Melody Gutierrez is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered state government and politics for The Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee.

The world of country music is reeling after Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James, 57, was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina alongside his wife, Melody Carole Wilson, 59, and her daughter, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Linn County jury has found Dakota Van Patten guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Melody Hoffman of Marion. 19-year-old Van Patten was found guilty of ...

Tom Selleck doesn’t get nervous much. But when the actor spotted Al Kaline coming toward him in the spring of 1991, his stomach began knotting up. “And as I was looking at him, I noticed the players ...

Since September 19, 2025, the people of Assam, cutting across divisions of age, caste, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion, have taken to the streets in an extraordinary expression of collective ...

The notorious 1991 yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas, have finally been solved. DNA evidence has identified Robert Eugene Brashers, a deceased serial killer, as the perpetrator. Brashers, who died ...

Dakota Van Patten reacts as the verdict of guilty is read for the charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit a forcible felony at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- DNA evidence has helped to identify a man who died decades ago as a new suspect in the 1991 killing of four teenage girls, after authorities linked him to multiple killings in other ...

Opening our list of the three most iconic simultaneous album releases is Nirvana’s second studio album, Nevermind. Of the three albums the band released before Kurt Cobain’s tragic death in 1994, the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin Police Department cold case detective and its forensic science director showed how law enforcement agencies were able to break through on one of the city’s most infamous cold ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant ...