Opinion
California is among 16 states that allow prisoners to be used for forced labor. That’s wrong. Proposition 6 will get rid of the repugnant practice.
Sept. 27, 2024
World & Nation
Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and another editor are the first journalists convicted under a colonial-era sedition law.
Sept. 26, 2024
Business
A former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire has been sentenced to two years in prison for participating in what a prosecutor said was one of the largest recent financial frauds in U.S. history.
Sept. 25, 2024
California
The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he’d been serving a life sentence for murdering a close friend, officials said.
Sept. 22, 2024
Residents of a tiny Kentucky town are struggling to cope with a shooting involving a judge killed in his chambers and the sheriff charged with murder.
Sept. 20, 2024
Mariana Katzarova said the return home to Russia of former criminals who have had their legal slates wiped clean is adding to more domestic violence.
Sept. 23, 2024
Music
Attorneys for Combs say they will keep fighting against having their client released from Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Sept. 19, 2024
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as he awaits trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.
Gabriel Zendejas Chavez, indicted in an investigation of the Mexican Mafia’s rackets in L.A. County jails, pleaded guilty to a rarely filed charge called ‘misprision of a felony’ in a deal that may spare him prison time.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country’s jailed ex-security chief that he has links to drug cartels.
Sept. 18, 2024