LOS ANGELES - Sixteen-year-old Adrian R. hangs around the wrong crowd in the wrong places, according to prosecutors. Possessin...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Henry S. Rose, Los Angeles attorney and international trade specialist. Rose ...

SEATTLE - One year ago today, an Algerian-born man with a trunk full of explosives and a motel reservation near the Seattle Ce...

The U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow for literacy Tuesday night. As television correspondents, wire services and commentators ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco public defenders are trained to battle opponents in the courtroom, but the Tuesday election vic...

WASHINGTON - In his biting dissent from Tuesday's election-ending Supreme Court ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "Alth...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County prosecutor reached a $480,000 deal to end a six-year legal battle she waged for being demot...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is home to yet another newspaper controversy. The inaugural edition of "California DUI News," ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Esten's job is to talk juries out of sentencing killers to death. He likes to show them a photograph of a ...

Florida voters aren't as inept as some people think, according to Southwestern University School of Law professor Ira Shafirof...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision late Tuesday blocking a recount of Florida votes for president, and effectively ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco litigation firm Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold recently elected five new partners for 2001 a...

European politicians and intellectuals recently gathered in Paris under the aegis of the Group Against the Death Penalty in th...

Less than nine months after opening a new building in San Diego, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has signed...

SAN JOSE - All applicants to county-certified drug and alcohol recovery homes will be required to submit to criminal backgroun...

SANTA ANA - A consumer watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the maker of a bracelet that's supposed to improve the weare...

SAN DIEGO - During its annual holiday party Thursday night at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines starting at 6 p.m., the San Die...

In a major victory for current owners of property forced to pay environmental cleanup costs of contamination they did not caus...

SANTA ANA - A teen-ager who went to prison for a robbery conviction that was later overturned has sued police in the case, eve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing her new duties as president-elect of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as the leader of her firm...

The selection of a particular set of rules is taken as an implied agreement to have the referenced institution administer the ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ran into thorny difficulties Tuesday as it attempted to adopt poli...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler approved grand-jury indictments of three juveniles Tuesday in a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Green was lucky. Green's lawyers didn't give up even after his 1992 double-murder conviction was upheld b...

LOS ANGELES - A week after a Los Angeles jury issued a $4.3 million verdict against Death Row Records and co-founder Marion "S...

VALLEJO - Charles R.B. "Mad Dog" Kirk, the deputy attorney general accused of suborning perjury to put an innocent man on dea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal consumer product safety law does not preempt state common law for individuals injured by allegedly fau...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego judge who joked to golfing buddies that appellate judges planned to throw out a $99 million judgme...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Commission for Women presented financial awards Monday to five domestic violence shelters...

Money laundering was intended as a tool for prosecutors to attack drug trafficking. That tool has been stretched far beyond it...