Proposition 36 won't end homelessness or crime waves. It will only refill prisons, push more people to the streets and erase ...

Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.

A judge sentenced a Northern California woman to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 ...

Lionel Rubalcava, exonerated and freed after serving 17 years in prison, has settled a federal lawsuit against the city for a ...

Support for the November ballot measure is highest in the conservative-leaning Inland Empire and lowest in the liberal San ...

A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder in a dispute over money and a romantic rivalry was found fatally wounded in his cell, corrections officials said Friday.

Murder charges against a 34-year-old Long Beach man who was out of jail on supervised release when he was accused of killing ...

The suspect, 55-year-old Scott Lowder, was immediately detained following the alleged stabbing of 36-year-old Steve Gonzalez.

Much of the Proposition 36 debate has focused on the increased penalties for shoplifting, but the drug policy changes are ...

The economic reality of the relationship may change from punisher and punished to employer and employee, conferring at least ...

A Yuba County father on Monday was sentenced to 12 years and four months in prison for making criminal threats against his ...

A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder in a dispute over money and a romantic rivalry was found fatally wounded in his cell, corrections officials said Friday.