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At least three people have died in a series of related shootings near Los Angeles, California, police have said. On Tuesday morning, officers responded to reports of shots fired in southern Orange County. The gunman suspected of that shooting then went to Tustin, where he is believed to have been involved in three car-jackings, killing at least two of the drivers, police added.

Police in Singapore have warned men to be more careful regarding to whom they talk using webcams, reporting an alarming increase in the number of men who've been lured into nude conversations with "foreign" women, only to be blackmailed with video-chat recordings.

Police in New Jersey say they've arrested three members of the long-running "James Bond Gang" that had been targeting high-end homes in affluent neighborhoods across the tri-state for years.

Medical examiners used dental records to identify the burned body of the ex-cop blamed in the killings of four people, a San Bernardino County Sheriff's official said.

South African police Thursday arrested double amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius and said he would be charged with murder after his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed at his home earlier in the morning.

With a chase, a raging gun battle, and a blazing cabin fire, the hunt for suspect Christopher Dorner that has kept Southern California in terror for the past week may have come to an end on Tuesday.

Christopher Dorner was engaged in a shootout with federal authorities in the Big Bear area Tuesday, a law enforcement source told The Times. The shooting occurred after Dorner burglarized a home, tied up a couple and stole their car, the source said. It was not immediately clear whether Dorner was in custody.

The Jersey City man charged with shooting two men, severing their heads and hands and burying them in Atlantic County was wanted for a Sept. 20 armed robbery on Yale Avenue in which a man was shot, officials said today.

A man who attempted to rob a convenience store left empty handed after a clerk surprised him with a gun. According to charging documents, Luis Guiterrez Gonzales entered the Tesoro convenience store at 12 W. 3900 South at 11:47 a.m. Monday brandishing a knife. Gonzales demanded money from the clerk, who in turn produced a pistol, police said.

The Police Department concluded Dorner was lying when he said his training officer kicked a man during an arrest.