PHOENIX (AP) — They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn't oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias' execution, the jurors faced a decision that was wrenching and real, with implications that could haunt them forever.

LOS ANGELES — After a lengthy battle, Los Angeles Police Department detectives and prosecutors have decades-old audiotapes that could shed new light on other cases potentially connected to the Charles Manson killing spree.

NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes appeared disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats Friday in a criminal court where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Living in America in 2013, one would think discrimination would be illegal, but it is not. I am talking about marriage.

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Decades have passed since I actively practiced Roman Catholicism. But curiously, the church is still a large part of who I am.

Each year, the state's main press group, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, holds a session in Sacramento where political and media types offer updates and insights.

Saying that she never aspired to be a career politician, Alyson Huber finished up her duties as the Lodi area's Assemblywoman on Nov. 30.

Where were you? On Oct. 20, at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds, a group of dedicated men — farmers, lawyers, doctors, sheriffs, veterans and volunteers — came from all over California to educate our citizens about what is happening to rural America. It was a free event. It was twice advertised in the local newspaper, and also through email.

Republican Bill Berryhill faces Democrat Cathleen Galgiani in the 5th State Senate District.

On Nov. 6, we will vote for 12 propositions. Of those 12, six concern social issues, which, as per our policy, we avoid comment upon because they are divisive. But how do the remaining six stack up against the Tea Party Patriot tenets of promoting "government fiscal responsibility," "constitutionally-limited government" and "support of free markets"?

Perched eight feet off the ground in the driver’s seat of a hunter-green carriage, Greenlaw “Fritz” Grupe makes quite an impression. Here, Grupe is in control and can meet the world on his own terms and at a speed of his choosing.

Brett Jolley, a shareholder in the Stockton firm of Herum Crabtree, has been named a Rising Star in the Super Lawyer edition of Thomson Reuters' San Francisco Magazine for the fourth consecutive year. This designates him as one of the top attorneys under the age of 40 in Northern California.

Mandi Eisenbeis stood over her dad. It was a Thursday in May 2011 when she said her private goodbyes at a mortuary in Lodi. George "Randy" Eisenbeis had died young, felled at age 57 by a methamphetamine overdose.

Broadway actor, Luciano Pavarotti-trained opera singer and “World’s Longest Running Phantom” Franc D'Ambrosio is bringing everyone’s’ favorite theater songs to Hutchins Street Square on July 23.

I have a question; with the informed readers of the News-Sentinel, I know I'll find out quickly.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military's highest court agreed Monday to hear the appeal of a U.S. Marine convicted of murder in one of the most significant criminal cases against U.S. troops from the Iraq war.

When Stockton becomes the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy, it will strike a hard blow to residents, especially city employees and retirees whose health benefits and pensions helped drive the city toward insolvency.

In opting to become the nation's largest city to seek federal bankruptcy protection, the city of Stockton took a rare financial step of last resort after struggling with the economic downturn, soaring pension costs and contractual obligations.

Stockton officials continued to grapple with the city's financial plight, struggling to restructure millions of dollars of debt threatening to turn the city with the nation's second-highest foreclosure rate into the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.

A top water lawyer warned of a pending disaster in the Delta.

There will be a showdown for the 9th Congressional District seat between incumbent Democrat Jerry McNerney and Republican Ricky Gill, a 25-year-old political newcomer, this November.

A Lodi liquor store owner is behind bars and facing a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon after police say he shot a man fleeing his store with a case of stolen beer.

A Lodi doctor may lose his license after admitting to state medical investigators that he was getting high and watching pornography while on the job.

During the past dozen years, an estimated 72 people have lost their lives on the portion of Highway 12 between Lodi and Suisun City, Lodi City Councilman Larry Hansen told a group of elected officials and Tower Park residents Tuesday.