LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Film star John Travolta’s vintage Mercedes-Benz, stolen from a Los Angeles suburb, has been recovered in pieces and two men have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.

Travolta’s convertible 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280-SL vanished from the street in Santa Monica while the “Pulp Fiction” star was visiting a nearby Jaguar dealership in September.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A German national pleaded innocent on Tuesday to charges stemming from a wave of fires set across Los Angeles over the New Year’s weekend in what authorities called a spasm of anti-American rage.

Harry Burkhart, 24, entered not guilty pleas to 100 counts of arson and related charges during a brief hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court and was ordered held on $7.5 million bail.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A German national accused of setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year’s weekend out of what investigators described as anti-American rage will be charged on Tuesday with another 63 criminal counts, prosecutors said.

Harry Burkhart already faces 37 counts of arson in connection with the three-day wave of fires that caused an estimated $3 million in damage and left residents of Los Angeles and surrounding communities on edge.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man whose severed head, hands and feet were found in the hills below the famed Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles was identified by the coroner’s office on Friday as 66-year-old Hervey Coronado Medellin.

A mother and daughter who were walking dogs in a popular hiking area stumbled upon the Los Angeles resident’s severed head earlier this week, and a search nearby later turned up hands and feet.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Authorities have identified the man whose severed head, hands and feet were found in the hills below the famed Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles, but declined to release his name on Friday as homicide detectives questioned witnesses in the bizarre case.

Two women walking dogs stumbled upon the decapitated head in Griffith Park earlier this week, and a search later turned up the hands and feet, which Los Angeles police said came from the same person.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police combed the hills below the famed Hollywood sign for more human body parts on Thursday as the mystery deepened surrounding the discovery there of a severed human head, feet and hands.

Authorities believe the decapitated head and other body parts came from the same victim.

By Dan Whitcomb

(Reuters) – Top Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, seen as an early Olympic gold medal favorite ahead of the 2014 games, died on Thursday from injuries sustained in a training accident in Utah last week, a family spokeswoman said.

Considered one of the leading half-pipe athletes in the world, the 29-year-old was airlifted to Salt Lake City last Tuesday after falling during a half-pipe run in Park City, Utah.

Jan 19 (Reuters) – World-class Canadian freestyle
skier Sarah Burke died on Thursday from injuries she sustained
in a training accident in Utah last week, a family spokeswoman
said.

Considered one of the leading half-pipe athletes in the
world, Burke was among the early favorites to win the Olympic
gold medal in her sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police combed the hills below the famed Hollywood sign for more human body parts on Thursday as the mystery surrounding the discovery of a severed human head, feet and hands there deepened.

Authorities believe the decapitated head and other body parts came from the same body. The parts were found separately this week in the same general area of the 4,200-acre Griffith Park, near hiking trails and not far from the Griffith Observatory.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Detectives investigating a severed human head found in the hills below the famed Hollywood sign discovered hands and feet they believe are from the same body on Wednesday, a Los Angeles police spokesman said.

The body parts were uncovered during a search of the 4,200-acre Griffith Park, where two female hikers came across the head in a plastic bag on Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said.