California Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled California's death penalty unconstitutional.
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled California's death penalty unconstitutional.
The Central Marin Police Authority is warning the public about a phone scam in which a scammer impersonates a law enforcement officer and threatens a resident with arrest for not appearing for jury duty unless the resident pays a fee.
A high-priced prostitute accused of leaving a Google executive to die on his yacht in California after shooting him up with a fatal hit of heroin has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and heroin charges.
The Richmond City Council has asked its city attorney to explore whether it could enact free speech limits during council meetings, but city officials have been told that silencing the people who disrupt meetings is most likely unconstitutional.
A serial child molester was sentenced in a Martinez courtroom Tuesday to 194 years to life in prison for sexually abusing four boys in Brentwood in the 1990s.
An 8-year-old girl selling candy inside a store in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood was robbed Monday by a woman who said she needed money for a bus fare, police said.
Good Samaritans subdued a suspected carjacker in San Diego, saving a woman and girl in a dramatic scene all caught on camera.
Two men accused of knocking a woman unconscious in an apparent drunken brawl outside San Francisco's AT&T Park last week pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday afternoon.
A man who was shot in downtown Vallejo Monday afternoon died of his injuries, police said.
A reputed street gang member convicted of stabbing San Francisco 49ers player Aldon Smith smiled at his attorneys Monday as a judge in Santa Clara County Superior Court sentenced him to three years of parole.
A Rohnert Park man suspected of the hit-and-run death of a Santa Rosa man Saturday turned himself in to the California Highway Patrol Monday afternoon, a CHP officer said.
A homeless man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman who gave him money in Richmond earlier this month has been charged with a slew of felonies including rape by force, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.
A once crime-ridden park in San Francisco's Mission District is now teeming with community activity and the credit is going to a new unit within the police department.
A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge will hear evidence Monday to decide whether a suspected pimp should stand trial on charges of kidnapping a human trafficking victim on her way to a police interview in El Cerrito.
Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent talks to KCBS In Depth co-hosts Jane McMillan and Ed Cavagnaro about the city's efforts to reduce violent crime.
A woman was found fatally shot on the porch of a home in Vallejo on Sunday night.
A suspected shoplifter was arrested after allegedly assaulting two police officers at a Kmart store in Santa Rosa Sunday morning, police said.
Police in Palo Alto released a sketch Sunday night of a man suspected of harassing and groping a woman as she sat in a park in the College Terrace neighborhood on Friday morning.
Two armed suspects robbed a pizza parlor in Santa Rosa at gunpoint on Saturday night, police said.
The stabbing was reported at the BART Plaza at 24th and Mission streets around 10:45 a.m.
The CHP is looking for John Mesker of Rohnert Park, the owner of the vehicle officers say was involved in the crash.
A naked man, accused of attacking police after allegedly jumping on cars, was transported to a hospital to be evaluated for what police said may have been a narcotic-induced reaction.
A Nevada man who worked as a certified sign language interpreter for the deaf at North Salinas High School pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor child molestation.
When CHP officers and Sonoma County deputies arrived on the scene, they located the body of a male on the west shoulder of Petaluma Hill Road just north of Hunter Lane.
A woman shot in San Francisco's Mission District Saturday morning is expected to survive her injuries.
