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.

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.

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.

Pro Publica has published a database that makes it easy for you to compare your access to quality education and at what cost in an effort to provide insight into the opportunity gap demonstrated by economic difference in the classroom.

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.

There's so much sex at the Convention Center that one adult conference promoter has claimed it's being fucked over and is pulling out. Adultcon canceled two of its three shows slated for 2012 at the L.A. Convention Center.

DASH public bus riders are seeing a steep fare hike on their routes today. OK, steep only as a matter of percentage as the L.A. DOT-operated busses increase fares from 35 cents to 50 cents. But who can't scrape up a few extra nickels each day? After all, as LADOT conveniently announced on this week, commuters are more satisfied than ever with its services.

It appears Village Voice may be messing with the wrong man after mocking the Ashton Kutcher / Demi Moore-led "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" anti-teen sex trafficking campaign. In an article titled "Real Men Get Their Facts Straight," the Voice describes Kutcher as a "scruffy doofus" in one of the campaign's PSAs

With temperatures expected to reach the 90s and 100s across the region, Los Angeles firefighters are prepared for a high risk of wildfires over the celebratory Fourth of July weekend. Fireworks are illegal in L.A., the fire department reminds us but we all know that's not going to stop July 4th revelers from firing off their own.

Gregory Meyer and Richard Fox were on a four-day backpacking trip with three others when unseasonably high waters swept them into Falls Creek near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The group had successfully traversed the Wapama Falls bridge on the inbound hike but runoff from a storm that hit the mountains Tuesday led to the swollen waterfall which swept the men to their deaths early Wednesday.

An alleged immigration scammer who claimed to be the supreme commander of a non-existent army pleaded guilty to three felonies on Wednesday. 51-year-old Yupeng Deng of Temple City, also known as David Deng, was sentenced to three years in prison for theft by false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of an official government seal

Former Angels Radio pregame show host David Smith filed a lawsuit this week alleging the team fired him in 2009 for racist reasons.