4 San Francisco Banks Robbed During Thanksgiving Week, Police Seek Suspects
Police are investigating at least four bank robberies that took place across San Francisco during the week of Thanksgiving.
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Police are investigating at least four bank robberies that took place across San Francisco during the week of Thanksgiving.
The robberies occurred within minutes of each other at banks in the 700 and 900 blocks of Washington Street.
A hostage kidnapped during a Northern California bank robbery was killed by police in an ensuing chase and shootout, likely during a final gunbattle where the lone surviving suspect used her as a human shield, authorities said Monday.
The hostage who died in the bank heist and shootout in Stockton July 16 will be laid to rest Monday.
A woman who was inside a Stockton bank during last week's violent robbery and shootout that led to the death of Misty Holt-Singh talked to our sister station in Sacramento about what happened inside the Bank of the West branch.
Prosecutors in Stockton have charged a suspect in a bank robbery with three counts of murder in the deaths of a hostage and two accomplices, and 22 counts of attempted murder of police officers in a shootout.
The father of one of the suspects who died in Wednesday's bank robbery in Stockton expresses his condolences to the family of the hostage who was killed.
Detectives believe that one of the men killed in Wednesday's bank robbery, hostage situation and deadly shootout carried out a robbery at the same Bank of the West branch earlier in the year.
A 19-year-old Stockton man is expected to be charged Monday with triple-murder in the deaths of a woman taken hostage and two other robbery suspects who died amid a violent police shootout in broad daylight.
Greg Bentley, an attorney representing the family of Misty Holt-Singh, is seeking documents, dispatch logs, video and other evidence police gathered during and after the hourlong robbery, car chase and gun battle Wednesday afternoon.
A fourth suspect connected to the robbery of a Stockton bank and the chase and deadly shootout that followed is still on the loose, according to authorities.
The suspects who robbed a Stockton bank and took three people hostage also intended to kill people in a running gun battle with police, according to the city's police chief.
Stockton police said at least three people are dead and one other was hospitalized after a bank robbery and high-speed chase Wednesday afternoon. One of the people killed was a hostage and the other two were suspects in the robbery.
Mountain View police were asking the public for help in identifying a malodorous man suspected of robbing a bank of more than $1,300 on Tuesday and fleeing after stuffing the cash into a blue bag, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
A 30-year-old man is behind bars after allegedly robbing a bank in El Cerrito and fleeing on a skateboard.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a bank in San Carlos on Monday afternoon.
The FBI and police in San Mateo County are searching for a man they dubbed the "Valentine's Day Bandit." Authorities said he is the suspect in two recent bank robberies on the Peninsula.
Police were trying to identify a man who robbed a bank in San Francisco's Mission District on Monday afternoon.
A suspect was arrested within minutes of a bank robbery at a San Leandro US Bank branch Thursday, according to police.
Santa Rosa police are looking for a man who robbed a bank on Wednesday afternoon.
San Jose police are asking for the public's assistance for clues about a "confident" woman who wore wigs during five recent banks robberies in Milpitas and San Jose and is becoming more threatening, a police detective said Tuesday.
A man suspected of being the so-called "Cotton Ball Bandit" has been charged with committing 10 bank robberies in Marin County between December 2012 and December 2013, according to the district attorney's office.
KPIX 5 cameras caught a bank robbery suspect being chased down and tackled right in front of our building on Battery street in San Francisco Thursday afternoon.
A masked man robbed a bank on San Francisco's Market Street on Monday afternoon, police said Tuesday.
The Marin County Sheriff's Office said the suspect of a Novato Bank robbery also is believed to have robbed two banks in Mill Valley.
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It was the highest-scoring World Cup game since Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 in 1982.
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It was the highest-scoring World Cup game since Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 in 1982.
British runner Josh Kerr ran the mile in 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds on Saturday, breaking a record that has stood since 1999.
The teams play for the second time this season. The Valkyries won the last meeting 62-49 on July 6, with Kaitlyn Chen scoring 14 points in the win.
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A Union City woman was arrested for alleged illegal alcohol sales at Lake Merritt in Oakland, police said Tuesday, including an alleged sale to an underage decoy.
Authorities on California's Central Coast said they are searching for additional victims, after a pastor was arrested for alleged child sexual abuse.
A San Jose driver has been arrested and charged with murder following a fiery crash that killed a mother and her young child on Highway 87 late last year.
A man accused of striking an elderly woman with an e-scooter while fleeing San Francisco police Monday evening has been charged with multiple felonies, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Thursday.
Police in Oakland have released surveillance footage as they search for a suspect in a deadly shooting in East Oakland late last year.
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Taylor Farms said none of its branded salads or kits contain the iceberg lettuce associated with the outbreak.
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