Homicides don't happen often in Malibu, so residents are doubly shocked today to learn about the fatal beating a man took Sunday night outside of a restaurant. The victim, a dishwasher at Guido's Malibu on Cross Creek Road, "was taking out the trash when he was confronted and brutally beaten" at the back of the restaurant. more ›

An official report form the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review issued today explores the failings in the handling of the death of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman whose remains were found a year after she had been released from custody by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's Lost Hills/Malibu station. more ›

The Los Angeles County coroner's office will be reviewing conservative muckraker Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death at age 43. Breitbart was on a midnight walk last night near his home in Westwood, where he lived with his wife Susannah Bean Breitbart and their four children. more ›

"We do not know the cause of death," said Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills Police Department during a press conference held at 11:30 this morning regarding the late Whitney Houston. The singer was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday afternoon. more ›

The family of singer Whitney Houston has been told the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office no longer needs to hold her body, and they are free to collect her remains and make funeral arrangements, according to a coroner's lieutenant, reports City News Service. more ›

An autopsy found that there was water in the lungs of Whitney Houston, who was found unconscious in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton suite yesterday afternoon. more ›

Authorities have called off the search for more body parts in the rugged Hollywood Hills terrain where so far a head, two feet, and two hands have been discovered as part of an ongoing homicide investigation. more ›

A second severed human hand was found this afternoon by authorities combing the hiking trails and surrounding terrain in the Hollywood Hills near where a human head was discovered Tuesday afternoon. more ›

The search is underway again today for additional human remains belonging to an apparent homicide victim whose head was discovered Tuesday afternoon in the Hollywood Hills. The head was found by two women walking with several dogs in the hills near the 3200 block of Canyon Drive. more ›

The Los Angeles County Coroner's office confirmed today that Dwight Arrington Myers, aka rap star Heavy D, died of cardiovascular disease. more ›

The body of a woman who had apparently been bludgeoned to death was discovered just after midnight today by a cleaning crew inside a rented room at the Olympic Hotel in the MacArthur Park area. The woman appears to be about 40 years old. more ›

Griffen Kramer, the 18-year-old Thousand Oaks High School quarterback found dead in October at a buddy's house, died of a heroin overdose, according to toxicology reports released by the L.A. County coroner's office. more ›

Rap legend Heavy D "weighed 344 pounds at the time of his death yesterday," TMZ is reporting. "Officials recorded Heavy's height and weight as part of their investigation into his sudden and unexpected passing," they explain. more ›

Last week, the family of 67-year-old David Lavau located their loved one alive and surviving on bugs and leaves at the base of a ravine in Castaic. His vehicle had plunged off a mountain road a week earlier, and was located near a second vehicle that contained the body of a deceased male. Now authorities are hoping to identify the body, and that man's relatives believe he is missing Palms resident Melvin Gelfand. more ›

A body found off Seal Beach last week has been confirmed as being that of missing swimmer Joe Wayne Benford of Long Beach, reports the OC Register. Benford, 24, had been missing for two weeks after he disappeared in rough waters while body-boarding with friends. more ›

Remember those two teens found dead inside a vacant Huntington Beach apartment in January? Found on scene was a variety of evidence indicating likely drug and alcohol use, including an empty bottle of Four Loko, the energy drink that has been banned in some states. Today the coroner has released a report indicating the teens died from drug overdoses, though alcohol played a role in one of the two's death, according to the OC Register. more ›

The naked body of a deceased woman was discovered late Monday night next to an off-ramp of the I-5 Freeway in Boyle Heights. The corpse, left in a plastic storage container, was likely dumped by her killer or killers, say the Los Angeles Police Department, according to LA Now. The body was found in the brush off the freeway at State Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue by a homeless person, who notified authorities. more ›

The California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles County Cornoner's office are working to piece together a troubling case this morning, after a dead body was discovered on the 10 Freeway, according to the LA Times. The body was first spotted "in the middle lanes of the 10 Freeway near Crenshaw Boulevard" at around 3:35 this morning, and reported to the CHP. While on the freeway, an estimated minimum of 20 vehicles struck the body and continued on, according to a live report on KTLA. Reportedly those drivers may have thought the body was debris. more ›

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department personnel and officials from the coroner's office found eight small bones in a ravine in Malibu Canyon this weekend, and it is possible they are further remains of Mitrice Richardson, according to Malibu Patch. Richardson went missing in September 2009 after she was released from the Malibu Sheriff's station; she had been detained after not paying a restaurant bill. more ›

Officials from the coroner's office have confirmed that 42-year-old Miralda Espinoza of Maywood "died of asphyxia and neck compression," reports CBS2. Her dismembered body was left stored in the freezer in the apartment she shared with her son, 19-year-old Moises Meraz-Espinoza. The body parts had been left there for about a week. more ›

The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner's office has released information about the identity of the snowboarder who crashed and died at Mountain High Dec. 27th, according to the Press-Enterprise. The deceased is Mihail Smetanin, a citizen of Moldova who had been living in Fullerton and was a beginning snowboarder. "He was trying to keep up with some friends down an advanced run called Headwall [...] when he lost control and slid into trees." The coroner reported earlier that Smetanian had not been wearing a helmet. more ›

The 24-year-old snowboarder who crashed and died while on the hills in Wrightwood yesterday "was not wearing a helmet at the time of his fatal accident," according to the Daily News. The coroner revealed today that the Fullerton man, whose name has not yet been released, was snowboarding at the Mountain High Resort Monday with an unprotected head. more ›

Latice Sutton, the mother of CSU Fullerton student Mitrice Richardson, whose remains were found in August in Malibu Canyon after being missing for several months, is calling for the FBI to look at how the sheriff's deputies handled her daughter's case, according to the Daily News. Sutton is also pushing to have her daughter's body exhumed. more ›

Since their mid-August discovery, investigators have been working to piece together what happened to the two infants whose skeletons were stowed in a steamer trunk left in the basement of a Westlake apartment building for nearly 70 years. more ›

An autopsy is scheduled for today for Sally Menke, the 56-year-old award-winning film editor who died while hiking Monday on rugged terrain in Griffith Park. Menke's body was found north of the 5500 block of Green Oak Drive, with her "loyal Labrador retriever" at her side, the LAPD explain in an emailed release. more ›

Police today identified a 50-year-old man as the deceased person discovered inside a burning car under the 101 Freeway last week. But until the coroner's office receives the final toxicology report, the final cause of death for Russell Rathert of Van Nuys is listed as undetermined. more ›

15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez died of an ecstasy overdose, came the official ruling from the Los Angeles County coroner's office yesterday, according to the AP. The teenager had been at the Electric Daisy Carnival during the last weekend in June this summer when she collapsed amidst the crowd. When she fell, Rodriguez hit her head, and while her friends tried to shield her from being trampled, the crowd overwhelmed them. more ›

Items inside a trunk stashed in the basement of the Glen-Donald apartment building in the Westlake area are just some of the clues authorities are using to investigate the case of the two infant skeletons found Tuesday, reports LA Now. more ›

The families of three missing persons are anxiously awaiting word if the human remains found inside Malibu Canyon yesterday afternoon belong to their loved ones. The L.A. Coroner's office has yet to complete the autopsy, though LA Now is reporting that a source within law enforcement has indicated the remains are female. more ›