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The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has filed 13 felony charges against a suspected serial arsonist in connection with recent fires set in San Jose, a court clerk said Friday.
An 18-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of a toddler during the filming of a rap video in Oakland.
Fire crews discovered what appeared to be a marijuana grow operation while fighting a one-alarm house fire in Richmond on Thursday evening, a fire battalion chief said Friday.
Patrick William Brennan, a 48-year-old San Jose resident, was arrested Wednesday evening. He is suspected of lighting about a dozen fires in the downtown area since last week.
San Francisco police are asking for the public's help in identifying two people who vandalized a Municipal Railway bus in the heart of the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood last month.
Authorities in the East Bay have arrested 17 people and seized $18 million in drugs in what officials describe as one of the region's biggest drug busts.
A judge on Thursday denied a bid by a 16-year-old boy to be tried as a juvenile, rather than an adult, on an aggravated mayhem charge for allegedly setting a skirt-wearing teenager's clothing on fire on an AC Transit bus in November.
Police announced Wednesday night the arrest of a man suspected to be responsible for a series of up to a dozen fires in downtown San Jose since last week.
A San Jose woman bilked out of $500,000 by a Nigerian scam artist on a dating website luckily recovered $200,000 from a bank in Turkey, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
A couple is behind bars Wednesday morning after investigators linked them to multiple residential burglaries—a crime spree prosecutors say was made possible by the wife's knowledge of vacant homes through her job boarding dogs at the PetSmart store in San Carlos.
New charges involving an additional victim were filed Wednesday against an award-winning Livermore golf pro who is accused of sexually abusing boys he had been teaching.
Chief Larry Esquivel met with the Story Road Business Association to try to address their concerns about crime and staffing levels.
In documents in the case, the three admitted to sexually assaulting the 15-year-old in 2012 and possessing naked photos of her, before she took her own life.
Police in Milpitas were investigating the city's first homicide of the year after a man was fatally shot in a hotel parking lot Tuesday night, a police lieutenant said.
A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday that a war of words between two groups of young people outside a San Leandro BART station a year ago escalated into a shooting that claimed the life of an innocent bystander who was waiting for a bus.
A 64-year-old man was injured in a stabbing in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood late Monday night, according to police.
East Palo Alto police are investigating a homicide from Monday evening, a police sergeant said.
Residents in several San Jose neighborhoods pledge to keep watch through the night as the search continues for a serial arsonist suspected in more than a dozen fires since Wednesday.
A man who was shot at by an off-duty San Francisco police sergeant during a confrontation that stemmed from a fender-bender on Interstate Highway 280 early Sunday morning has been arrested, police said Monday.
A state lawmaker proposed Monday that California extend its requirement that gun buyers undergo background checks and register their weapons to anyone who assembles a firearm in their home.
A 22-year-old man was ordered Monday to stand trial on a murder charge and other allegations for allegedly fatally shooting an 8-year-old girl during a sleepover at an East Oakland home last July.
SJFD Capt. Rob Brown said 11 of 13 fires that broke out in downtown San Jose were intentionally set. They include two that struck early Sunday.
Firefighters in San Jose are investigating two suspicious fires Sunday morning and believe they may have been set by a serial arsonist that has set fire to numerous buildings in the downtown area.
An off-duty officer shot and struck a person after a physical altercation following a minor accident early Sunday morning in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood.
Police announced this week that 2013 marked the first time in 27 years without a single homicide in the city of San Pablo, in addition to a significant drop in other types of crime citywide.
