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Five children and three adults were restrained and fatally shot in the head at a Houston home by a man with a violent criminal history who had previously lived there, authorities said Sunday.
Camera crews from major Bay Area television stations and photographers from two newspapers have been robbed of their pricey gear.
Police on Saturday morning were investigating a Friday night fatal shooting in San Jose.
A vehicle crashed into a building in Oakland Friday evening, possibly as a result of a sideshow in the area, according to a fire dispatcher.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill increasing the penalties for manufacturing hash oil or methamphetamine in residential California neighborhoods.
One of the three men who kidnapped a busload of Chowchilla schoolchildren in 1976 and buried them in a quarry in Livermore for ransom was paroled from the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo at 5:15 a.m. Friday, state prison officials said.
Police have arrested 49ers outside linebacker Aldon Smith Thursday night in connection to a hit and run accident.
Surveillance cameras recorded the caper at about 1 o'clock Thursday morning. The remarkably clear video first showed two men getting out of a dark Chevy pickup.
A 42-year-old San Francisco woman suspected of killing an 18-year-old Balboa High School student at San Francisco's McLaren Park in May has been charged with murder and is set to appear in court on Friday, a district attorney's office spokesman said Thursday.
A 17-year-old girl was assaulted and robbed by a large group of suspects in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Police have made an arrest in a May shooting that killed an 18-year-old in San Francisco's McLaren Park.
Federal prosecutors have asked a U.S. judge in San Francisco to seal documents in which defense attorneys for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow claim prosecutors unfairly targeted him while avoiding a possible probe of city officials whose names surfaced in wiretaps.
Mayor Ed Lee's squeaky clean image is under fire. The mayor talked exclusively to KPIX 5 about allegations that he was the target of an undercover FBI sting.
A suspect in an attempted murder shot and injured a police officer who was chasing him in Pittsburg Wednesday afternoon, according to Pittsburg Police.
Surveillance video of another so-called Rainbow Girls takeover-style robbery of department store has been released by San Francisco Police, and investigators have identified three suspects.
A 27-year-old Richmond woman suspected of stealing $35,000 from a home she rented in San Francisco through the online lodging website Airbnb this spring was picked up by authorities in Sonoma County last month for narcotics-related violations, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday.
A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Alameda stopped a submersible vessel carrying more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean last month -- the largest bust of its kind in Coast Guard history.
Burglars led police on a high-speed chase through four San Francisco neighborhoods early Wednesday morning.
Some homeowners were hit with a nasty surprise when returning to the homes they were forced to evacuate due to the Willow Fire when they found their homes had been looted.
Lawyers defending Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in his corruption case have filed an affidavit which cites FBI documentation accusing San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other city and state officials of participating in alleged bribery schemes, contract rigging and money laundering.
A 21-year-old Lafayette native built the firearms he used to kill a 19-year-old woman and then himself at her home in Walnut Creek last month, police said Tuesday.
A pregnant woman in Central California is in critical condition after being shot in the head during a case of road rage, according to authorities.
Police arrested a man and are seeking information on the whereabouts of a female accomplice who is suspected of stealing an expensive piece of medical equipment from a vehicle in San Francisco's Marina District last month, police said Monday.
Three suspects forced their way into a Palo Alto home a family recently moved into on Sunday night, police said Monday.
A woman was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood on Saturday night, police said.
