In a flash, 3 families gone
A California family lost two sisters, their husbands and their five children in a fiery plane crash that left investigators poking through wreckage in a Montana cemetery Monday and warning...
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Arrest warrant prepared in 2001 Chandra Levy case
Police believe they have finally solved the slaying of congressional intern Chandra Levy, nearly eight years after her disappearance transfixed Washington and much of the nation and ended the political...
Brown targets gay marriage ban
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate the voter-approved ban on gay marriage, declaring that "the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish...
California to net suspects by kin’s DNA
California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try to identify elusive criminals through their relatives. Using what is known...
Defense decision to attack mom paid off
Eight months ago, defense lawyer Thomas Mesereau made a strategic move that may have provided the key to Michael Jackson's court victory: He hired a private investigator and told him...
Judge finds Calif. same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
SAN FRANCISCO - Gays and lesbians have a right to marry under the California Constitution, a state judge here ruled yesterday, striking down state laws that limit marriage to "a...
Judge gives split decision
Who says there are no ties in baseball? A judge Wednesday ruled Barry Bonds' record-setting 73rd home run ball belongs to both fans who battled for the hunk of sports...
UC Berkeley official resigns
The dean of the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall, one of the nation's top law schools, said Wednesday that he would resign from the university because of a sexual...
Pledge ruling faces formidable foes
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, California Gov. Gray Davis and leaders of a Northern California school district said Thursday that they planned to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...