Merced County has witnessed a number of notorious crimes over the past century. High-profile cases range from a pitchfork ...

Cary Stayner spent years living in the shadow of his younger brother Steven, whose childhood abduction became one of ...

It has now been five months since 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home. Authorities believe she was abducted in the early ...

Twenty-four years after a Yosemite lodge handyman was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of a Eureka mother, her daughter and a family friend from Argentina during what was supposed to be a ...

The California Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty conviction of the so-called Yosemite killer, Cary Stayner, for the murder of three women in Mariposa County 27 years ago. Stayner kidnapped ...

The California Supreme Court affirmed a judgment of conviction and penalty. The court held that defendant's statement that he preferred not to talk "now" was not an unambiguous invocation of Miranda ...

California’s highest court on May 1 denied Cary Stayner’s death penalty appeal in the notorious serial murder case that made national headlines. Stayner, a Merced native, was convicted for murdering ...

Massive fraud in Minnesota, allegedly running into the billions, has caught the attention of California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who proclaims the Golden State “the fraud capital of America.” First on his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of six months in 1999, four women and girls were murdered in and around Yosemite National Park. The FBI initially ...