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Muhammed Ali overcame 8-1 odds to defeat Sonny Liston in 1964. But the long-suffering boxer couldn’t overcome the odds stacked against him in a Phoenix hospital room last month.

SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Donald Trump rally on Friday, chanting “f**k Donald Trump” and holding obscene signs — including one that included a death threat against Trump should he win the presidency in November.

A construction worker at the Wilshire Grand Center tower in downtown Los Angeles died Thursday afternoon after falling from the 53rd floor of the building that, when completed, will be the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.

Energy entrepreneur and Oklahoma City Thunder part owner Aubrey McClendon died on Wednesday in a single-car wreck.

After one of the most violent years in its history, only 12 days into the new year, already over 130 people have been shot in the Windy City. Twenty of those have died. Despite the freezing temperatures, during the second

Distracted walking while using an electronic device lead one man to a deadly 60-foot fall off a San Diego cliff on Christmas Day

An unidentified California woman drove her dead 82-year-old husband cross-country overnight in the couple’s RV, arriving in San Diego on Monday.

A Bible found floating in a New Orleans canal led to the discovery of the body of a missing man, authorities say.

Officials report that a 19-year-old man was killed during his first day on the job after being pulled into a wood chipper.

A Chicago woman, who already had a record of child abuse, was arrested and charged with beating her 2-year-old daughter so badly that the girl later died. Police say the mother was upset that the child would not eat her noodles.

Two days after the horrendous jihadist attacks in Paris, Pope Francis preached about the “end times,” encouraging his hearers to be vigilant and ready at any moment to meet God face to face. In his Angelus message Sunday, the Pope invited

Monday night, Tommy Hanson, 29, the hard-throwing 6-6, 220-pound hurler who played for the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Angels, died from catastrophic organ failure. Hanson passed away at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, according to a Braves representative.

One cannot hope for a love of any artistic tradition reflecting the essential aspects of a culture while ignoring the parasites who consume the internal organs of that culture.

The total level of Chicago violence year to date has reached 2,447 total shot with 416 total homicides (all causes included).

Three corrections officers were arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of murder after a mentally ill inmate at Santa Clara County Main Jail was found dead in his cell on August 27.

Parents of an illegal alien that died while attempting to enter the United States illegally on a panga boat off the southern California coastline are suing three agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

One of 20 suspected illegal aliens died Thursday when a boat believed to be smuggling the group collided with a U.S. Border Patrol vessel off the coast of north San Diego County.

Vincent Bugliosi, 80, who prosecuted mass murderer Charles Manson and his female adherents for the savage murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other people on August 8-9, 1969, died of cancer in Los Angeles Saturday night.

A 5-year-old Chicago boy from the city’s South Side was mauled to death Monday by a pit bull, which residents said repeatedly attacked the child even as they tried to intervene.

In his morning Mass Tuesday, Pope Francis pondered the many “goodbyes” in our lives and drew attention to persecuted Christians throughout the world, reminding his hearers that each “farewell” could be our last.

On Tuesday, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg finally made a public appearance, four days after the mysterious death of her husband David Goldberg in Mexico.

On Thursday night, Baltimore police labeled “suspicious” the death of a 51-year-old man who was discovered in the cab of a tractor trailer near the CVS looted and burned in Baltimore Monday night, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Andrew Getty, the 47-year-old grandson of late businessman and oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, died Tuesday in his Los Angeles home, according to a statement from his family. KTLA reports Getty’s ex-girlfriend, 32-year-old Lanessa De Jonge, placed a 911 call at around 2 p.m. Tuesday after finding him on the floor of his Hollywood Hills mansion.

The news for the left-wing affirmative action program that is bundled television (cable and satellite) just got worse. According to Nielsen, live viewership of television is dropping while subscribers to streaming television continues to explode. Moreover, cable providers appear ready

Berkeley #BlackLivesMatter protesters who occupied downtown Berkeley last month reportedly caused a 30-minute delay in the time it took for paramedics to reach a collapsed 62-year-old man who was having trouble breathing. Henry Alvin Jones later died.

Two separate alcohol-related incidents resulted in the premature deaths of two college students who passed away after excessive drinking near UC Berkeley.