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SANTA CRUZ - The manager of a Santa Cruz sober living environment arrested by drug detectives last year on suspicion he was selling methamphetamine from the drug-free house will spend a year in County Jail, the District Attorney's Office reported Wednesday.

A former Southern California dentist who killed a 13-year-old girl and two other patients with overdoses of anesthesia in the 1980s must be paroled, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The president of a Santa Clara company that coats computer parts with gold has pleaded no contest to dumping hazardous metals into a sewer and signing false documents in connection with those illegal disposals.

It was Justin Belton's lucky day. Belton, 30, pumped his fist in victory today as he left court after San Francisco prosecutors dropped a felony heroin sales case against him. His was one of more than a dozen drug cases dismissed at the Hall of Justice...

A federal appeals court concluded that prosecutors failed to turn over key evidence that could have swayed the jury's verdict, resulting in an unfair trial.

The No Name Peak Prescribed Fire is designed to reduce natural accumulations of surface and ladder fuels, prepare the area for fire tolerant tree regeneration, and improve forage for big game wildlife species. This project is located approximately 9 miles NNW of Newport, WA (Section 5 T32N R45E WM). The residual overstory consists of Douglas-Fir, and Ponderosa Pine with some areas of Western Larch. Slope ranges from 30% to 60%. The project size is 200 Acres and there is 150 remaining to be treated.

NEW YORK — The FBI arrested a reputed Gambino solider today on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian mobster operating in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.

A 19-year-old pregnant woman was arrested on suspicion of murder today for allegedly suffocating her 2-year-old daughter, Oakland police said. Tiffany Lopez, who is three months pregnant, is being held in the slaying of Kamilah Russell, said Officer Jason...

THERMAL — Riverside County authorities say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6.

PHILADELPHIA — The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding in foreign terrorism and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.