McDonald's is a sponsor for the London Olympics - and a British doctors' group says that's sending the wrong message in a country with ballooning obesity.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities have agreed to halt a deportation case against a Venezuelan man in a same-sex marriage in California.
A former Kern County detentions deputy was sentenced Thursday for assaulting female inmates. Anthony Lavis, 56, was arrested early last year for the alleged sexual assaults in the Lerdo Pre-Trial facility.
Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in...
A 46-year-old former inmate at Lerdo jail claims she was sexually molested by a detentions deputy. She files suit and also claims the Kern County Sheriff's department is just as guilty for allowing the abuse to happen.
A Kern County detentions deputy accused of having sex with an inmate has accepted a plea deal. Margarita Young pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of sexual activity with a confined person.
A Kern County detentions deputy has been charged with seven crimes, including sexual penetration by force. Anthony Michael Lavis is accused of of sexually assaulting female inmates in the Lerdo Pre-Trial facility.
Two different Kern County detention deputies are accused of having sexual relations with inmates. A former deputy says more sex happens behind bars than the public knows about.
Lerdo jail is embroiled in a new sex scandal. Anthony Michael Lavis, a detentions deputy, is accused of sexually assaulting female inmates in the Lerdo Pre-Trial facility. He was charged with seven criminal counts Thursday.
The Vatican will review security procedures after a woman jumped a barrier and rushed at Pope Benedict XVI for the second time in two years, this time managing to knock him down before being pulled away by guards, the Vatican spokesman said Friday.
Police say a man suspected of fatally stabbing his mother last month is under arrest after trying to leave a Fisherman's Wharf restaurant without paying.
Police are looking for a 41-year-old man after his mother was found stabbed to death in her Santa Rosa condominium over the weekend. Police say Christopher Anthony Lavis is wanted on suspicion of murder after his mother, 63-year-old Constance Elizabeth LaSalle.
Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the nation's most populous state.