When a congressional committee apologized to a man who spent three decades in prison for a murder he didn't commit, it reopened a chapter of Sonoma County history. Joseph Salvatti appeared before the ...

Attorney James McDonald, former FBI agent and one-time federal prosecutor, has a nose for rats, rogue investigators and crooked informants. He also knows a government frame-up when he sees one, he ...

When a law enforcement crackdown on the Texas Mexican Mafia nearly obliterated the criminal organization's San Antonio leadership in 2004, it created a power vacuum that led to Joe “Pancho” Pena's ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal agents arrested 16 alleged members of Puente-13, a San Gabriel Valley-based gang affiliated with the ...

Confidential informants are the lifeblood of law enforcement's effort to fight crime. But the best informants are generally very bad people — ruthless criminals — and while their information helps the ...