State Sen. Ron Calderon accepted about $88,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent posing as a film studio owner and a Southern California hospital executive during a wide-ranging probe into his ...

SACRAMENTO – Mexican President Felipe Calderon will make his first – and some have argued overdue – official visit to California on Wednesday as part of a tour of major U.S. cities in an effort to ...

FBI agents searched offices in the Capitol on Tuesday -- the first such raid in 25 years -- serving warrants and carting away evidence in what law enforcement officials said was a corruption probe ...

SACRAMENTO -- While under investigation for allegedly taking bribes last year, state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon (D-Montebello) openly accepted $6,827 in legal gifts, including concert and fight tickets, ...

Former California state Assemblyman Tom Calderon has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to laundering bribes that his brother, former state Sen. Ron Calderon, received from ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS / AP) -- Former California state Sen. Ron Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3 1/2 years in prison in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his ...

Embattled California State Sen. Ron Calderon pleaded not guilty Monday after he was charged last week with a long list of federal bribery and corruption allegations. The 56-year-old Montebello ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...