A man running naked through a Lakewood neighborhood died after sheriff’s deputies shocked him with a Taser gun, authorities said. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Art Spencer said that deputies found a “very large” man running naked in the street and acting irrationally. Deputies tried to calm the man but he remained belligerent. When he
A man accused of scaring an elderly woman to death after breaking into her home following an attempted holdup at a credit union pleaded not guilty to federal charges in the case. Prosecutors argued that Larry Whitfield, 20, scared to death Mary Parnell, 79, during a home invasion in which she died of a heart attack.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — A deckhand on a charter boat full of schoolchildren choked to death on a bait fish he had put in his mouth as a joke. Capt. Dan Salas of the 55-foot Gail Force said Tuesday his employee Jeff Twaddle died last week off Long Beach in front of about 20 elementary school
A 17-year-old boy was seen tagging graffiti on the center divider of the Pomona Freeway in Riverside early Saturday just before he was struck by vehicles and killed. The boy was standing in the westbound carpool lane when he was hit by a car and thrown over a 5-foot-tall concrete divider into eastbound lanes, where
Sudden Death: Nursing Home!
CARTHAGE— A lone gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home and started “shooting everything,” barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage without explanation while killing seven residents and a nurse caring for them. Robert Stewart, 45, of Moore county, has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder.