California allows a person with a claim to assets in the estate of someone who has died to collect them without going through formal probate by using an affidavit for collection of personal property, ...

State Sen. Ron Calderon accepted about $88,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent posing as a film studio owner and a Southern California hospital executive during a wide-ranging probe into his ...

SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – Federal authorities hope DNA will help them tie a Surfside Beach man to a wildfire arson across the country. A federal judge signed off on a request on Dec. 12 to get DNA ...

Court records released Thursday show that an Iraqi immigrant who was killed last month in her California home had a rocky relationship with her teenage daughter and apparently was planning to divorce ...