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Matthew Muller was convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault in a 2015 case in which Vallejo police initially accused the victim and her boyfriend of making up the story of her abduction. He pleaded guilty this week in two additional cases.
Ensuring federal aid for the victims of Los Angeles’ fires is rightfully a top priority for California’s leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom. Could it mean less pushback on Trump’s threatened deportations?
In the Trump-Musk post-truth world, conspiracies are traveling faster than the flames when it comes to the L.A. fires.
As firefighters slowly contain the flames that have devastated Los Angeles, pledges to rebuild, stronger and better, are already being offered. But past fires should teach us that recovery is slower and more complicated than most expect.
Thousands have been forced from their homes by the Los Angeles fires, Orly Israel among them. But for this Palisades resident, the flames hold a lesson, and hope.
Matthew Muller, featured in the Netflix documentary ‘American Nightmare,’ was charged with another home invasion in the Bay Area, the second time in recent weeks that new crimes have been attributed to the convicted kidnapper.
Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a quick preview of his budget on Monday, sounding a moderate note after the crushing presidential defeat for Democrats in November.
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Matthew Muller was convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault in a 2015 case in which Vallejo police initially accused the victim and her boyfriend of making up the story about her abduction. Muller has now been charged with two earlier home invasions.
This past year was dominated by a presidential race unlike any other. With Trump set to retake the White House, columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak puzzle out the past 12 months and put 2025 in perspective.
A shocking series of murders stunned the rural California mountain town of Placerville in the 1980s. Authorities were under intense pressure to solve the cases, and for a while it seemed they did. But Times reporters Anita Chabria and Jessica Garrison spent more than a year reexamining the crimes and found troubling questions about both justice and the justice system.
