Christopher Jordan Dorner, the 33-year-old ex-LAPD officer who allegedly killed a young Los Angeles couple on Sunday in revenge for his termination from the force, is only getting started, according to a rambling manifesto, alternately terrifying and bizarre, that he posted to Facebook earlier this week.

A former LAPD officer who was fired in 2009 for allegedly making false statements about his training officer is the main suspect in three officer-involved shootings that took place overnight in Riverside and Corona.

We are not "yellow" journalists who would sensationalize stories in a way that might have a negative impact on the economic livelihood of an entire region. So we will not go out of our way to urge anyone not to visit Acapulco, Mexico. We will simply pass on this latest incident to you, as reported by the AP.

Police in San Antonio say a group of friends panicked after one of them accidentally shot another in the back, and tried to pin the whole thing on a "Hispanic male" who never existed.

The DOJ is accusing Standard and Poor's of fraud and helping to precipitate the financial crisis. Greed is bad.

Most people wouldn't consider a bond hearing to be an appropriate time to joke around.

Last Friday, not one, not two, but three members of the MacNeil family were detained after smoking aboard a Sunwing flight from Halifax to the Dominican Republic. David, 54, Donna, and David Jr, 22, were all allegedly smoking mid-flight, something that has been banned for over twenty years now.

The seven-day stand-off between a survivalist and Alabama and federal authorities has come to a close. Jimmy Lee Dykes, who kidnapped a five-year-old boy in Midland City after shooting his school bus driver last week, is dead; the boy he had kidnapped is alive.

The annual list of America's safest cities has been updated by CQ Press and the country's most crime-free metropolitan areas have something in common: you probably haven't heard of most of them! So lets get to know these very safe cities: their history, their culture, what famous people have been there and the unique laws that keep these cities safe.

A typical Changing of the Guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace yesterday morning was briefly interrupted by a man waving around two large knifes and ranting unintelligibly.

A homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker named Kai is being hailed as a hero after saving a woman from the clutches of a bear-hugging racist who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Looking to get out of going through a messy and expensive divorce, 27-year-old Stephen Perry of Carmel, Indiana, allegedly decided to ask a coworker to kill his estranged wife instead.

As part of an ongoing project, we've written letters to American death row prisoners scheduled for execution this year. We asked them about their lives in prison, their daily routines, and their thoughts on the American justice system. Today, a response from Douglas Feldman, a death row prisoner in Texas.

Police have busted a four-man crime ring in Los Angeles who had, for three years, been targeting the homes of Los Angeles Times subscribers while they were on vacation.

A manhunt is on for two people who shot a Kaufman County, Texas prosecutor outside the courthouse today.

A German resident who goes by the alias Krümel Monster (Cookie Monster) is on the run from the law after lifting a 44-pound Golden Cookie that has stood guard over the Hannover headquarters of world-famous biscuit maker Bahlsen for the past century.

A highly alarming video that surfaced online over the weekend has the entire Internet seething with rage.

Have you seen this mouse?

Brazilian authorities have arrested three people with ties to the nightclub fire that killed at least 233 people yesterday. They are one of the club's co-owners, the chief of security and a member of the band Gurizada Fandangueira, which was performing when the fire broke out. Police are also apparently searching for Kiss nightclub's other owner as well.

The police department in Milwaukee is a little short-staffed after a round of government layoffs. County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. has just released a radio ad in which he tells Milwaukee residents "I need you in the game" (the game is "being police offers").