A California divorce attorney accused in the 2010 death of a Phoenix-area ... Fischer, of Irvine, has a law office in Garden Grove, Calif.

LOS ANGELES -- A tribal lawyer and three others have been indicted for a kickback scheme involving construction projects at a Southern California desert Indian casino. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say attorney Gary Edward Kovall ...

"You don't want to list 'lawyer.' They probably hide that one more than they ... and the distrust has deepened during the recession as California has dealt with multibillion dollar budget deficits. Recent polls show just one in five voters ...

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Authorities arrested a man Monday evening in the abduction of a Northern California teenager who has been missing ... and has been booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of murder and kidnapping, sheriff's officials said.

director of legislation for the California District Attorneys Association. The association opposes all three bills, although Salzillo said it is not opposed to helping felons get jobs and reintegrate into society after their release. Leno's bill ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing crackdown on its drug trafficking activities. Federal prosecutors in Sacramento said Tuesday that all three were once regiment commanders of Nuestra Familia in San Francisco and Merced County. The gang is based in prisons but controls the actions of street-level ...

Chief Executive magazine's most recent survey of corporate leaders finds that California ranks dead last among the states in business climate for the eighth straight year. Given that, one might think that Gov. Jerry Brown and other political ...

Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing crackdown on its drug trafficking activities.

LOS ANGELES -- Lawyers for ... as a result of these employment rules, the quality of teachers in classroom can be arbitrary. "Those statutes thus make the quality of education provided to school-age children in California a function of race ...

Lawyers trying to get James Biela off Nevada's death ... Denison, a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College in California, was home visiting friends when she was kidnapped in January 2008 while sleeping on a friend's couch at a residence across ...

LOS ANGELES Anson Cheung says the shooting deaths of two international graduate students near the University of Southern California made headlines ... saying that the school is in a high-crime residential area. It also notes that Chinese ...

LAS VEGAS -- A federal appeals court is telling an Indian tribal faction it can't block the long-fought distribution of money that Congress allocated to settle land claims in a vast area that includes California's Death Valley and most of what ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's judicial watchdog is admonishing a Merced County judge for failing to rule on cases in a timely manner and lying on salary affidavits.

MERCED The California man who surrendered to Green Bay police last year after more than 12 years on the run was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison for his role in a 1998 murder.

In California, Attorney General Kamala Harris ... She graduated from William Jessup University, a small Christian college in Rocklin, and has started an organization called Bridget's Dream, named for a friend who was a teenage trafficking ...

For more than half of California's 58 counties, that situation is compounded by prior court-ordered caps on their jail populations. Since the law took effect Oct. 1, there have been several instances of released inmates committing new offenses ...

Three leaders of a Northern California gang have been sentenced to federal prison as part of an ongoing crackdown on its drug trafficking activities.

The district attorney of a remote Northern California county is facing disbarment after ... And in the third case, Alexander is accused of talking directly with a criminal defendant about the case, even though he knew she had an attorney.

A Southern California woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday ... She pleaded guilty to grand theft in 1996 and was sentenced to a year in jail, but the murder case went cold. Investigators long suspected Packard and Naposki, however ...