Andy Sternberg

70-year-old Joseph Robert Brancato was charged with murder in Pasadena Superior Court on Friday. He was arrested early Tuesday morning at his home after police found his 65-year-old wife Marie bleeding profusely from the back of her head, according to the Burbank Leader.

Marijuana has no therapeutic value and must remain classified as a dangerous drug along the same lines as heroin, MDMA, and PCP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ruled on Friday.

Jaycee Dugard never knew that she was in labor when she had the first of her two daughters at age 13. The South Lake Tahoe woman was abducted on the way to school in 1991 at age 11 and lived for 18 years in the backyard of Philip and Nancy Garrido in Contra Costa County.

A man who masqueraded as a member of the Rockefeller family appeared in court on Friday on charges of murdering his landlady's son and burying the body under his San Marino residence decades ago.

57-year-old Brian Matayoshi and his wife Marilyn were hiking on the Wapiti Lake Trail when they encountered a female grizzly bear with cubs, according to ABC7. The couple saw the bear twice but continued hiking. Upon the third encounter, the bear charged the man.

You've seen the "It all ends here" billboards around L.A. -- Deathly Hallows 2, the final installment of the Potter saga premieres July 15th in the states. Interviews with stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and author JK Rowling from today's YouTube-cast red carpet extravaganza are served up below for your video lunch.

Strong sales of new releases from the top ladies in song and multiple reissues of classic albums made the first half of 2011 the best 6 months for album sales since 2004, according to Nielsen-Soundscan.

A man was struck and killed by a Metrolink train in Riverside Thursday morning. The man was struck around 5:30 a.m. about 2 miles west of the Downtown Riverside station, on a stretch of track where trains travel at speeds up to 60 miles per hour, according to Metrolink.

Three former Diamond Bar PTA members were charged on Tuesday with allegedly operating a scheme that defrauded their victims out of millions of dollars. More than 40 investors were victimized, some losing their life savings via the womens' ponzi scheme.

If you took an early lunch and flipped on KTLA, you watched as rescue workers saved two dogs wandering about a precipice in the Malibu hills.