March 29, 2012
A Pentagon equipment giveaway worth an estimated $2.8 billion has bolstered police, sheriff’s and fire departments across the country over the past two decades.
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February 24, 2012
Dead at 50 with a severely broken neck, Van Ingraham’s injuries looked suspicious. But police took the word of a blind man over three medical experts.
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February 17, 2012
Illegal immigrants with severe mental health problems are caught in legal limbo, trapped in detention in the United States without attorneys.
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April 6, 2012
On Oct. 13, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Northstone Organics, a medical marijuana co-op farm in Mendocino County.
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October 17, 2011
Since October 2004, 132 U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees have been indicted or convicted on corruption-related charges. Rapid expansion and lack of funds for background checks are blamed.
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April 23, 2011
Trespassing marijuana growers are setting booby traps, resorting to violence and vandalism, and polluting private land as property owners and law enforcement try to fight back.
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April 7, 2011
A state agency abandons responsibility to fully enforce California’s landmark seismic safety law for schools.
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April 9, 2011
Regulators ignore school construction inspectors accused of corruption and poor work performance.
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March 19, 2011
As the federal trial gets under way, a jury will be asked to decide whether Barry Bonds set his home-run record while on steroids.
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March 5, 2011
Jeffrey Rodriguez is one of 44 Californians released from prison since 2000 who have been denied money after a hearing before the state’s victim compensation board, which can award $100 a day for each day spent behind bars after a wrongful conviction.
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February 5, 2011
Coroners in Northern California are farming out thousands of cases each year to a private firm whose doctors have dissected the wrong body and have given inaccurate testimony that helped send an innocent person to jail.
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August 21, 2010
The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown has dismissed an increasing number of criminal cases against defendants suspected of elder abuse, while cutting back on surprise inspections to investigate violence and neglect in nursing homes.
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June 5, 2010
Hundreds of marijuana delivery services are circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries, bringing marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state.
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June 3, 2010
A flourishing and unregulated industry of pot delivery services is circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries and bringing medical marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state, records and interviews show.
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February 13, 2010
Law enforcement agencies are more likely to seize cars from sober, unlicensed drivers than take drunks off the road at the state's sobriety checkpoints, investigation finds.
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