A parolee was shot in the arm and arrested after she tried to ram her vehicle into the patrol cars of officers who were conducting a narcotics investigation.

Sonia Hawley, 32, of Fontana was booked at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga Saturday for attempted murder. She is being held in lieu of $1 million.

Hawley was the suspect in the narcotics investigation, Fontana Sgt. Jeff Decker said. She was on parole for the possession for sales of narcotics…

They are not old enough to vote, have full driving privileges, join the military or buy a beer. Yet, three reputed teen gang members charged in San Jose's Halloween night attack on a pair of young trick-or-treaters face the very real prospect of spending the rest of their lives in prison.

Locked up in the Santa Clara County Jail, these 15- and 16-year-old boys now find themselves a portrait of the ongoing debate over imprisoning violent juvenile offenders for life. That is the potential sentence if these high-school-age defendants are convicted of the most serious charges against them, including the attempted murders of the 12- and 13-year-old victims.

The San Jose case, which has sparked a community outcry, is hitting the local courts at a time when there is renewed public and legal scrutiny nationally on the tension between dealing with rampant youth violence with harsh sentences and the age-old presumption that juvenile offenders should have a shot at reform…

An August preliminary hearing date has been set for a convicted Vallejo holdup man arrested last year on attempted murder charges following an attack on a county jail correctional officer.

Solano County Superior Court Judge William C. Harrison on Thursday scheduled 10:30 a.m. Aug. 18 for a preliminary court hearing into the charges against 30-year-old Fred Feleki Martinez of Vallejo.

Martinez faces charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, battery upon a custodial officer and possession of a deadly weapon by a county jail inmate…