Ten years after passing a sweeping criminal justice reform measure, Californians are backtracking big, and kicking key ...

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University ... was convicted this year of first-degree murder with an ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says a clemency decision for convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez is on hold until Los ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will delay his decision on clemency for Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of murdering ...

In the two years before a 12-year-old was fatally shot at a National City house party, police received a few calls about the ...

Samuel Lincoln Woodward faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing 19-year-old Blaze ...

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their ...

In a shift away from progressive policies and towards law-and-order measures, California has voted to reclassify certain ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Frustrated with what they see as rampant retail crimes, voters approved Prop. 36, an initiative making ...

This was a hate crime," Blaze Bernstein’s mother, Jeanne Pepper, told the court. “Samuel Woodward ended my son’s life because ...