In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.By: Amy Taxin and Gillian Flaccus|Date: Nov 22, 2009

For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found -- or if anyone was looking.By: Gillian Flaccus|Date: Oct 28, 2009

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Former Orange County sheriff Michael Carona was a sharp, inspiring leader consumed by greed, a prosecutor said yesterday as the federal corruption trial began for the lawman nicknamed "America's sheriff."By: Gillian Flaccus|Date: Oct 30, 2008

2 ex-convicts plead guilty in Calif. terror case SANTA ANA, Calif. - Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military sites, synagogues, and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to levy war against the United States.By: Gillian Flaccus|Date: Dec 15, 2007

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. - Firefighters said yesterday they were making good progress at keeping a 188,000-acre wildfire away from homes in the Illinois Valley after completing six miles of a backfire during the night.

About 17,000 residents of the valley in southwestern Oregon had been warned that they could be told to evacuate with only 30 minutes' notice, although the immediate threat had lessened slightly, fire officials said. Nearly 1,000 people left in the past week.

By: Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press|Date: Aug 4, 2002

PORTLAND, Ore. - The mystery began less than a week before Christmas, when residents of a trailer park spotted a child's body floating about two feet from shore in a coastal inlet near Waldport.

No one claimed the child, a 5-year-old with blond hair and hazel eyes, so the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department released a retouched photograph and a plea for the public's help.

By: Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press|Date: Dec 30, 2001

...that could cost upstart MGA Entertainment Inc. up to $2 billion. (AP Photo/MGA Entertainment, FILE) By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press Writer RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A federal jury has awarded Mattel Inc. $100 million in...