Vallejo Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Trespasser
A Vallejo police officer shot a trespasser who threatened the officer's safety by advancing with a brandished knife, police said.
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A Vallejo police officer shot a trespasser who threatened the officer's safety by advancing with a brandished knife, police said.
Four people were wounded by gunfire in an apparent shootout Saturday night during the filming of a rap video in Fairfield, police said.
Spike strips put the brakes on a reckless driving suspect who led Petaluma officers on a chase early Sunday morning on and off Highway 101.
A SWAT team of police officers shot and killed a heavily-armed man on a shooting rampage at a Santa Clara Rotten Robbie store, early Saturday morning.
At a funeral held for Cpl. Ronil Singh, mourners remembered the 33-year-old officer as a hard-working immigrant and a hero who made the ultimate sacrifice for his adopted country.
Police have yet to make an arrest in the fatal shooting of three men Friday night in West Oakland.
Three men are dead following a shooting Friday night in West Oakland, police said.
A Vallejo man who already had two arrest warrants against him is also facing charges of animal cruelty, after authorities said they found a dog that died of starvation in his apartment.
Days after reclaiming the House majority, Democrats are introducing gun control legislation timed for the anniversary of the shooting of former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Newman early Friday for a solemn procession honoring a Central Valley police officer who was gunned down during a traffic stop the day after Christmas.
A Hayward man on Thursday was sentenced for brutally beating his 9-month-old pit bull puppy for defecating in his house, according to prosecutors.
Father Aidan McAleenan, pastor of St. Columba Church, a North Oakland Catholic church known for social activism, said the city could be doing more to expand its central crime-fighting strategy, Operation Ceasefire.
A man accused of forcing his way into a 99-year-old woman's apartment in San Francisco's Chinatown on Monday and trying to sexually assault her made his first appearance in court Thursday afternoon.
The body of 23-year-old Karina Banta of Hayward was found Monday afternoon at a landfill on Altamont Pass Road near Livermore. Authorities consider the death suspicious.
A California parole panel on Thursday recommended for the first time that Charles Manson follower Robert Beausoleil be freed after serving nearly a half-century in prison for murder.
