The former business partner of a man whose remains were found with his wife's and two children's in the high desert north of Los Angeles pleaded not guilty to murder charges Wednesday afternoon, more ...

After a lengthy, drawn-out day in court, the man who was set to be sentenced for the mysterious killings of a Southern California family didn't learn his fate after all. Instead, he is due back in ...

In January 2020, Charles “Chase” Merritt was sentenced to death by a San Bernardino County judge after getting convicted of murder in the bludgeoning deaths of the McStay family: Joseph, 40; wife ...

The story gripped the region. In 2010, a Fallbrook family of four just up and vanished. No apparent reason to have left. No evidence of foul play. More than three and a half years would pass until a ...

Two office buildings on the Northeast Side face foreclosure after investment company Chase Merritt defaulted on an $89.5 million loan it used to buy 900,000 square feet of local office space about a ...

After frustrating delays in proceedings in a Southern California courtroom last week, an emotional sentencing hearing resumed Tuesday for the man convicted in the mysterious killings of the McStay ...