Judge Lianne M. Dumas denied a motion to reduce the felony charge to a misdemeanor, despite arguments highlighting the nonviolent nature of the accused's past criminal history, and held the accused to ...

Orange County has agreed to pay $925,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by a deputy district ...

Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, a Skokie woman born in Illinois, was wrongfully detained at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, along ...

A judge in Kansas rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to block the enforcement of SB 244, a state law that ...

The Solano County Sheriff's Department has been criticized for its lack of transparency and accountability after removing a previously criticized online complaint process for reporting officer ...

The United States is a failing state, as evidenced by its declining political stability, rule of law, security apparatus, human rights, economy, violence, and public health, all of which are ...

Carmen Mejia was exonerated after 22 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, when new evidence established that the death of a 10-month-old infant in her care was a tragic accident caused by ...

The Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into an anti-Black hate crime targeting a University of California, Irvine student, who was ...

Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-year-old man who was on death row for ...

California is facing a bottleneck in affordable housing production due to a lack of funding, leaving 39,880 units stuck in ...

Two years after passing by a slim margin, California's Proposition 1 has exceeded its goals, expanding treatment capacity and ...