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Antolin Garcia-Torres, the 22-year-old man charged with kidnapping and murdering Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment hearing in Santa Clara County Superior Court Thursday afternoon.
A female victim was held up at gunpoint outside a Union City Walmart store and then forced to drive to a secluded area where she was sexually assaulted on Saturday night, police said.
A vehicle long enough to be an 18-wheeler, with a cab like a firetruck and a body like an 18-wheeler, could soon become a fixture at major disaster scenes and police incidents around the Bay Area.
A high-speed chase involving the California Highway Patrol ended in a crash that has caused the closure of the Willow Pass Road off-ramp from southbound Interstate Highway 680 in Concord, according to the CHP.
Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders.
The California Highway Patrol has deactivated an Amber Alert for two people believed carjacked and kidnapped by a knife-wielding man in Oakland. Police called that portion of Tuesday's incident unfounded and that the initial suspect and his two purported victims all knew one another.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson announced in a report on Wednesday that he was removing Thomas C. Frazier from his post as compliance director.
A UPS driver was caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout in Oakland Tuesday.
A man who allegedly impersonated a police officer and sexually assaulted a woman in unincorporated San Jose earlier this month has been arrested, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
An off-duty security guard was stabbed to death in downtown San Jose early Wednesday morning after pursuing a rowdy patron who was kicked out of a nearby bar and had walked around the corner, according to the bar's owner.
Two men and a woman were arrested in Antioch early Wednesday morning after leading police on a chase that ended in a multi-car crash that sent one person to the hospital, according to police.
An Oakland police spokeswoman said Wednesday that there are many unknowns about what was reported to be a carjacking and kidnapping at the Lincoln Square Shopping Center on Tuesday afternoon.
A former graduate student instructor at the University of California at Berkeley was arrested in Albany on Tuesday in connection with a sexual assault that occurred last month.
Joseph Martin, a former teacher at Woodside Elementary in Concord, is facing 125 felony molestation charges.
Two people, a teenage girl and an older man, are believed to have been kidnapped in a carjacking outside an Oakland supermarket Tuesday afternoon, police said.
A crew renovating an Oakland apartment building was held up in the middle of the afternoon Monday.
A Richmond man who held a relative as a sex slave for 15 years was sentenced to 22 years in state prison in Contra Costa Superior Court on Tuesday.
The Redwood City Police Department is using social media to match theft victims with their stolen property.
An inmate tried to escape from the Solano County jail Monday morning, a county sheriff's deputy said.
Oakland police announced on Monday that they made arrests in connection with a weekend homicide and a home invasion robbery last month in which a woman was shot and wounded.
Federal judges are giving California two more years to meet a court-ordered inmate population cap.
Detectives are investigating an alleged home invasion robbery that ended when the victim fatally shot a male suspect and wounded a female suspect at a residence in Hayward on Sunday evening, a police sergeant said.
A man with a felony warrant who was barricaded in a San Jose home since Sunday evening has been taken police custody, a police sergeant said.
One person was killed in a DUI crash near Martial Cottle Park in San Jose early Sunday morning.
Watsonville police officers were notified that three males had driven up to the emergency room entrance at Watsonville Community Hospital and dropped off a male victim suffering from a single gunshot wound.
