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

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The governor started 2024 by seeking ballot-measure conflict and ended by avoiding it. But he may have singlehandedly killed ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Passed by an overwhelming majority of Golden State voters, Prop. 36 will implement harsher penalties for retail crime.