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Residents of the Oakmore District of the Oakland Hills , where Mayor Jean Quan resides, met on Wednesday night to demand city leaders provide more police to stop escalating home-invasion robberies and other violent crimes.
The California Highway Patrol announced Thursday that it will deploy officers to help the understaffed Oakland Police Department as early as next week.
Both directions of state Highway 1 south of Half Moon Bay have reopened following a crash Saturday morning that killed one person and left two others critically injured when a car went off the road.
An Oakland City councilmember said Thursday the city should explore whether officers from other police agencies could bolster staffing at the Oakland Police Department until the next academy class graduates.
The headstone at the Oakwood Cemetery grave site of Officer John Pedro was stolen over the weekend. Pedro was buried ten years ago after he died in a crash during a 2002 car chase. Memorials for him have since been vandalized on four occasions.
The driver of a vehicle was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a traffic collision in unincorporated Marin County early Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
All lanes reopened on Interstate Highway 680 in Pleasanton Sunday morning after an earlier crash killed one person, according to the California Highway Patrol.
All lanes on southbound U.S. Highway 101 were cleared Sunday evening, following a police investigation and accident just north of Holly Street, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A woman was arrested after allegedly striking a buffer at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza and then attacking and spitting at the law enforcement officials who took her into custody early Saturday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
SWAT teams from Newark and Union City were called to a Newark hotel Sunday to help apprehend a wanted suspect, according to police.
A few thousand law enforcement officers, government officials and community members gathered in Vacaville Thursday morning to say goodbye to slain California Highway Patrol Officer Kenyon Youngstrom.
A California Highway Patrol officer killed in a shooting on Interstate 680 last week near Alamo is being hailed as a hero after his organs were donated to four California residents—including three from the Bay Area.
A man broke his back in a motorcycle crash while allegedly evading a California Highway Patrol officer in a high-speed chase through unincorporated Santa Rosa Friday night.
A California Highway Patrol officer who died of his injuries following a traffic stop shooting on an East Bay highway had his organs donated and is helping save the lives of eight people, according to the CHP.
As family, friends and colleagues of California Highway Patrol Officer Kenyon Youngstrom mourn his death, the loss is being felt by law enforcement agencies and those who have lost loved ones in the line of duty.
San Jose firefighters rescued a man who had become trapped between two buildings at a shopping plaza early Thursday morning, according to San Jose Police.
A suspect believed to have been one of two people in a car that rammed and shot at a California Highway Patrol vehicle in Oakland earlier this summer was arrested in East Palo Alto Wednesday, police said.
Officer Kenyon Youngstrom remained in critical condition until Wednesday evening, when he was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m., according to the CHP.
A man who was shot and killed after fatally wounding a California Highway Patrol officer during a traffic stop on Interstate 680 near Alamo on Tuesday was originally from the Bay Area and studied and worked in computer engineering here.
The man who shot a California Highway Patrol officer on Interstate 680 in Alamo Tuesday shot the officer without warning in the head after a traffic stop, according to authorities.
A California Highway Patrol officer critically wounded in a shooting that followed a traffic stop on Interstate 680 Tuesday morning is Kenyon Youngstrom, the CHP confirmed Tuesday night.
The California Air Resources Board and the California Highway Patrol were both inspecting trucks at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday, as part of a month-long campaign to ensure compliance with California's air pollution laws.
The San Jose Police Department is redeploying officers and freeing up other staff in order to increase police presence on the streets after eight homicides in 11 days.
A state assemblywoman representing the San Jose area said violence is becoming "out of control" in a letter to the city's chief of police Tuesday on the heels of the city's 30th homicide of the year.
A young driver died after he fled California Highway Patrol officers who had tried to stop him for a traffic violation and crashed his car near the Port of Oakland early Friday, a CHP spokesman said.
