Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...

Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...

SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...

Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...

The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...

One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...

SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...

SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...

Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...

SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...

Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...

The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...

The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...

WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...

As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...

DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...

APPLE VALLEY - You might not think that a High Desert community with a distinctly rural atmosphere would have problems dealing...

In pushing for the enactment of a one-day, one-trial jury service system in Los Angeles County under a new state law, District...

A medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and defendant of federal drug charges sued California Attorney General Dan Lungren...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has overturned a controversial extradition order for three escaped Irish Republican A...

In response to growing criticism from child advocates and the media, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court is...

Ground Broken For Federal Court RIVERSIDE - Already home to more than half a dozen courts, Riverside will soon add a U.S. Dist...

SANTA ANA - A coalition that opposes a planned airport at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station has sued Orange County, allegi...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a win for Oakland's trailblazing legal effort to curtail prostitution and drug sales by seizing customers'...

WASHINGTON - With time running out on the congressional session and all eyes focused on impeachment, Congress has passed seve...

In what apparently is the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation, prosecutors announced Thursday they ...