Humming in California court backfires on defendant who didn’t want to hear fentanyl warning
The novel legal strategy shows the lengths that defense attorneys will take to fight prosecution efforts to charge overdoses as murder.
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SCE report bolsters suspicions that Saddleridge fire ignited at electrical tower
A resident said he saw flames ignite at the foot of the tower outside his home. The fire was 41% contained on Sunday.
California police agencies holding back misconduct records despite new transparency law
A media lawyer says those stalling under SB 1421 are just wasting taxpayer money and "delaying the inevitable."
High court opens the way for release of police disciplinary records in California
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday batted aside an attempt by a San Bernardino County sheriff’s union to block the release of police disciplinary records under a new law that took...
Gov. Brown: Killer firestorms are ‘the new abnormal’
Some evacuations were to be lifted in Los Angeles County on Sunday evening.
How an empire built around urine drug tests exposes flaws in state’s rehab laws
Philip Ganong, his wife and their 34-year-old son built a fast-growing, multi-million-dollar empire on urine.They collected it from drug addicts at their chain of Southern California sober living homes. They...
Jailhouse snitches spark new California law
SACRAMENTO >> “Puppet” and “Bouncer,” a pair of jailhouse snitches who were paid $335,000 over a four-year window for working dozens of cases in Southern California, have inspired a state...
