SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has agreed that Ford Motor Co. will owe California consumers $3.5 billion if found liable fo...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An Upland police officer is suing his employer and the city, alleging that the police department's internal...

Guests in North America's biggest hotel chains, from Four Seasons to Marriott, will be able to select compact disc music throu...

The 9th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that the right to Brady material cannot be waived through a p...

LOS ANGELES - Nearly three years ago, two people from opposite worlds joined forces. They had nothing in common, except each h...

LOS ANGELES - Matthew Monroe of Monroe & Shapiro decided to make public his previously confidential mentor relationship wi...

LOS ANGELES - Richard "Rick" Ross remembers his first beauty contest. It involved not babes in bathing suits but a seasoned ac...

LOS ANGELES - Appellate attorney Irving Greines sounds like the worst kind of libertine when he talks about the obsession that...

Between the Oscars and the NCAA basketball tournament, March has become the pre-eminent month for office pools around the coun...

Decked in a baby-blue tank top, form-fitting blue jeans and lips shining with an extra coat of gloss, Sarineh Abnoosi, 17, cru...

A self-proclaimed 'smart gal with a fat bank account,' Love professes that she is 'ready to take this thing all the way to the...

As the markets continue to plummet despite the Federal Reserve's efforts this week, economists and market watchers are turning...

Despite what the stock market might say, we are in the midst of a New Network Economy. So it is important to understand some o...

For 21 years, I've been an ever-more-out lesbian. For almost 10 years, I've been engaged in legal advocacy, first on behalf of...

Working in a research facility in Brea more than a decade ago, Unocal scientists Peter Jessup and Michael Croudace positioned ...

Since the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act and California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, the vast majority ...

In many states, California included, the only legal requirement for becoming a judge is the length of time spent as a lawyer. ...

When the market for public offerings closed down last year, many companies were faced with a difficult dilemma. They needed ca...

Does anyone really believe that cats can suck the breath out of babies? Or that rice tossed at the bride and groom is dangerou...

March Madness. We all know that's about basketball. May madness is different. Maybe it was something in the Los Angeles air or...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Park Service on Thursday to force the removal of a 5-foot-t...

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of immigrant rights groups Thursday called on Congress to pass legislation to aid migrants, includin...

RIVERSIDE - A judge sentenced Kim Raymond Kopatz to death Thursday for strangling his wife and 3-year-old daughter with an ele...

SAN JOSE - Retired state appeal court Justice Marc Poch, who abruptly withdrew from the Avant criminal trade secrets case Tues...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twice-convicted murderer Robert Lee Massie will not have access to his priest for the final 45 minutes before ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The East Bay judge behind the first-ever judicially mandated auto recall will be asked today for his understan...

LOS ANGELES - President Bush on Thursday ended the American Bar Association's historic and leading role rating potential nomin...

LOS ANGELES - If all goes according to plan, audiences watching Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony will not see a single l...

SAN BERNARDINO - Jane Ilknur Un spent 18 months in state prison for violating a plea agreement that an appellate court now say...

SANTA ANA - When Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas withdrew a civil complaint filed against one of his campaign ...