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San Leandro police officers and other staff members assigned to work in the field are now equipped with video camera devices worn on the front of their uniform shirts.
A San Francisco man pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts on Thursday after paralyzing a five-year-old girl and killing his passenger while driving intoxicated near the Sonoma Raceway in October 2013
Four former San Jose police chiefs announced their support for county supervisor Dave Cortese in the mayor's race on Thursday citing crime and police staffing as the two of the main issues in the campaign. Mayor Chuck Reed, however, is endorsing Councilman Sam Liccardo and has dismissed the chiefs' endorsement as political theater.
There have been 86 residential burglaries in Petaluma this year - 18 in August alone - and 74 of them were committed between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
City officials may soon shut down a San Jose bar, after neighbors said the establishment is attracting crime, drugs and prostitution.
Marijuana sales nationwide are estimated to hit $104 billion this year, and a lot of it is coming from California's Emerald Triangle of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties.
A seriously wounded gunshot victim was found near San Francisco General Hospital Thursday evening, according to police.
A former Pleasanton McDonald's manager was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for robbing another McDonald's in San Mateo last year.
A former assistant superintendent of the Santa Clara Unified School District has been charged with steering $77,000 in public funds for bookkeeping services to himself and staff members, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
In the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Sikhs were unintended target of hate crimes, because the attackers thought they were Muslims. Thirteen years later, Sikhs said the attacks have not stopped.
Police are reporting a 1-year-old child was shot Thursday afternoon in East Oakland.
Novato police have arrested a man suspected of offering money to another man and five juveniles if they would let him massage them, a police sergeant said.
Santa Rosa police arrested a suspect in a marijuana-related home invasion robbery and shooting early Thursday morning.
A Brentwood police officer is recovering today after being injured in a car crash with a suspected drunk driver in Oakley early Thursday morning, police said.
Moral character is a key factor the San Francisco 49ers consider in recruiting players, a top team official said Thursday, acknowledging the difficulty of accurately assessing how an athlete will ultimately behave on and off the field.
Oakland has had a remarkably peaceful summer, with its longest murder-free stretch since the late 1990s and a dramatic drop in homicide and other violent crime, Mayor Jean Quan said Wednesday.
A San Francisco mother and her grown son were each sentenced to three years felony probation and 1,000 hours of service assisting the disabled community after they pleaded guilty to felony forgery in a fraudulent disabled placard scheme, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday.
Drought-tolerant cacti and succulents are becoming a favorite for homeowners looking to keeping their front yards green – and now are also becoming an easy target for thieves.
Six Santa Clara County law enforcement officers legally defended themselves and others when they fired 29 shots that killed an unarmed suspect in a restaurant parking lot in Sunnyvale last year, according to prosecutors.
Two residents were injured in a home invasion robbery in a gated community in San Jose early Wednesday morning, police said.
The plan will allow police to tap into private security cameras to help catch criminals.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the arm in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood on Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
A body was found in a parking lot in Berkeley Tuesday afternoon, a police spokeswoman said.
A person of interest in the murders of five women in San Mateo County nearly 40 years ago was identified Monday by the FBI.
Home Depot confirmed on Monday that its payment systems have been hacked in a data breach that could affect millions of shoppers who used credit and debit cards at its more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stores.
