OPD Sets Up Special Investigative Unit To Deal With Oakland's Soaring Murder Rate
Violent crime has gotten so bad in Oakland, police are creating a new investigative unit to stop it.
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Violent crime has gotten so bad in Oakland, police are creating a new investigative unit to stop it.
Authorities on April 2 confirmed that the body of a woman found by a hiker in Siskiyou County last weekend has been identified as a 19-year-old who went missing in Oakland earlier this year.
A man suspected in the shooting death of a woman in Vallejo early this week was arrested Wednesday at a Fairfield apartment complex, according to Vallejo police.
Police in Mountain View on Friday announced the April Fool's Day arrest of three suspects caught on video stealing a large rubber duck from the front yard of a house last month.
Police have arrested a suspect after a Fremont hotel was evacuated following the reported bomb threat Friday morning.
Two officers were rammed by a car and injured -- one fatally -- at the barricade at the Constitution Avenue access point to the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Police said Friday.
Arson is suspected as the cause of a Thursday night grass fire that burned about five acres south of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Antioch, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials.
Police in San Francisco are investigating a shooting on Thursday afternoon that left a man dead in the city's Hunters Point neighborhood.
A man suspected in the targeted shooting death of a rap artist outside a bank in San Mateo in December was arrested in Oklahoma following what police called a round-the-clock investigation.
A suspect in the fatal stabbing of a woman in downtown Hayward has been arrested and police say the suspect and the victim knew each other.
A 32-year-old Redwood City man has been arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography,
Police in Fremont shot and killed a man in a hotel parking lot Thursday evening during a surveillance operation.
San Bruno Police requested the public's help Thursday searching for a suspect in an armed robbery Tuesday night.
Police are searching for a man suspected of attacking a woman of Filipino descent in Los Gatos on Tuesday, amid a rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans in the Bay Area and across the country.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Wednesday night shooting in El Sobrante that left one person dead and a second victim in critical condition.
