A California woman who has been missing ... and the circumstances of her death were considered suspicious. Although the woman’s information was added to the national missing persons database ...

When Brenda Andrew was on trial for murder in 2004 in Oklahoma, a prosecutor named Fern Smith turned to the jury and held up ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.