The latest case in a wave of abuse actions that experts say could bankrupt state schools involves a Fresno County district, where five former students filed a suit Wednesday alleging officials brushed ...

The conviction came nearly five years after the couple brought their unresponsive 10-month-old son to the Hoag Hospital ...

An unusually splintered California Supreme Court on Monday vacated the second-degree murder conviction of a Tehachapi woman whose partner killed their 2-month-old son. In a 5-2 decision that ...

A mother and father were convicted of child abuse this week for exposing their newborn son to extreme heat and cold and failing to give the child vital nourishment, nearly killing the infant.

Michael Jackson’s abuse accuser is the author of the book "My Friend Michael," Frank Cascio, his estate claims in a new court ...

Robert E. Cole, 48, was found unresponsive in his cell at Mule Creek State Prison on April 4, 2025. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) ...

A Stockton man is facing life behind bars after a jury found him guilty of child sexual abuse. This week, San Joaquin County prosecutors secured a guilty verdict against Antonio Hernandez, 59, on ...

The lawyer for a 31-year-old man charged with murdering a baby who died six years after suffering injuries is seeking to have the prior child-abuse conviction reversed. Randy Rodnick, representing ...

The payouts stem from a series of recent changes to California's statute of limitations for child sexual assault. Beginning with Assembly Bill 218 in 2019, the state opened a brief window for ...