SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court will rule on Tuesday on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, the court said. The ruling on California's same-sex marriage ban, passed by voters in 2008, could set ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel ...

Roseanne Barr's name will be on the California primary ballot as a candidate for the Green Party. Barr filed documents to become the political group's official representative last week and her election campaign will get underway at the forthcoming ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The ballot measure inserted the one man-one woman provision into the California Constitution, thereby overruling the court's decision. It was the first such ban to take away marriage rights from same-sex couples after they had already ...

Hokey as the training exercise appears, it's at the heart of a serious effort under way across California and the rest of the nation to better prepare probationers for life on the outside and make them less likely to become repeat offenders.