Alicia Montejano, 43, and her son Reuel Huerta were found brutally beaten inside an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Belleview Ave in Stockton, Calif. on Dec. 23.

By Karen Breslau | Bloomberg. California lawmakers took the state one step closer to becoming the first in the US to apologize for the harms of slavery, even though the practice was never legal there.