Indio

INDIO, Calif. - A self-professed hitman-turned-preacher who was charged last year in the mysterious 1981 murders of a California tribal leader and two others was ordered released from custody Thursday after state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against him.

INDIO, Calif. - A man who California prosecutors said calls himself a "witch" and a "true demon" has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a shooting that took place last November on Friday the 13th.

INDIO, Calif. - In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.