A former polygamous sect leader was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for his role in carrying out an elaborate food stamp fraud scheme and for escaping home confinement while awaiting trial.
Read moreSan Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, a former civil rights lawyer and the city’s first Chinese-American mayor, died unexpectedly of a heart attack early Tuesday morning. He was 65.
Read moreIn a three-hour long hearing Monday morning, a federal judge proclaimed that, “this was no run-of-the-mill murder” before sentencing a male escort to life in prison for stabbing his wealthy boyfriend to death.
Read moreOrange County, California, prosecutors have settled a lawsuit with two medical companies accused of illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday ruled against three hurricane-damaged Texas churches seeking disaster-relief aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, finding the congregations unlikely to prove a ban on aid to churches is unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday sentenced a white former North Charleston, S.C. police officer to 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed black motorist during a 2015 traffic stop.
Read moreAttorneys for a white former North Charleston police officer who shot and killed a black motorist during a routine traffic stop in 2015 are expected to wrap up their defense Wednesday morning, believing they’ve successfully shown their client, Michael Slager, committed manslaughter, not murder, when he shot Walter Scott to death.
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The race for mayor in Atlanta early Wednesday was too close to call, with one candidate declaring herself the city’s new leader and the other vowing to request a recount.
Read moreA District of Columbia man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for the brutal murder of his elderly mother last summer in the home they shared.
Read moreThe communications director for former Kentucky House Speaker Jeff Hoover claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was effectively fired after disclosing a secret settlement between Hoover and a sexual harassment accuser paid for with campaign donor money.
Read moreA disgraced former Oklahoma state senator pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal child sex trafficking charge, admitting that he solicited a teenage boy to have sex at a hotel.
Read moreSan Francisco leaders have overcome deep divisions about how to regulate legal recreational marijuana in the densely packed city, approving pot-friendly rules that could allow sales to start the first week of January.
Read moreA young Silicon Valley couple vowed to sue San Francisco Tuesday night after the Board of Supervisors voided their purchase of a private street and returned it to wealthy homeowners.
Read moreA $241.8 million transfer from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to a city fund has a watchdog group seeing red, and on Tuesday called the action a theft from LA’s electric utility ratepayers.
Read moreCalifornia Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra resigned Monday following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, making him the first lawmaker to leave office amid a spate of harassment reports that has rocked the state Capitol.
Read moreThe ACLU sued the Phoenix Police Department Tuesday for records of an Aug. 22 protest of against President Donald Trump that descended into when police used force and fired pepper-spray to disperse the crowd of several hundred people.
Read moreA proposed multimillion dollar terminal that would transfer train cars full of crude oil onto ships, then down the Columbia River and out to sea could unleash “significant, unavoidable” harm on the rich habitat of the national scenic area and its inhabitants, a government team found.
Read moreA federal judge declined Monday to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit against Koch Foods, Tyson, Perdue and others claiming the chicken producers have conspired for years to drive up the price of chicken nearly 50 percent.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday unsealed the indictment of 11 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang on charges ranging from murder, racketeering, conspiracy and a bevy of other related crimes.
Read moreA germ of an idea that turned into the popular “The Game of Life” board game has taken center stage in a federal courtroom, in the trial of a lawsuit brought by a toy inventor’s widow who says her husband is the sole copyright owner.
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