Alan Riquelmy

2 days ago | courthousenews.com | Alan Riquelmy

LAS VEGAS (CN) — Aaron Goodwin, one of the stars of reality TV show “Ghost Adventures,” told the judge at his wife’s sentencing that he’ll never feel safe again. His wife, 32-year-old Victoria Goodwin, pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit murder in Eighth Judicial District Court in Las Vegas. On Thursday, she tearfully apologized to Judge Nadia Krall and her husband, saying regret consumed her. “This is my rock bottom,” Victoria Goodwin said.

2 days ago | courthousenews.com | Alan Riquelmy

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A woman claiming false advertising of petroleum jelly products received a healing balm on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled her two putative class actions survived motions to dismiss. Lacey Timmins filed suit in the Eastern District of California last year against Walmart and Unilever United States, arguing that their respective baby petroleum jelly products, labeled as “hypoallergenic,” had fragrance — a known allergen.

3 days ago | courthousenews.com | Alan Riquelmy

The Center for Biological Diversity says policy changes by the state's utility regulator to cut customer incentives hampers efforts to expand rooftop-solar, particularly in low-income communities. LOS ANGELES (CN) — The amount of credit a rooftop-solar owner receives took center stage Wednesday before the California Supreme Court, as attorneys battled over how much power is wielded by the state Public Utilities Commission.

4 days ago | courthousenews.com | Alan Riquelmy

WOODLAND, Calif. (CN) — A prosecutor in the Carlos Dominguez murder trial slammed the former UC Davis student on Tuesday, accusing him of killing people out of anger — not mental illness — and changing his story. The questions from Deputy District Attorney Frits Van Der Hoek quickly drew a rebuke from Dominguez’s public defender, who accused the prosecutor of misconduct moments after he began his cross-examination.

4 days ago | courthousenews.com | Alan Riquelmy

WOODLAND, Calif. (CN) — The shadow figure first came to Carlos Dominguez somewhere between waking and sleeping. On trial for two fatal stabbings and the attempted murder of a third, the former University of California, Davis student told jurors Monday that symptoms of what he later realized was schizophrenia started in his freshman year. Dominguez, 22, opted to take the witness stand in his own defense.