There are serious battles being fought in the field of criminal law as we speak, and most of California is completely unaware of what is happening. This battle is waging especially strong in San Diego, where Wallin & Klarich attorneys
A boy who allegedly ran from police and hid in the water of the Mare Island Strait in Vallejo for more than an hour Thursday morning has been arrested on suspicion of burglarizing several vehicles and stealing another, police said.
A former drug store worker is facing up to 20 years in prison after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors over allegations he kept a young girl in a basement of a home as a sex slave.
A suspected gang member accused in the June 22 slaying of a San Francisco man and two of his sons was granted a new defense attorney Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, after his previous attorney said he had a
A suspected marijuana grower was shot dead by Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies during a pot raid in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Saratoga Thursday morning, authorities said.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to President Bush on Thursday asking him to send more firefighting help as existing crews strain to cover hundreds of California wildfires.
Allstate Corp. has been ordered to cut its California homeowner insurance rate by more than 25 percent, a move that will save consumers an estimated $255 million a year, the state insurance commissioner announced Thursday.
The pall of wildfire smoke hanging in the air from Big Sur to Butte County has been keeping the region's fierce heat just a little cooler, according to weather experts - and light winds so far hadn't cleared the smoke
Hans Reiser has obligations he must fulfill before he gets a break on his prison sentence, but the deal the convicted wife killer cut with prosecutors was in the best interests of the victim's family, the judge who presided over
On June 5, an elderly man named Jerry Kulek was evicted from his North Beach apartment for falling two months behind in the rent. He lived on the streets for three weeks before he collapsed on the sidewalk in front
One armed man was shot and killed and two other suspects escaped on foot into the brush during a raid early today on a marijuana patch in the steep hills south of Saratoga, a Santa Clara County sheriff's lieutenant said.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a Vallejo convenience store clerk during a robbery, police said today. Diovanni Whitmire, 19, was arrested about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in connection with the Feb. 8 slaying of Surinder...
