A man's body was discovered in the driveway of a home near the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. The home is located in the 6900 block of Oporto Drive, and the body was found shortly before midnight. more ›

Police are currently investigating the death of an 11-month-old infant from Studio City. The infant experienced breathing distress at a licensed daycare facility in Burbank on Wednesday. more ›

Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Mike Kelley was found dead in his South Pasadena home Tuesday. He was 57. His death remains under investigation, but Blouin ArtInfo says Kelley died of an "apparent suicide." more ›

The man who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend and her mother to death and wounded a male roommate in a shared Torrance condominium Sunday night is scheduled to be arraigned today. more ›

The woman who was shot and killed at a Hollywood Thai restaurant Friday night was identified Monday by the coroner's office. Jitrujee Buatet, 44, was shot once and pronounced dead at a local hospital. more ›

A man died this morning at Gillespie Field in El Cajon after attempting to hand-crank a Piper Cherokee, a light aircraft designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use. During his attempt, the man was struck in the head by an airplane propeller around 8:30am. more ›

A homicide investigation was underway this morning after a man allegedly stabbed two women to death and injured a man in a shared condominium in Torrance. Deputies received a call at 8:23pm on Sunday and responded to the scene of the murders: a complex in the 21800 block of South Vermont Avenue near Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. more ›

Caitlin Doughty believes her fascination with death started when she was a little girl and she witnessed a girl fatally fall from the balcony of a local mall. She went on to get a degree in mortuary science and start a delightful (no, really!) web series about death. more ›

The boyfriend of a woman found beaten to death inside the couple's Simi Valley home has been arrested as detectives investigate the murder. Neighbors told reporters the 16-year-old daughter ran screaming from the house at the time of the incident. more ›

Want to hike to the top of the Half Dome in Yosemite? It might be tougher to get a permit this summer than last. The National Park is considering creating a new lottery system that will weed out scalpers and lower the number of permits that it gives out. more ›

Texting on a cellphone while driving can be fatal, but so can a lack of sleep. An apparently fatigued man fell asleep at the wheel this morning, crashing his car and killing his wife. more ›

Police have identified the murder suspect responsible for the shooting death of 17-year-old El Camino Real High School star soccer goalie Francisco Javier Rodriguez Jr. as a red-haired Latina female. more ›

Three people died after a speeding Chevy Tahoe flipped over in Paramount, CA this morning, reports City News Service. The car was driving down Downey Avenue and when it tried to turn west onto Somerset Ranch Road, it hit a curb, a light pole and a fire hydrant, rolled over and burst into flames. more ›

Authorities are searching for three men involved in the Monday night shooting death of a 24-year-old man in Sun Valley. A Good Samaritan, the victim died in an attempt to rescue his grandfather during a mugging. more ›

Police are searching for three robbers who mugged a 60-year-old man and fatally shot his grandson in Sun Valley Monday night. After hearing yells for help around 6:45pm, Danilo Estuardo Morales, 24, rushed from his home in the 8100 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue in an attempt to rescue his grandfather during a mugging in the home's driveway. more ›

Surfers and swimmers, beware. A high-surf advisory is in effect in Southern California through Saturday, and one fatality has already been reported. A dangerous riptide took the life of a 26-year-old swimmer on Monday. more ›

A fatal accident occurred on the 60 Freeway on Sunday night when a 12-year-old darted across the westbound side of the roadway. Eunice Flores of Riverside was attempting to retrieve clothing that had fallen from a suitcase strapped to a car roof when a white Mercedes struck her. more ›

A publicist handling the forthcoming film co-written and produced by John Atterberry, the music executive who was fatally shot during the December 9 Hollywood shooting rampage, died while en route to the music executive's funeral on Wednesday. more ›

On December 21, 1940, celebrated American author and Hollywood scenster F. Scott Fitzgerald collapsed and died inside a West Hollywood apartment. He was 44 years old. more ›

Dry those eyes and stop listening to "Always" on repeat. Jon Bon Jovi is not dead. He's still livin' on a prayer and appears to be enjoying the holidays in his old 'hood of New Jersey. more ›

The death of Kim Jong-iI, North Korea's 69-year-old leader, has shocked many throughout the world, and residents of Los Angeles' Koreatown exhibit emotions of shock, happiness and concern. L.A.'s Korean community is "expressing joy and hope as well as worry about what the transition might hold." Reports say that the dictator's third son, Kim Jong-un, will lead the country. more ›

An SUV crashed into a Ventura County Starbucks on Tuesday night, killing one man and injuring two other patrons. The driver, Michael Cedarland of Pasadena, lost control of his vehicle and veered about 300 feet from the road and smashed into the building around 7pm. The victim, Sergio Mendez, 30, was pinned between the vehicle and the front door frame. more ›

Sheriff's Homicide detectives are investigating the Monday night shooting death of a husband and father of three in his Arcadia home. The family - including two sons, ages 3 and 5, and a 6-year-old daughter - returned to their home on the 11000 block of Kristi Court when an armed man approached them as they entered their garage. more ›

Updates surrounding the death of Kelly Ryann Dorrell, the 26-year-old woman who fell 75 feet off the Queen Mary on December 5, report that Dorrell was not arguing with her boyfriend before the incident and that she suffered blunt force trauma. more ›

The 26-year-old woman who fell 75 feet to her death off the Queen Mary on Monday night has been publicly identified as Kelly Ryann Dorrell of Long Beach. Dorrell was a Milliken High and UC Santa Barbara graduate who was working toward her teaching certificate. She hoped to become a Long Beach elementary school teacher. more ›

The body of 21-year-old Ramina Badal was discovered by a park ranger on Saturday afternoon in the Merced River. Yosemite National Park confirmed today that the body was that of the third hiker who died at the park in July. more ›

A 26-year-old woman fell 75 feet from a third-story railing on the Queen Mary in Long Beach on Monday night. She did not survive the incident. The victim plummeted into the cold water, and her companion, a 40-year-old man, dove 15 feet into the water in an attempted rescue. He was taken to a local hospital and treated for hypothermia and minor injuries. more ›

An elderly woman was stabbed to death in South L.A. today, and the suspect may be her grandson. Authorities were summoned to the 900 block of West 41st Street and transported the 89-year-old victim to a local hospital at 2:10pm. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital. more ›

SoCalians hit the slopes over the holiday weekend, and one amateur snowboarder's attempt at shredding the snow proved fatal. Angelique De Leon, a 23-year-old Riverside resident, fell on a run on Sunday at Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood. more ›

LAPD South Traffic Division detectives are searching for a driver who struck and killed a 62-year-old pedestrian on Monday morning then fled from the scene. Larry Dean Hughes, a Los Angeles resident, was walking southbound on a crosswalk on Normandie Avenue at Exposition Boulevard around 5am when a driver traveling northbound on Normandie turned right on Exposition and hit Hughes with his car. The driver did not stop and continued eastbound on Exposition. more ›