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Stockton pimp sentenced to 11 years for trafficking underage ‘Snow Bunny’
A 22-year-old Stockton man was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a 16-year-old.Read More
Judge blocks Texas abortion ban, says effort was unconstitutional ‘scheme’
U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman temporarily halted enforcement of the Texas “heartbeat” abortion bill. His detailed order he did not mince words. Read More
U.S. Justice Department joins lawsuits alleging Kaiser Medicare fraud
Lawsuits allege Kaiser Permanente defrauded the government in a years-long Medicare billing scheme.Read More
DOJ accuses Breed of discrimination in health policies for places of worship
The U.S. Department of Justice Friday sent a letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed outlining concerns over a public health policy allowing only one person at time inside...Read More
Bay Area leaders applaud ‘watershed’ LGBTQ rights U.S. Supreme Court ruling
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Bay Area officials celebrated a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday that extended protections against job discrimination to gay, lesbian and transgender workers. The high...Read More
Chief admits SFPD needs to pick up reform pace
San Francisco police are aiming to pick up the pace on 272 reforms called for by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2016, as the department may be only...Read More
Lawyers argue government terminated DACA ‘the wrong way’
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that state lawyers stood up for the rule of law in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the fate of a...Read More
Arguments begin Tuesday as Supreme Court weighs DACA fate
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether it should preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting undocumented young immigrants from deportation. The...Read More
Hayward man faces charges in Chinese spy scheme
A U.S. citizen was arrested Friday at his home in Hayward on suspicion of spying for China, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Xuehua Peng, also known as Edward Peng, has...Read More
Federal judge reinstates nationwide injunction on asylum restriction
A federal judge in Oakland on Monday reinstated a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking a new government rule that would prevent almost all migrants at the southern U.S. border from...Read More
Dublin man to serve 30-month prison term for insider trading fraud
A 55-year-old Dublin man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for felony insider trading related to using proprietary information from Dublin-based Ross Stores Inc. to gain as...Read More
Trump threatens census delay after Supreme Court blocks citizenship question
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked for now a plan by the administration of President Donald Trump to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The court...Read More
California sanctuary laws (mostly) withstand federal appeal
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld most of a lower court ruling that left in place the bulk of California's three "sanctuary" laws aimed at protecting undocumented...Read More
Schaaf dismisses attorney general’s criticism
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, responded to a fresh round of criticism from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this afternoon, telling reporters: "No one elected me to be fearful." Sessions condemned her this...Read More
State to oversee ongoing SFPD reforms
The California Department of Justice will now oversee the ongoing police reforms in San Francisco after the U.S. Department of Justice announced last year that they no longer wanted...Read More
DOJ presses Supreme Court to reverse DACA ruling
The U.S. Department of Justice will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by a federal judge in San Francisco to keep protections for undocumented young people...Read More
Feds warn Bay Area sanctuary communities
The cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Fremont and Watsonville and Contra Costa, Monterey, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties received sanctuary warning letters from the Department of Justice.Read More
Union organizer sentenced for money laundering
A labor organizer who tried to unionize workers in the cannabis industry was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for participating in a money laundering scheme.Read More
SF sues feds over immigration rules
Dennis Herrera said the lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeks a court order to declare the new restrictions as unconstitutional.Read More
9th Circuit refuses to delay travel ban appeal
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Monday rejected a U.S. Justice Department request to put on hold its appeal for reinstatement of President Donald Trump's ban on travel.Read More