A criminal defense attorney who once had sexual relationships with two daughters of a client was removed Thursday from a death penalty case in Bakersfield after civil rights attorneys intervened, arguing that he was unqualified.

Gary Turnbull was relieved at the request of the defendant, Juan Pablo...

Jeffrey de Hart is standing at the edge of a driveway in Downey. Not just any driveway, but the one before the ancestral home of the Carpenters. The two-story tract house, these days with several concrete deer frolicking in front, is recognizable from the photograph on the cover of the duo’s 1973...

Nestled among the stylish estates of La Quinta’s Madison Club, this empty lot has seen plenty of action over the last decade – but no actual development.

The fairway-facing property has cycled through three owners in the last seven years, including New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Now,...

A unit in Palm Spring’s Ocotillo Lodge that was once singer-actor-cowboy Gene Autry’s part-time residence has come on the market at $699,000.

The Midcentury Modern complex designed by Palmer & Krisel in 1957 was immortalized by photographer Julius Shulman the next year in multiple published photographs...

Television writer-producer Brenda Hampton, whose credits include “7th Heaven” and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” has sold her longtime home in the Toluca Lake neighborhood for $4.445 million.

She bought the estate from actor Denzel Washington in 2000 for $1.9 million, public records...

In Maryland, Patrick Ewing’s former home is looking to court a buyer once more. After hitting the market three of the last four years, the mansion is back up for grabs at $4.2 million.

Ewing, a Hall of Famer, bought the home newly built in 1988 and sold it 12 years later in the twilight of a basketball...