Feds seek to stop California prisons from violating guards’ religious beliefs
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday challenged the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for its denial of religious exceptions for correctional officers of various faiths,...
View ArticleAlleged sex assault victim, 16, testifies at trial of former Bay Area attorney
A 16-year-old girl testifying in the felony child sex assault trial of a former Vacaville attorney frequently said she remembered “inappropriate touching” — but not all details of physical abuse. James...
View ArticleWitnesses describe Bay Area attorney’s alleged sexual misconduct at wedding
A pair of witnesses in the child sexual assault trial of former Vacaville lawyer James Glenn Haskell described seeing the defendant settle a hand on his oldest adopted daughter’s buttocks at a wedding,...
View ArticleAccused killer of 14-year-old Bay Area girl in 1982 faces September trial
A 58-year-old convicted killer charged with the 1982 bludgeoning death of a 14-year-old Vacaville girl faces a newly scheduled September jury trial in Solano County Superior Court. Marvin Ray Markle...
View ArticleJurors hear secret phone recording during Bay Area lawyer’s child sex assault...
The prosecution played a secretly recorded phone call in which jurors heard former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell, charged with several child sex assaults in 2022, tell a family friend that...
View ArticleChild abuse expert at Bay Area lawyer’s trial: ‘Very small minority’ of...
A clinical psychologist and recognized expert in child sexual abuse testified Tuesday in the Solano County Superior Court trial of James Glenn Haskell that “a very small minority” of victimized...
View ArticleFriend of Bay Area lawyer on trial for child sex assault recalls witnessing...
A friend of former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell, charged with several child sexual assaults and on trial in Solano County Superior Court, said he witnessed several instances of close physical...
View ArticleFeds indict Bay Area man for sexual exploitation of a child
A federal grand jury on Friday returned a two-count indictment against a 33-year-old Fairfield man, charging him with sexual exploitation of a child and receipt of visual depictions of minors engaging...
View ArticleJury finds Bay Area man guilty of child sex assault charges
Jurors in the Solano County Superior Court trial of a 35-year-old man found him guilty Thursday of several sexual assault charges. Vladimir F. Luna Morones will face sentencing in the coming weeks in...
View ArticleTearing up on witness stand, Bay Area attorney calls 2022 arrest for child...
Embattled former Vacaville lawyer James Glenn Haskell, charged with several child sex assaults, on the witness stand for a second day in Solano County Superior Court on Monday, called the day he was...
View ArticleAt trial’s end, Bay Area attorney charged with child sexual assault is...
Is former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell a monster who “dehumanized” three of his four adopted children, sexually assaulted the oldest girl and injured and humiliated two younger ones? James G....
View ArticleBay Area man gets 25 years to life for 2018 fatal shooting of girlfriend
At the end of a six-year-old case, a 30-year-old Vacaville man found guilty in 2023 of shooting and killilng his on-again, off-again girlfriend in a Vacaville garage told the court, his statement...
View ArticleBay Area attorney on trial for child sexual assaults is found not guilty on...
In a steady rhythm and loud voice, the court clerk in Department 25 of Solano County Superior Court said, “Not guilty,” to 16 of 17 counts against former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell. James...
View ArticleCharged with killing his 78-year-old mom, Bay Area man pleads not guilty
A man who allegedly killed his mother last month in Rio Vista pleaded not guilty Monday morning in Solano County Superior Court. Jeffrey Clyde Aidnik heard Judge John B. Ellis order him to return for a...
View ArticleBay Area man pleads not guilty to slashing woman’s throat
A man charged with slashing a woman’s throat earlier this month in Vallejo faces a preliminary hearing in the coming days in Solano County Superior Court. Official court records show that Jaylen...
View ArticleAlleged killer of Bay Area merchant arraigned, trial date pending
A 23-year-old Solano man accused of fatally shooting a Benicia market owner in 2022 was arraigned Monday in Solano County Superior Court and will face a jury trial in Vallejo. Nyzell Marquis Dubuisson...
View ArticleFormer Northern California Department of Defense employee sentenced for...
A former Department of Defense civilian employee was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Sacramento to one year and eight months in prison for assaulting a U.S. military member in July 2020, a U.S....
View ArticleWith DA unable to show cause, kidnapping and sexual assault charges against...
A Solano County Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a felony case against a Fairfield man suspected of kidnapping and sexual assault in January because the deputy district attorney was unable...
View ArticleBay Area man pleads to assault on a cop, faces seven years in prison
A 31-year-old Vacaville man on Thursday pleaded no contest to assaulting a police officer with likely great bodily injury and resisting arrest on New Year’s Eve 2022. He faces more than seven years in...
View ArticleConvicted killer pleads to 1980 killing of woman found slain in Bay Area field
Previously convicted of a murder, a 77-year-old state prison inmate has pleaded to killing a 21-year-old woman in 1980, then leaving her body in rural Dixon. Herman Lee Hobbs, 77 (Reporter file/Joel...
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