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CHATSWORTH, Feb. 9 — A World War II German Army captain who emigrated to America after the war and found success as a businessman became a victim early Sunday of the recent series of powerful storms that slammed the Southland. […]

Jan. 18 – Theo Wilson, the storied consummate news reporter who thought nothing of hiring a taxi to take her 250 miles to a crime scene or of telling mass murderer Charles Manson to “shut up,” died early Friday. She […]

Jan. 10 – Patti Tate is thinking back. It’s the summer of ’69, and she’s got her hands on her sister’s stomach, feeling the baby inside kick. She was 11 years old then and her 26-year-old sister, actress Sharon Tate, […]

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 – Retired Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, who once vowed to remain on the bench until director Roman Polanski returned to the United States for sentencing on a child sex charge, has died. He was […]

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23 — Ever had an urge for a heart-to-heart talk with Charles Manson? How about some couch time with Sirhan Sirhan? An entrepreneur from San Luis Obispo has asked the state Department of Corrections to let him install […]

BRIDPORT, Vt., Dec. 17 – From her bedroom window, Blue Collins can look across Lake Champlain to see the white cloud of emissions rising from the International Paper Co. mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y. It is a sight that fills Collins […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 — Convicted murderer Charles “Tex” Watson will receive parole review every three years, rather than annually, as the former Charles Manson follower had asked, a federal court ruled. “A reprieve from the gallows with the chance […]

FRONTERA, Dec. 17 — Former Charles Manson family member Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 cult slayings of actress Sharon Tate and seven others, was denied parole Friday for the seventh time. Despite tears and expressions of remorse from Ms. […]

TYLER, Tx., Dec. 7 – A 41-year-old Lindale area man surrendered to authorities about 9:30 this morning to face a charge of attempted murder in the October shooting of a former state district judge who remains hospitalized in Dallas. William […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Dec. 10 — Parole officials denied a ninth bid for freedom from a 40-year-old inmate who has spent 17 years in prison after admitting his role in the first of a string of murders linked to Charles […]

VACAVILLE, Jan. 17 — Authorities dismissed assault charges Wednesday against a state prison inmate who allegedly splashed convicted mass killer Charles Manson with paint thinner and set him ablaze, saying the prisoner apparently acted in self-defense. Manson, 48, serving a […]

SAN QUENTIN, Jan. 5 — A reporter once called him “little Charlie Manson.” He has been called much worse. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, a prosecutor in his 1970 murder trial, describes the 5-foot-2 Manson as a “blood-thirsty […]

“I got a hat. I put my hat on. I walk out into the desert as far out as I can go. And I sit down. I don’t say, do you want to come with me? I don’t say go […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Dec. 7 – There are two B&B Enterprises in San Luis Obispo County and one of them fixes cars. The other, according to parole board testimony, is a front for a pornographic magazine. B&B Enterprises was […]

ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 3 – Charles Manson follower Sandra Good was released Monday from prison after serving nearly 10 years for conspiring to send death threats to corporate officials. Good, 41, left the Federal Correctional Center For Women here at […]

Jan. 23 – Charles Manson, hoping to be remembered for something other than brutal murders, will soon release an album of songs he’s composed while in prison. The album expresses Manson’s concern about the human condition in a style that’s […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Dec. 14 — Bobby Beausoleil, a Manson family disciple convicted of killing a musician two weeks before the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, was refused parole for the fifth time. A state parole board refused Thursday to set a […]

VACAVILLE, Sept. 25 — Mass killer Charles Manson was drenched with paint thinner and set afire today by a fellow inmate who told guards Manson had threatened him because of his religious beliefs, authorities said. Manson, serving a life sentence […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 13 – Charles “Tex” Watson, the Charles Manson disciple who led followers in the Tate-LaBianca bloodbath, 14 years ago, is a ”walking time bomb” who is still a menace to society, psychiatrists say. Watson, a born-again […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 13 — Members of a group opposed to the release of one-time Charles Manson follower Charles “Tex” Watson gathered outside a prison Wednesday to let a parole board know how they feel. “He forfeited his right […]