Bestselling crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh, who mined his own experience as a Los Angeles police officer, has died at 88.

Joseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and flawed detectives trapped in a ...

The victim was surrounded by a group of 20 to 30 young bicyclists and “immediately overwhelmed” as they punched and kicked ...