ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — A woman told authorities she was held captive for more than a year by three people who forced her to do housework, raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes and pit bulls.

ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A former Playboy Playmate has admitted helping her Canadian boyfriend after he illegally entered the United States in northern New York last summer.

Galt Police Lt. Jim Uptegrove is retiring next month after one of the longest career stints in the department's history.

A Lodi attorney known for suing businesses that don't comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act has himself been sued by brothers who claim he has committed the same violation with his own office.

Ricky Gill: Youth didn't block Lodi man's bid for Congress

At the ripe old age of 25, Ricky Gill raised some eyebrows in 2012 by not only running for Congress, but giving three-term incumbent Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, all he could handle in his bid for re-election.

What were the founding fathers thinking when they drafted the U.S. Constitution?

The City Council will loan Galt’s redevelopment successor agency a quarter of a million dollars under an official agreement approved Tuesday.

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.

The California Association of Realtors wants to make you the consumer aware of the mortgage fraud that has been happening in California.

Should Stephen Glass be allowed to practice law in California?

A Lodi man faces an $800,000 bail after a marijuana bust that put him and his cousin behind bars.

Willard Mitt Romney. Where to begin? His tax personal income rate? His horrible inability to connect with normal people?

One by one, the young women vanished from the dusty farm towns of the Central Valley.

They were often addicts or prostitutes, and their disappearances over a 15-year period in the 1980s and '90s didn't seem to draw much official concern.

Galt City Council members are expected to move forward Tuesday with plans to purchase nine properties along 4th Street to be used for a proposed theater. The $1.2 million to acquire the parcels will come from already collected redevelopment funds.

Time changes all things — some to the good, some to the bad.

Galt will continue with its redevelopment agency until the current funding runs out. That means the city would receive just enough agency funds to pay the debts, complete the unfinished projects and oversee the assets.

Loren Herzog, convicted in the killing of Cyndi Vanderheiden of Clements, committed suicide by hanging Monday night, according to prison officials.

If you haven't driven through downtown Galt in a few months, you might not recognize it.

Property Officer Teri King starts her day a bit differently than most. While the police department moves rapidly around her, Teri spends her day methodically inventorying and processing thousands of pieces of evidence and property stored at the Lodi Police Department.

It is the duty of the officers in the Lodi Police Department to answer any and all calls.

During the past year, fireworks were sold for the first time in Lodi, gang violence became a growing concern, local residents demanded more access to the Mokelumne River and school officials were accused of changing grades to get students into a local college program.

Walk into attorney Randy Thomas' home in Acampo, and your eyes immediately shift to a large brown bear lunging at you with its claws.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of California granting women the right to vote. Decades before 1911, however, women had a champion in a Lodi pioneer who fought hard for women's rights but died four years before women won rights in this state. California was one of a handful of states to grant rights to women before the national constitution was amended in 1919.

Bunly Bou knew he was no longer in America after watching a car accident on the frenetic, unruly streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.