The Oscars will rue the day it deprived Diane Warren of her Oscar. The songwriter responsible for nine number-one hits, ...

A former Los Angeles police officer who wrote "The Onion Fields," Joseph Wambaugh tried to "put people in the cops' skin" in ...

Joseph Wambaugh, a former police officer who became an acclaimed bestselling author, introducing audiences to the gritty, stark realities faced by fellow street cops, died Friday. He was 88. The ...

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