California Suit Claims OpenAI Chatbot Gave Advice That Led to Fatal Overdose May 13, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones The parents of a man who died of an accidental drug overdose last year sued OpenAI and its founder and...
California County Suing Meta Over Scam Ads May 11, 2026 By Jeff Horwitz California’s Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in...
DOJ Files Statement of Interest in California Fire Insurance Case May 6, 2026 The Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit filed against State Farm by homeowners who lost...
Colorado Funeral Home Owner Gets 30 Years in Case That Forced Industry Crackdown April 27, 2026 By Colleen Slevin and Matthew Brown A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies was sentenced to 30 years...
Trump Says He’ll Probe Banks Over Response to LA Wildfires April 24, 2026 By Catherine Lucey and John Gittelsohn President Donald Trump said he would look into the actions of banks in their response to last year’s devastating Los...
Rapper Sues California Prisons for $100M Over Stabbing by Inmate April 20, 2026 By Andrew Dalton Rapper Tory Lanez has sued the California prison system, saying he never should have been housed with a fellow inmate...
California AG Bonta Says Sable Restart Won’t Lower Oil Prices April 1, 2026 By Nathan Risser The restart of some 50,000 barrels a day of oil production off the coast of California will have have “no...
The Scope of Damage From Hawaii’s Floods Becomes Clearer March 27, 2026 By Audrey McAvoy and Gene Johnson The worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades has swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways...
Jury Awards $667K to Muslim Men Pepper-Sprayed by Missouri Prison Guards March 12, 2026 A federal jury on Monday awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men incarcerated in Missouri who were...
Court Tosses Judgment Blaming Montana Asbestos Deaths on BNSF February 27, 2026 By Matthew Brown A federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s finding that BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people in...