Two US Forest Service workers were doing field work in a northern California forest on Thursday morning when they were ...

Federal authorities must provide access to clean drinking water, nutritious and sanitary meals and address hygiene issues ...

Lompoc City Manager Dean Albro remained on the job Wednesday, a day after an effort to remove him prompted a crowd to show up ...

Joy’s Lucky being up against dangerous people makes us believe more in her ability to “run the board,” in her father’s words.

Sensational crimes such as the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas fueled anti-crime furor and new laws, ...

A deceptive law enforcement practice is proliferating across California jails. As it gains momentum, an increasing number of ...

Sometimes, the recipe for great TV isn’t complicated: simply find good material, hire superb actors, assemble a collection of ...

Officials say Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. was reported missing Tuesday from a minimum-security facility in Jesup. As an inmate at Georgia's maximum security prison, Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. was accused of ...

Con man Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” the mastermind of one of the largest U.S. military bribery ...

The private prison company CoreCivic says it has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to ...

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Several federal prisons, including one in Prince George County, are shutting down because the U.S. government cannot afford the billions of dollars in necessary ...

Three federal prison facilities in Texas and three in other states will close, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency made the announcements on Wednesday ...