Authorities: Suspected Noose In Rohnert Park Was Kids' Rope Swing Placed Months Before
Public safety officials in Rohnert Park withdrew their assertion that officers found a "noose" on a rope dangling from a tree in the city Thursday morning.
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Public safety officials in Rohnert Park withdrew their assertion that officers found a "noose" on a rope dangling from a tree in the city Thursday morning.
Berkeley police have announced a $50,000 reward being offered by the city for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for a fatal shooting on Monday night.
Public safety officials in Rohnert Park said officers found a "noose" on a rope dangling from a tree in the city Thursday morning, the second found in the Bay Area in less the six hours.
The Vallejo police department announced Thursday it would prohibit use of the "carotid control hold" -- also called sleeper holds -- as a technique to restrain aggressive suspects resisting arrest.
Police in Oakland confirmed on Thursday afternoon that they are investigating an effigy found hanging from a tree near Lake Merritt with an American flag as a hate crime.
Officers arrested a 60-year-old man Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco's Richmond District in connection with the murder of an 80-year-old woman, police said.
Three home invasion suspects were taken into custody following a tense standoff with police at a home in South San Jose Thursday morning, authorities said.
Five ropes with nooses that were found in trees around Oakland's Lake Merritt have been taken down and will be investigated as hate crimes, according to Oakland police and Mayor Libby Schaaf.
A sexual assault suspect was arrested Wednesday morning by the East Bay Regional Park District police following at least one assault on Iron Horse Trail in or near Walnut Creek.
Joe Canciamilla, the former elections chief for Contra Costa County was charged Wednesday with 34 felonies for allegedly using more than a quarter million dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses and lying about it.
The California Highway Patrol spent $38 million responding to recent widespread protests over racial injustice, state officials said Tuesday.
Facebook said it will continue to review groups on its platform associated with the extremist Boogaloo movement.
A South San Francisco police officer was injured Tuesday during the arrest of a San Francisco man who was allegedly harassing an ex-girlfriend.
A woman was found shot dead inside a home in Vallejo and police were treating the death as suspicious.
After a downtown looting and vandalism spree on May 31 and a Black Lives Matter protest the next afternoon that turned violent in the traffic lanes of Interstate Highway 680, Walnut Creek City Council members on Tuesday wanted to hear more about why their city blew up on social media for the wrong reasons.
