FRESNO, Calif (KFSN) -- A state parole board granted parole for James Schoenfeld today. Schoenfeld was involved in the Chowchilla bus kidnapping in July of 1976. He ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday allowed parole for one of three men convicted in the 1976 kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver who were held captive in a buried trailer. The ...

The infamous Chowchilla kidnapping, which occurred on July 15, 1976, took place in Chowchilla, California. The abductees reportedly included a school bus driver along with 26 children. All children ...

It’s the stuff out of nightmares and horror films: Armed men waylaying a vehicle, then hiding young victims in an underground prison. But it happened in real life to 26 California schoolchildren ...

Governor Jerry Brown has allowed the parole of 63-year-old James Schoenfeld, one of three men convicted in the 1976 kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver. As the Chronicle reports, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 — in what a prosecutor called "the largest ...

In this July 20, 1976, file photo, workmen readied a van at a rock quarry in Livermore where 26 Chowchilla children and a bus driver were held captive. James Schoenfeld, one of three men who kidnapped ...

SACRAMENTO — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping ...