A father stabbed his three young sons to death in the back seat of their car outside a South Los Angeles school, US police have said.

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Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in US history, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool today. He was 47.

A former Los Angeles school teacher has been arrested after he allegedly gagged and made bondage photos of nearly two dozen children.

A STRING of murders of young black women had south Los Angeles on edge in the mid-1980s, then the killings suddenly stopped, only to resume again 14 years later.

IRISH trainer Carl O’Callaghan could be a new face at Royal Ascot in the summer after hitting the big time with his American raider Kinsale King in the Golden Shaheen at Meydan.

Irish-born trainer Carl O’Callaghan could be a new face at Royal Ascot in the summer after hitting the big time with his American raider Kinsale King in the Golden Shaheen at Meydan.

They danced in the streets, wept, lifted their voices in prayer and brought traffic to a standstill.

POLICE hope a $500,000 (€350,000) reward will help them catch a serial killer who has claimed the lives of at least 10 women and a man in a two-part string of violence spanning more than two decades.

Playtime is over for rapper The Game – he has begun serving a 60-day jail sentence for firearm possession.

US rapper The Game has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to possession of a firearm in a school zone.

One person was killed when a helicopter crashed on to a busy freeway in the US, officials said today.

US rapper The Game pleaded not guilty to three felony charges filed after authorities said he pulled a gun during a basketball game at a South Los Angeles school.

Supermarket giant Tesco plans to capitalise on the critical need for grocery stores in South Los Angeles by opening a Fresh & Easy Neighbourhood Market in the economically depressed area.

A man described by prosecutors as possibly Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killer was convicted today of murdering 10 women and one victim’s unborn child in the 1980s and 90s.

DNA evidence ties a former pizza delivery man accused of being one of Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killers to the killings of 10 women and an unborn child, a prosecutor told US jurors at the start of his trial.

DNA evidence ties a former pizza delivery man accused of being one of Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killers to the killings of 10 women and an unborn child, a prosecutor told US jurors at the start of his trial.

Folk singer Joan Baez and tree-sitter Julia “Butterfly” Hill have taken up residence in a tree to raise awareness about a 14-acre US urban farm threatened with demolition.

A Los Angeles police commander today defended the actions of officers who killed a young girl in a shoot-out with her father, one of three stand-offs in the past nine months in which officers killed suspects holding hostages.

A toddler was shot and killed when her father used her as a shield in a Los Angeles gun battle with police following an hours-long standoff.

A Los Angeles neighbourhood expressed anger and shock after a 13-year-old suspected car thief was shot dead by police following a three-and-a-half-mile chase which ended when he reversed into their patrol car.

Michael Jackson – dressed in white and accompanied by members of his family - returned to court to watch a showdown over key evidence with the prosecutor who has pursued the singer for years on child abuse charges.

Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis has been arrested in California on suspicion of drink driving.

Merlin Santana, who appeared in this year's Eddie Murphy movie Showtime, was shot to death while sitting in a parked car.