Fugitive Rapist Caught After Publicized Search
A publicized search for a paroled rapist who authorities say cut off his ankle monitor and harassed the family of his 80-year-old victim ended after he was spotted on a Palm Springs street.
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A publicized search for a paroled rapist who authorities say cut off his ankle monitor and harassed the family of his 80-year-old victim ended after he was spotted on a Palm Springs street.
Women attending Delta College are worried about more than their next test as police investigate yet another sexual assault on the campus.
The woman has trouble talking and writing after she suffered a stroke, which made it difficult for her to accurately communicate what happened with the alleged rape. That could be used against her in the trial.
Detectives want to know who worked on a Santa Barbara County strip mall construction project in 1979 as they seek to identify a serial killer suspected of murders and rapes in California more than 30 years ago, the sheriff's department said Saturday.
Sheriff's deputies say it started at the Rite-Aid parking lot on Bridge Street in Colusa. They say the victim, a woman, would pull out and eventually realized a truck that had also been in the lot was following her.
The state Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would close a loophole in California law that resulted in a rape conviction being overturned because the victim was not married.
A suspect is now behind bars after a Manteca teen was reportedly held captive, tortured and raped for days.
An arrest has been made months after a woman in her 60s was attacked and raped -- the suspect is only 15 years old.
A young woman was raped and the man who did it was found guilty, but that conviction was recently overturned by a state appeals court due because of an old law.
The leader of a conservative faction within the California Republican Party says pregnancies by rape are rare because a woman's body is traumatized by the violence, recalling remarks that derailed a U.S. Senate candidate's campaign last year.
Davis police are on the hunt for two suspects after a woman says she was raped and held against her will.
A 64-year-old south Sacramento woman was raped and robbed, and the suspect has not been caught.
A 40-year-old physician's assistant is suspected of targeting women near Chico State University over the past 18 months in kidnappings, attempted kidnappings and sexual assaults.
Police are investigating a terrifying attack in Woodland after a woman reportedly woke up to find her attacker in her bedroom with a knife to her throat.
We are currently seeing two very different approaches to the post-debate push from the two Presidential campaigns – Obama has a much stronger opening to the two week push.
Once again, a Republican politician has said something extreme about rape. Extreme and extremely stupid.
From being deceitful on Romney's actual position on abortion to being deceitful that women get pregnant from rape or that women can die from pregnancy complications it is time to call the GOP on the deceit and the stupidity.
"Some girls rape easy." Those are the shocking words of Roger Rivard, a Republican state representative in Wisconsin previously endorsed by Paul Ryan.
A professional clown has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after DNA evidence tied him to the 2002 rape of a 12-year-old girl he abducted while in full costume.
After Mitt Romney's 47% don't pay taxes remark, Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan dubbed the Romney campaign a "rolling calamity" for all its problems and continuing self-inflicted wounds. At this point, she might have to extend that label to Republican efforts to take the majority in the Senate as they flounder and flip flop.
A Fresno police officer has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman while she was unconscious.
The basic fact is that Romney, Ryan and Republican's are uncomfortable with a few of the words Congressman Akin used. They are not, however, uncomfortable with the policy position he was expressing. The record shows that they march in lockstep with Congressman Akin.
Congressman Akin's comments are unconscionable and while Congressman Akin owns the words that came from his mouth, the sentiment and his policy goals are shared by both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, despite their statements today.
A man whose rape case made national news when his alleged teenage victim was jailed in order to force her testimony against him has been found guilty.
The 17-year-old girl was once the center of national attention, outrage and even sympathy. Today she is painted as a liar by her accused rapist's lawyer.
