A man killed his sister and ex-wife, who was shot to death in front of the couple's child, then fatally turned the gun on himself, sheriff's officials said Monday. The bodies were found in the northeastern Los Angeles County cities of Palmdale and Lancaster, Los Angeles County ...

Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last year and relatively low crime. But if the community sounds reminiscent of the past, it also has some distinctly modern technology: 165 surveillance cameras that ...