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Black drivers in California were stopped by police at 2.5 times the per capita rate of whites and searched three times as often, according to a report from a first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling by police.
Friends said the victim in the fatal Montclair Starbucks laptop theft frequently went to the Starbucks to work on his computer and died on his 34th birthday.
Lawrence Tate was found unresponsive late Wednesday inside his cell at North Kern State Prison. The 63-year-old was taken to a hospital where he died.
A Sonoma County sheriff's K-9 named 'Rappa' helped apprehend a man accused of stabbing a victim back in November.
The pastor of one of the oldest African American churches in the South Bay wants the community to know he's opening his doors to everyone for this Sunday's service after the church was targeted by a vandal over the weekend.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a laptop theft and subsequent homicide outside the Montclair Starbucks location in Oakland on New Year's Eve, Oakland police said Wednesday.
A man has died from a collision after he tried to pursue the thieves who stole his laptop in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood, police said Tuesday afternoon.
A San Jose man was arrested in his car outside a Starbucks where he had allegedly installed two cameras inside a bathroom and was keeping an eye on who went in and out, police confirmed Tuesday.
Two survivors of child sexual abuse alleged to have happened at the hands of priests in the Catholic Diocese of Oakland during the 1970s filed lawsuits on Tuesday.
The Placer County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday identified the suspect who allegedly stole a car in Rocklin that had a toddler and a five-year-old inside Monday night.
Two Oakland carjacking suspects were arrested following a pair of Fairfield robberies and a four-vehicle crash, authorities announced Monday.
A man spotted breaking into cars in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood last Saturday night has been arrested, authorities said.
California's long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig economy, boosting online privacy and discouraging shootings by police, among other potential trend-setters.
A San Jose man was arrested Friday on suspicion of sex crimes committed in August at a Palo Alto day spa and police believe there may be other victims.
The Alameda County district attorney has charged an Oakland man with murdering a 19-year-old woman earlier this month but police say the suspect has left the country.
Police say two Stockton malls were locked down Thursday evening after a large disturbance involving more than 150 juveniles.
The California Supreme Court revived a long-running debate Thursday when it reinstated a lawsuit over whether psychotherapists must tell authorities when patients report they are attracted to child pornography.
The owners of a popular South Bay bakery posted surveillance video Thursday showing a burglar breaking into their business in order to steal a cash register.
At least one person was in serious condition following a shooting Christmas Day evening in East Oakland, police said.
A 29-year-old man was dead and two others suffered injuries not considered life-threatening following a shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin District late Christmas Eve night, according to police.
A 6-year-old boy was in critical condition early Wednesday following a shooting during a family Christmas Eve celebration in Vallejo, police said.
A devastating holiday season for San Jose's Muniz family took an even crueler turn over the weekend.
A 29-year-old man was stabbed during what witnesses told police was a gang-related fight inside the crowded Santa Rosa Plaza Mall, authorities said.
A Bay Point convenience store clerk, who was robbed and viciously assaulted, shot and killed the suspect as the armed, masked man fled -- a drama captured on surveillance video.
A woman was shoved to the ground by a pair of men who wrested her purse away after a struggle Sunday at the Walmart store on Albrae St. in Fremont.
