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John Combe, the infamous 'Sky's The Limit' Home Town contestant, died at age 70. One of the most colorful and memorable people ever crossing paths with Erin and Ben Napier died sadly. Unfortunately, the Home Town John Combe episode now doubles as a farewell to 70-year-old John, who moved to Laurel after spending a decade in Belize and a lifetime globetrotting before.

Like something out of "Macbeth," the murder of a woman in Inland Empire reveals a power struggle among members of the Mexican Mafia. In the parking lot of Gaby's Cafe, a hole-in-the-wall Mexican eatery in San Bernardino, a woman's body lay exposed to the rain.

Teens were sentenced to probation after a deadly schoolyard assault. Two juveniles will be given probation and released back into their parents' custody after repeatedly beating a 13-year-old student to death.

The triggerman in a birthday bar shooting in New York City has been apprehended. A gunman who shot and killed a Bronx father celebrating his birthday at a popular Washington Heights nightclub has been apprehended, police said Friday.

Arrest in a Brooklyn homicide provides consolation to a family ravaged by gang slayings. A Brooklyn family that has seen three sons murdered and a fourth imprisoned received a glimmer of hope over the weekend with the arrest of a man suspected of murdering one of their relatives on his 24th birthday.