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Both community members and police agreed that there is too much gun violence in the Potrero Hill projects and that San Francisco's young people shouldn't have to be exposed to it.
A ballot measure passed by voters last week is already freeing hundreds of inmates from California county jails after their felony charges were reduced to misdemeanors.
Police are seeking an armed suspect after a shooting in Oakland Sunday left one man injured, police said.
One person was shot and another was stabbed in San Jose near the Guadalupe River early Sunday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
A woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI in a four-car collision on the Bay Bridge on Saturday night that left three others injured.
A man armed with a knife and wanted for an attempted robbery early Sunday morning in Petaluma is at large.
Officers responded to af a shooting San Francisco's Bayview District, and another in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.
A teenager was fatally shot in North Richmond on Friday night, a Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman said.
Police are investigating the death of a 36-year-old man found with a gunshot wound in Antioch early Saturday morning.
Police are investigating a shooting that left one dead and another injured in Richmond Friday night.
Libby Schaaf may be the new face of Oakland - but she is certainly facing the same set of problems.
Animal control officers in San Francisco are looking for help in finding out who stole a Chihuahua, beat her up, and left her in a dumpster in the city's Tenderloin district.
A former San Carlos PetSmart employee and her boyfriend were sentenced to prison time Thursday morning for a series of break-ins at homes they learned were vacant when the residents' pets were boarded at PetSmart
New parties, new encounters and new hookups: A new semester has started at Cal. But this year, some college guys are thinking twice about making that move, after lawmakers recently approved the affirmative consent or "yes means yes" law.
A man who witnesses said acted erratically at a Starbucks in Fremont and who prompted a shutdown of Interstate 880 last month has been arrested on suspicion of armed robbery.
Police said they are still seeking information about a shooting outside a shopping center that left one man dead Thursday morning.
For 179 days, San Francisco was gripped in fear over a crime wave involving random killings on the streets.
San Francisco police are investigating two separate shootings that left six people injured Wednesday night.
A big drug bust exposed an East Bay county's troubling problem.
A shopper at a Colma store said she was punched in the face by a mother after telling her to quiet down her child, who was throwing a tantrum.
State prisons officials say a San Quentin death row inmate convicted of two 1985 murders in Los Angeles has died of natural causes.
Solano County Superior Court Judge Daniel Healy was publicly admonished by a state commission today for referring to parents in family law cases with denigrating words such as "rotten," "stupid and sluggish," and "total human disaster."
A security guard was shot Wednesday outside a Starbucks in Antioch after he drew a weapon and began to fire at a suspect involved in an argument, according to police.
One person was wounded in a shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday night.
A flash fire at a residence in Antioch Monday burned a planter box and part of a deck in Contra Costa County's second hash oil fire in four days.
