[KHTS] – Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to a report of a suspicious death on the 31900 block of Emerald Lane in Castaic Friday morning, officials said. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau detectives are en route, according to Sheriff’s...

[KHTS – Jessica Boyer] The man who was found with his throat slit in Valencia on Thursday has been identified, although officials are withholding the victim’s name until the next of kin has been notified. Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to a report of a man...

[KHTS] Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies responded Thursday to a report of a man found with his throat slashed in a warehouse bathroom at the Valencia Industrial Center around 11:25 a.m., officials said Thursday. The man was found alive inside the restroom of a business in the 24900 block...

Detectives from the Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau responded to San Francisquito Canyon Road, five miles south of Spunky Canyon Road, in the Angeles National Forest, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the discovery of dead body. “At approximately 4:45 this afternoon, Department...

Eric Allen Earle The live-in boyfriend of murder victim Karla Barda has been rearrested on suspicion of causing her death and is expected to be charged with one count of murder. Eric Allen Earle, 40, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Northridge by a surveillance team of federal marshals and was booked...

California’s homicide rate dropped 7.8 percent in 2010 versus 2009, and the percentage of “solved” homicide cases increased to 63.8 percent, according to a report released Friday by Attorney General Kamala Harris. It was the fifth consecutive year the solved-homicide rate improved, and the...

A cold case just went even colder – but one Los Angeles County homicide investigator is hoping it will heat up again. Sgt. Brian Schoonmaker of the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau said Tuesday night that a new study of DNA evidence has cleared the prime suspects in a 33-year-old Acton murder case. Analysts...

Home of Lennie Paul Tracey in the early hours of Sept. 24. Lennie Paul Tracey was formally charged with murder Tuesday in the shooting death of his next-door neighbor. Tracey, 51, of Calpyso Lane in Canyon Country, appeared Tuesday afternoon in San Fernando Superior Court. He did not enter a plea. His...

A Canyon Country man was shot and killed early Saturday in an argument with his next-door neighbor, sheriff’s deputies said. Detectives determined the victim walked over to his neighbor’s house in the 27900 block of Calypso Lane at 3 a.m. to pursue an ongoing dispute.  An argument ensued...

An August double murder-suicide in the Valencia Bridgeport community skewed the year-to-date homicide rate for a valley that typically sees less than a handful of murders all year. But the Santa Clarita Valley’s overall reports of serious and violent crimes fell 15.81 percent through August, compared...