Going out to a club means being around strangers. These strangers can sometimes grate on your nerves and lead you to do things you wouldn't normally do. In some cases, the consumption of alcohol fuels the anger that occurs in these types of situations. It isn't clear...
Getting caught with drugs and having to face a prison sentence is a situation that some California residents might not have to deal with for too much longer if a proposal makes its way through the legal process. The proposal would essentially reduce the severity of...
When you go to a potluck dinner, you are trusting that the other people who brought dishes have prepared them using acceptable ingredients and acceptable procedures. In some cases, the person who makes the dish might include ingredients that aren't widely used in food...
For most people, hanging out with friends isn't going to lead to trouble as long as they spend their time together doing legal activities. For one group of three friends who were spending time around a campfire in California, things took a horrible turn and now the...
The California mother of 14 known as "Octomom" for giving birth to octuplets almost five years ago has again made headlines. Nadya Suleman has been charged with welfare fraud, which is a felony. If convicted of double counts of perjury by false application and a count...
Two men, ages 20 and 17, have been taken into police custody for their alleged involvement in a string of residential burglaries in northern Orange County. Authorities state that the 20-year-old man admitted to committing 11 burglaries and 10 attempted burglaries in...
On December 22, police with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Department took three men into custody after alleging that they had attempted to sneak drugs and paraphernalia into a jail. The authorities said that the men had tried to smuggle the undisclosed...
On Dec. 11, a physician was arraigned in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on drug charges and charges of conspiracy on suspicion of writing phony prescriptions for potent painkillers. Federal drug agents alleged the doctor wrote prescriptions for oxycodone and...
A 50-year-old California man has been sentenced to four years of incarceration after he was found to be renting Orange County homes he didn't own to unsuspecting tenants. He accomplished this unusual feat by filing quitclaim deeds against the homes. The properties...
A Drug Enforcement Administration affidavit alleges that a California doctor and son sold prescription pills and marijuana to drug dealers. The doctor is accused of abusing his medical license to prescribe the drugs, great amounts of which were reportedly discovered...