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A Riverside County couple was in custody Monday accused of abusing their 13 children including shackling several of them to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings.
A community is rallying around an East Bay grocery store clerk who got fired for trying to stop a crime. People can't understand why trying to do the right thing got him canned.
A Northern California congressman is pushing a plan to create a land-based backup for the GPS satellite system which, he says, is a prime target for attack by cyber warriors.
During World War II, Karl Clark was instrumental in saving his ship from kamikaze pilots in the Pacific. Sadly, racism robbed him of official recognition of his bravery for decades.
Grammy Award winning gospel music composer, singer and chorus master Edwin Hawkins, whose arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" for a Bay Area church choir became an international hit died Monday at his home in Pleasanton.
A 26-year-old Livermore man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly punched his mother Monday morning in a hospital parking lot in Pleasanton, leaving her with major injuries to her head.
A California Highway Patrol officer was hurt when a car plowed into a crash scene under investigation on Highway 4 in Contra Costa County.
Crews worked around the clock to clear boulders, trees and crushed cars from all lanes of Highway 101 but officials said the key coastal highway would remain closed for another week after deadly mudslides inundated it.
Mark Montgomery and his family returned from a Brazilian vacation only two days before the mudslide that killed him and daughter Caroline came crashing down a hillside into their two-story home.
Someone opened fire on a Cadillac traveling on Interstate 280 near Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco early Monday, wounding 3 people and forcing the shutdown of the southbound lanes of the freeway for several hours.
Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries, died suddenly Monday in London, where she was recording.
Mitty High tennis coach Tyler Nii appears to have died after he plunged into Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand while skydiving.
Sunnyvale officers arrested a man they believe touched a 17-year-old girl inappropriately and forced her to do the same to him.
A 70-year-old woman who died in a collision with a Berkeley city vehicle on Friday afternoon was identified Monday as Shelley Rideout.
A Rohnert Park officer shot and injured an armed suspect Sunday night after the man repeatedly asked to be shot by police and allegedly threatened the officer.
