Accused killer Gary Scott Holland, who plead not guilty Friday to the brutal murder of Kathleen Horan in her Russian Hill apartment, had been calling the Castro Hotel on Vallejo Street home since being paroled and leaving a half-way house on August 20. As the Examiner reports, Holland was a "high-control" parolee, having served 11 years of a 13-year sentence for the attempted murder of a Fresno woman in 1999, but parole officers may not have been performing the sort of surprise checks on his residence that they probably should have been performing. more ›

After a lengthy legal battle including a deadlocked-jury mistrial in 2007, famed record producer and hair model Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. After a long night of partying at Spector's Alhambra home known as "the Castle," Clarkson was found dead of a gunshot wound. more ›

OJ Simpson, the former football great who murdered former Dana Hills High School homecoming queen Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ronald Goldman, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today. His sentence, technically, stems from a recent Las Vegas hotel armed robbery and kidnapping. more ›