Two parents won't be prosecuted for alleged underage drinking at a party held in their Menlo Park home on Nov. 25, the San Mateo ... attorney, Jeffrey Hayden, was immediately available for comment. As of January 2011, "social host" laws in California ...

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors yesterday voted unanimously ... Micaela Davis, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, called the new jail a "costly unavoidable mistake." "Building a new jail is not the ...

A 79-year-old bookkeeper has been sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling about $300,000 from the California charity where she worked for more than 23 years. The North County Times ( http://bit.ly/KbUjXq) reports Judy Gordon was sentenced ...

Several recent prison reform proposals offer hope that California might finally be on its way to fixing what many on the left and right have long agreed is a broken system. The proposals are in their early stages but deserve careful attention. Most ...

In recent documents filed in a civil case in California, defense lawyers ... have done that would warrant any kind of a charge,” Kramer said in a phone interview Wednesday. R. Scott Rhinehart, a defense lawyer based in Sioux City, said in a May 11 ...

These are dark days for California's budget-battered courts ... San Mateo's presiding judge. "Our court has tried to run a prudent business." Richard Loftus, Santa Clara County's presiding judge, added that the governor is forcing courts ...

Broussard is a candidate for California’s three-strikes law, which means she faces 25 years to life in prison, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Broussard allegedly wore a construction hard hat and orange reflective vest while ...

Jerry Brown, and/or a $10 billion income tax increase sponsored by activist lawyer Molly Munger. The corporate tax increase ... (t)his will further erode California’s ability to attract and compete with other states for business investment and hiring.”

He also nominated a former San Francisco school board attorney as the first Latino on the state appeals court in San Jose, and chose a Los Angeles prosecutor as California's first Muslim judge. The appointees are: -- Judy Johnson, 63 ...

In December, he pleaded no contest in San Mateo County Superior Court to a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment ... spokesman for the California Highway Patrol. As for the appropriateness of advertising a car doing doughnuts on the bridge?

San Francisco’s district attorney has charged Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey with drunken driving following his early morning arrest on the Bay Bridge last month by the California Highway Patrol. According to CHP spokesman ...

San Mateo ... Gerald Uelmen, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said the report shows little progress has been made since he was executive director of the California Commission on the Fair ...

The California Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led "Operation Middle Man," with help from the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office and San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force.

A Fremont woman accused of robbing ... Broussard is a candidate for California’s three-strikes law, which means she faces 25 years to life in prison, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Broussard allegedly wore a construction hard ...

The California Department of Justice ... state DOJ, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office and the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force on Tuesday searched six properties near East ...

Worthing was also charged with participating in a similar conspiracy in San Mateo County, California from September 2010 until ... the financial distress of others,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis A. Pozen in charge of the Department ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California man seriously hurt when he plunged off ... authorities said. A parolee was in court Thursday after police say he ransacked a Chula Vista home while a 13-year-old girl was home alone. A parolee was in court ...

The California Department of Justice, which led the 2½-year Operation Middle Men, says the drug chain originated with ... federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office and the San Mateo County ...

The California Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led "Operation Middle Man," with help from the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office and San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force.

The California Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led "Operation Middle Man," with help from the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office and San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force.

He was a deputy city attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office from 2004 to 2006 and deputy county counsel for San Mateo County ... U.S. attorney in the criminal division for the Northern District of California since 2007, although ...