business had stalled. Human Potential Consultants was still in startup mode, bringing in less than $400,000 in annual revenue. I was drawing no salary, and we struggled to meet payroll each month.
Friday's two-train collision killed 25 people and injured more than 130 others near Los Angeles after an engineer failed to heed a traffic signal, a spokeswoman for Metrolink commuter trains said.
Debates surrounding immigration and racial issues show that the face of America is changing every day, and a Thursday census report confirms it, noting that almost one in 10 U.S. counties is made up predominantly of minorities.
"What am I going to do? Holler at her?" Kris Jenner laments after her daughter gets up to 30 days in a DUI case
Millions of California motorists have had to put down their cell phones or risk a ticket as a new law takes effect requiring hands-free devices for those behind the wheel
Workers using blowtorches accidentally started a weekend fire at Universal Studios, Los Angeles County spokeswoman Judy Hammond told CNN Monday.
There are no injuries reported and the MTV Awards will go on as scheduled
A 400-acre wildfire raging through dry brush and shrubs in Southern California was about 30 percent contained by Sunday afternoon, an official said.
Two or three people are killed each day by others in Los Angeles County. Most of them died anonymously until Jill Leovy and her blog, The Homicide Report, came along.
The couple, who married in 1998 and have two children, split in 2006
Dear FSB: I own a tutoring service and have one client who refuses to pay for services rendered. He owes me about $2,500. I've spent five months trying to collect, with no luck. What now?
Danielle Fishel, best known as buxom fan favorite Topanga on the '90s sitcom Boy Meets World, was arrested on a Los Angeles County drunk driving warrant early Thursday morning.
Firefighters expected to fully contain on Monday a fire that tore through Malibu's canyons and hills over the weekend, destroying more than 50 homes, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
A campfire set by people "partying" in the woods may have started a huge wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes near Malibu, California, on Saturday.
The young boy who started one of the worst of Southern California's wildfires last month will not be criminally charged
A boy playing with matches started a Southern California wildfire that scorched more than 38,000 acres, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.
Most lanes of Interstate 5 reopened hours before the Monday morning commute, the California Highway Patrol said. A section of the freeway had been closed all weekend in the aftermath of a deadly blaze Friday night in a Los Angeles County truck tunnel.
Firefighters have made it about 50 feet inside the interstate tunnel north of Los Angeles where two people died in a massive fire that erupted from an apparent big-rig collision Friday night, California officials said Saturday.
Back in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan informed us that the times were a-changin'. He was right, at least ethnically; America was, back then, a very different place.
The worsening housing market and rising foreclosures are finally starting to affect parts of the state that have long seemed immune. Will it spread farther?
A smiling Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles County jail early Tuesday, officially ending a bizarre, three-week stay that ignited furious debate over celebrity treatment in the jail system
Paris Hilton was ordered to appear in court Friday instead of calling in from home, yet another reversal in her twisted path toward serving time on a probation violation
Demonstrators descended on city centers across the country Tuesday to press Congress to give the estimated 12 million people in the United States illegally a path to citizenship.
It has been 18 years since American racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were murdered in the driveway of their Bradbury, California, home by two hooded gunmen who escaped on bicycles.
The Supreme Court heard debate Tuesday on whether free-speech protections apply to government employees at their jobs.
Firefighters battling a wildfire that has charred more than 24,000 acres northwest of Los Angeles have contained about two-thirds of the blaze and expect to have it fully under control Monday, according to fire officials.
Firefighters expect to have a massive wildfire burning northwest of Los Angeles under control by Monday evening.
Firefighters in Simi Valley made slow headway Friday as they began to gain control of a raging wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that has scorched nearly 24,000 acres. By late Friday, the blaze was 40 percent contained.
A fire in Southern California has more than quadrupled in size in 24 hours, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate Thursday, officials said.
While the savvy bargain hunter can tell the real Coach handbag from a fake, many discerning buyers are missing one critical detail -- that purse or DVD for sale on the street corner might be funding a terrorist organization.
ON THE PAIN SCALE, WATCHing bad comedy probably falls somewhere between dental surgery and having dinner with Anna Nicole Smith. It's pain that John Hakel, vice president of government relations fo...
Slower winds, lower temperatures and higher humidity brightened Tuesday's outlook for firefighters battling a nearly 6,000-acre wildfire in Los Angeles County, where residents were being kept away from about 350 homes.
With NBC's alarmist 10.5 miniseries and a UCLA geophysicist's claim to have cracked the Holy Grail of earthquake prediction (he says to expect the Big One in California this September), the lines b...
California's Olive Oil is about where its wine was 20 years ago: A few small producers are making great products, yet many consumers still think the best stuff comes from Europe. The U.S. imports a...
A gay couple has filed suit challenging the denial of a request for a marriage license in Los Angeles County.
A judge agreed Thursday to move Scott Peterson's murder trial outside of Peterson's hometown of Modesto, California, after the defense argued pre-trial publicity clouded the potential jury pool.
A California judge will hear arguments Thursday over whether a man accused of killing his wife and their unborn child can get a fair trial in his hometown.
Outside, bolts of luscious fabrics share the sidewalks with bundles of fragrant flowers, walls of tinted sunglasses, and bins of Prada knockoffs. Inside, next season's slip dresses hang in showroom...
In America's great capitalist tradition, the trial of O.J. Simpson has evolved into a moneymaking industry. You have friends and neighbors making book deals, a made-for-TV movie, $20 don't squeeze ...
The decline and fall of California became apparent to me one autumn night in 1992 soon after I moved back following 10 years away. I was riding with Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officers...
The threat of tax reform continues to cripple the U.S. municipal bond market, but state and local governments still need to raise money. Los Angeles County, which borrows about $1.3 billion annuall...
OLD BUT STILL hotly controversial, the idea of letting private industry do more of government's work has caught fire in the 1980s. Pressed by tax revolts and spending limits, federal and local offi...
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