The widow of a retired California Highway Patrol officer is suing a Sacramento developer over the Granite Bay crash that killed her husband, a lawyer for the plaintiff announced. A ...

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves ...

A Los Angeles police officer who killed a mentally ill man last year in Koreatown employed questionable tactics but was ...

Bashant of Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn examines characteristics of medical battery cases in California and reforms health-care providers can consider to avoid such scenarios.

May 29, 1979 - US District Judge John Wood is killed by a contract killer allegedly tied to a drug-smuggling case the judge is handling. Three members of the Chagra family are later convicted of ...

One of the three leaders of the Guadalajara cartel linked to the torture-slaying of Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985 has been released in Mexico, according to ...

The goal of confidentiality laws is to protect justice-involved youth later in life — but advocates question whether the laws ...

University of Limerick researchers have claimed that long prison sentences are as effective as the death penalty when it ...

According to the research – which closely examined the Australian legal system and its history with capital punishment – the ...

Victor Gomes bought a Glock 17 semiautomatic pistol from a licensed gun store in the Central Valley city of Hanford in May ...