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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.Now the 60-year-old technician and the obscure police crime lab where she worked for 29 years stand at the center of a scandal that has led to the dismissal of hundreds of criminal cases and jeopardized thousands more. Police have accused Madden of skimming cocaine evidence from the lab, but she hasn't been criminally charged in the case.Forensics experts say Madden is not the first crime lab worker suspected of stealing drugs or other illegality, and San Francisco's lab joins several other cities in suffering a loss of credibility.A Houston man was awarded $5 million last year after spending 17 years in prison on rape charges overturned because of a discredited criminal lab.Detroit shut down its crime lab in 2008 after outside auditors uncovered serious errors in th...
An unlicensed doctor bilked hundreds of immigrants by performing fake medical exams and injecting them with a saline solution he claimed was a vaccine, prosecutors s...
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he has signed legislation expanding the ability of state agents to seize firearms from nearly 20,000 Californians who are n...
President Obama has apologized to California Attorney General Kamala Harris for making a flirtatious comment about her at a fundraiser Thursday. Obama called Harris ...
Here is the transcript of President Obama's remarks at White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday.THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, ev...
Amid a national debate about preventing the mentally ill from owning firearms, one state has a potentially potent weapon -- in California, officials are allowed to c...
An appellate court ruling overturning a rape conviction because the victim wasn't married prompted anger Friday from women's groups and a state legislator who plans ...
A federal appeals court on Friday put the brakes on a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay minors straight.A three-judge panel of ...
California's top prosecutor said Tuesday it's up to local police agencies to decide whether to comply with federal government requests to hold illegal immigrants.The...
At least 572 San Francisco city workers and executives made more than the governor of California last year. And that's not including overtime, according to the San F...
Sergio Garcia completed law school with the help of odd jobs and proceeds from a self-help book. Then he passed the state law exam on the first try.But his goal to p...
California's attorney general has sued a major veterans charity on allegations that its directors misused in private donations for hefty pensions, golf memberships a...
California will become the first state to write into law much of the national mortgage settlement negotiated this year with the nation's top five banks, and expand i...
SAN FRANCISCO — The first hint of scandal at the San Francisco crime lab came in December when officials received a tip that a technician might be stealing cocaine u...
San Francisco's district attorney is defending a city-led job program for first-time drug offenders that has included at least six illegal immigrants.The program cam...
A former San Francisco lab technician who acknowledged snorting cocaine from evidence, resulting in the costly dismissal of hundreds of cases, will not be charged wi...
A man convicted of attempted murder and arson after setting his 6-year-old son on fire in 1983 faces three new felony charges of threatening a prosecutor, city offic...
In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon ...
In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon ...
The scene repeats itself every day on city streets: A driver gets stuck bumper-to-bumper, blocking the intersection and another car's ability to complete a left turn...
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