Data show the slide is real, not just anecdotal. CalMatters found that the share of parole hearings that ended in a grant ...

Thousands of prisoners in California go before the Board of Parole Hearings each year in hopes of a chance at freedom. It's a ...

Erik Menendez was denied parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings on Thursday, 36 years and one day after he and his brother shot and killed their parents in the family's Beverly Hills ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For California prisoners who committed crimes when they were young and received life sentences without parole, few ...

One day after officials in California rejected Erik Menendez’s bid for parole, his older brother will appear before commissioners Friday and hope for a different outcome. Lyle Menendez’s hearing is ...

More than 35 years after murdering their parents in a volley of shotgun blasts, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez are the closest to freedom since they were arrested and sentenced to life in prison. The ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — On Thursday, the California parole board denied parole for Erik Menendez, one of the brothers convicted of killing their parents in a Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Erik, now 54, and ...

SAN DIEGO — Lyle Menendez, one of the two brothers convicted in the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in Beverly Hills, was denied parole by a California review board on Friday in his first ...