Observe staff engaging with inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison on March 6, 2025, under the California Model, a program initiated by the Newsom administration to reduce violence in maximum-security ...

An inmate is dead with two others detained during a homicide investigation at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.

Penny Weaver is an award-winning journalist who covers crime, law enforcement, court proceedings and more for the River Valley Democrat-Gazette. She has more than 30 years of experience as a ...

Grand Valley State captured its first DII women's basketball title since 2006, defeating Cal State Dom. Hills 70-58 on March 28. This is the Lakers' second title in program history. The tournament ...

A Southern California grade school teacher was sentenced to four years in prison Friday on charges that he downloaded ... Hacienda La Puente Unified School District in the San Gabriel Valley, ...

The two women, 47-year-old Tania Thomas and 62-year-old Stephanie Brinson, who also went by Stephanie Dowells, were both allegedly strangled during what the state prison system calls "family ...

Sunny with a high of 87 °F (30.6 °C) and a 49% chance of precipitation. Winds from SE to ESE at 10 to 11 mph (16.1 to 17.7 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph ...

Stephanie Diane Dowells, who also went by the name Stephanie Brinson, died in November after she went to visit her husband, 54-year-old David Brinson, behind bars at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.

Former mixed martial artist Cain Velasquez has been sentenced to five years in prison for ... was born in Salinas, raised in Yuma, Ariz., and competed for the Arizona State University wrestling ...