State & Regional Obituaries
Woman shot during Santa Monica rampage dies, raising death toll to 5
A woman who was critically wounded in last week's Santa Monica shooting rampage died Sunday, bringing the total number of victims killed by the gunman to five. Marcela Franco, 26, died of her injuries at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to Santa Monica College spokeswoman Tricia Ramos. Franco had ...
Chief says Santa Monica killings were premeditated
Police investigating why a heavily armed gunman plotted a rampage that killed four people and wounded several others were focused Saturday on how the violence began: directed at his own family. What started as domestic violence led to a chaotic street shooting spree and ended less than 15 minutes later ...
2 inmates die in separate state prison incidents
< One inmate died and two others were seriously injured in a fight Monday that involved about 40 inmates at a state prison in the San Joaquin Valley, corrections officials said. It was one of two inmate deaths reported Monday in apparently unrelated incidents. A guard fired one bullet to ...
Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said ...
Father of slain 10YO girl unsure why home targeted
A devastated father said Monday he had no idea why gunmen targeted his house, firing a barrage of bullets that killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV from a chair near a picture window. With his own wounded arm in a sling, Ernesto Campos came to look for his ...
USDA: Lion cage where intern killed worked fine
The enclosures at a Central California wild animal park where a lion killed an intern were working properly at the time of her death, federal officials said. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that the agency's investigation on the day after the mauling in March found ...
Chi Cheng, former bassist for Sacramento's Deftones, dies at 42
Chi Cheng, a bassist for the Grammy-winning Sacramento band Deftones, died Saturday morning after spending years struggling to recover from major injuries he suffered in a vehicle accident in 2008. Cheng, 42, was in a coma for a while, but recently showed some signs of improvement. He was in a ...
CHP: Bus at 'unsafe' speed before Yosemite wreck
A tour bus carrying visitors from Yosemite National Park was traveling at an unsafe speed when the driver lost control and crashed on a mountain road, leaving 16 people injured, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday. The bus was about six miles outside of the south entrance of the park ...
Officer testifies in trial over Hells Angels president's murder
Police Sgt. John Gutierrez was going to move his car before getting a parking ticket when he encountered someone he thought was a routine car burglar on a dark street in San Francisco about a block from his campus police headquarters. Instead, he testified Monday, he found the subject of ...
Volunteer killed by lion at Central California animal park
A lion mauled to death a 24-year-old intern just a few weeks on the job Wednesday at an exotic animal park in the Sierra Nevada foothills of remote Central California. Authorities said the intern was attacked and killed when she entered the male African lion's enclosure at Cat Haven about ...
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