The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday and called the Democratic former governor “a very fine person” who “was set up by a lot of bad people.” ...

Years ago when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information: If I were taken ...

An 80-year-old San Luis Obispo County man who sexually abused multiple children at his wife’s unlicensed daycare received a ...

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center near Otay Mesa allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” on Sunday evening, state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera, who ...

A pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and militia member from Kentucky is going back to prison to serve out his term for separate ...

The hostages, who were made to give public speeches thanking the Hamas militants who had held them captive, looked frail and ...

Hamas militants released three frail and abused Israel hostages in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners, some also ...

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

The brothers who gunned down their parents in 1989 have a few glimmers of hope in what has become a protracted process to see ...

Former NFL star Dana Stubblefield was released from prison more than four years after being convicted of rape. The conviction ...

Former San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield will be a free man after a Santa Clara County appeals court that overturned ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...