The next year, the city of Los Angeles approved a $30 million settlement to end a federal class-action suit alleging that the ...

Under Newsom, California has made it more difficult to jail gang members, chiefly through 2021’s Assembly Bill 333. The STEP Forward Act, as it was called, made it harder for prosecutors to use gang ...

LOS ANGELES — The vice mayor of a small Southern California city is under fire after appearing to call on street gangs to organize in the face of immigration sweeps by federal agents in and around Los ...

An early 1990s report from the California Department of Justice noted that there were more than 500 U.S.-based motorcycle gangs at the time, many with evocative names like Iron Horsemen, Rebel Rousers ...

VISALIA, Calif. - Two gang members were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, in the January massacre of six people including a baby at a central California home associated with a rival gang, ...

Four nights after his father's postgame pep talk, on Nov. 29, Amari Peterson was one of four victims - including three children - killed in a mass shooting at a toddler's birthday party in Stockton.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Supreme Court handed down two decisions last week that could impact decades of sentencing for ...

Four people affiliated with San Fernando Valley street gangs were arrested and charged with participating in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against an Armenian organized crime boss who was allegedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of a Southern California street gang was sentenced to nine years in prison for ordering the kidnapping of a woman in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The vice mayor of a small Southern California city is under fire after appearing to call on street gangs to organize in the face of immigration sweeps by federal agents in and ...

Patrick Peterson gazed at the basketball trophies on his son's dresser, blinking back tears. Just last month, he'd taken 14-year-old Amari to a boys basketball game at Modesto's Downey High School.