Ten years after passing a sweeping criminal justice reform measure, Californians are backtracking big, and kicking key ...

A shoplifter confronted while stealing food used an improvised flamethrower to escape, California police reported. The woman used an aerosol can and lighter to send a gout of flame toward the clerk’s ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will delay his decision on clemency for Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of murdering ...

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced ...

In the two years before a 12-year-old was fatally shot at a National City house party, police received a few calls about the ...

Samuel Lincoln Woodward faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing 19-year-old Blaze ...

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their ...

Californians took the law into their own hands this Election Day, using their collective voice to shut down the soft-on-crime ...

Here are some of the key measures voters were asked to consider: ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Frustrated with what they see as rampant retail crimes, voters approved Prop. 36, an initiative making ...