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The shooting of a Chihuahua in East Menlo Park earlier this month is being investigated by the Peninsula Humane Society, who has offered a $1,000 reward for information about it, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA officials said Monday.
A hostage kidnapped during a Northern California bank robbery was killed by police in an ensuing chase and shootout, likely during a final gunbattle where the lone surviving suspect used her as a human shield, authorities said Monday.
Oakland police announced a $2 million grant to bolster what they say are proven violence reduction strategies since crime is down this year compared to last.
KCBS cohosts Jane McMillan and Ed Cavagnaro talk with San Francisco District Atttorney George Gascón about Prop 47, a November ballot measure that would reduce some non-violent drug and property crimes from felony status to misdemeanors, and other public safety issues that he says need to be modernized.
Police say two motorcyclists died after they crashed while trying to escape gunfire in a San Francisco neighborhood.
Two people shot in San Francisco's Bayview District Sunday evening suffered injuries that are considered life-threatening, a police spokesman said.
A 39-year-old Fremont man was arrested on suspicion of burglarizing cars in the Westridge area of Portola Valley on Thursday, a San Mateo County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.
Newark police have arrested a young man on suspicion of stealing from a local elementary school.
An ordinance that limits how employers and housing providers use criminal history in their decision making goes into effect in San Francisco next week.
Authorities have arrested a man from West Marin County for allegedly threatening people in Point Reyes Station with a 26-inch machete.
A man was shot and killed in Bay Point on Friday night, a Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said Saturday.
A man who was dubbed the "Chrome Revolver Bandit" after a series of 14 armed robberies in San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties was sentenced Friday to more than 800 years in prison.
A man and a woman were arrested Thursday on suspicion of growing marijuana, running a butane hash oil lab and trafficking narcotics out of a home in San Francisco's Miraloma Park neighborhood.
The case against 29 defendants including suspended state Sen. Leland Yee and convicted Chinatown gang leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow will have to be split into smaller groups before the case can go to trial.
Palo Alto police are searching for a young man who allegedly groped a middle-aged woman Thursday evening as they walked their dogs near Stanford University, according to spokesman.
A man held up a bank in downtown San Francisco Thursday afternoon, police said.
A man who ran an unlikely campaign for governor of California earlier this year has been arrested on suspicion of shooting his neighbor in the stomach and killing a horse, officials said Friday.
A man who made the acquaintance of his victim just before robbing him in Palo Alto on Wednesday night remains at large, police said.
Police say two robbers used duct tape to tie up an unsuspecting grandmother who was babysitting before ransacking her family home.
An Oakland man has been arrested in Nevada in connection with a carjacking case out of Half Moon Bay, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
A man was arrested in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday after San Mateo County sheriff's deputies said he fired several shots at another man.
A California man was charged Thursday with starting the state's third-largest wildfire, a 2013 blaze that charred hundreds of square miles of land in Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest.
The father of a baby who police say was stabbed to death by her mother in Livermore was found dead Wednesday, according to authorities published report.
Police arrested 11 people -- including a man suspected of shooting a woman in front of her apartment last week -- during a crime suppression effort in Antioch on Wednesday night.
A man suspected in connection with multiple home burglaries in Morgan Hill and San Jose was arrested in Walnut Creek on Tuesday night.
