A new California law imposes harsher penalties for assaulting emergency room workers. It responds to rising attacks on health ...

Two Bay Area cousins have been sentenced to a combined 985 years in state prison for sexually abusing four young girls for ...

But in prison she has had to fight long and hard for access to a doctor. Relatives said that officials repeatedly blocked treatment because she refused to wear a headscarf to a medical appointment.

The parents of a man who was serving a life sentence for murder when he was stabbed to death at North Kern State Prison have ...

A suspected gang member was sentenced to 31 years and four months in prison Tuesday after being convicted of a shooting that ...

Senate Bill 399 prohibits employers from penalizing an employee for refusing to attend a meeting related to their political ...

There was growing outrage after officers beat a handcuffed inmate who later died. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the system ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

California’s southern border, "ground zero" in the fight between federal and local officials over immigration policy, is now ...

Four months after his death, the widow of Matthew Gaudreau announced the birth of their first child. Gaudreau, 29, and his NHL star brother Johnny Gaudreau, 31, were killed after being struck by a ...