72-Year-Old Arrested For String Of Fires On SF Polk Street
A 72-year-old man has been arrested for a series of arson incidents in San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood.
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A 72-year-old man has been arrested for a series of arson incidents in San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood.
Two women have been charged with identity theft for allegedly stealing personal information and mail from patients at a breast cancer center in Alameda County.
They have been popping up in strip malls all over the Bay Area: Internet cafes that look a lot like mini casinos. While local authorities are trying to shut them down, a gray area of the law is proving hard to tackle.
Police are asking for help in finding a suspect who convinced a woman to get into his car and then sexually assaulted her in San Francisco's Richmond District in July.
Two women were charged with felony identity theft last week after Santa Clara police found mail stolen from breast cancer patients in their possession, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Investigators are looking into reports from female students at the University of California at Santa Cruz that their drinks were spiked with drugs at parties.
A California soccer coach has been sentenced to a year in jail for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl after she fell asleep during a party at his home last year.
Police arrested a Petaluma man for stalking a female victim and attempting to take her phone on Tuesday evening in Novato, police said.
Loved ones Wednesday were mourning the death of a San Jose handyman who was killed Tuesday evening in what police are calling the city's 40th homicide of the year.
The Oakland City Council's Public Safety Committee decided not to proceed with a controversial proposal for a city-wide youth curfew on Wednesday night. It was the third time that such a measure has been defeated in the last several years.
A 26-year-old man was fatally shot outside a Motel 6 in Vallejo on Tuesday evening, police said.
A San Francisco police officer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, saying he was racially profiled and wrongly arrested by several colleagues who didn't recognize him.
A wanted gang member and a passenger were arrested after a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured two people in Richmond Tuesday afternoon, a police lieutenant said.
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three felony counts of possessing an illegal assault weapon in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose.
A 16-year-old boy charged with a hate crime for setting another teen on fire aboard an AC Transit bus in Oakland is expected to enter a plea on Friday. The teen is also expected to be represented by a high-profile attorney.
A hit-and-run suspect was killed when he drove into a tree just off of Interstate Highway 80 in Richmond Tuesday afternoon, police and California Highway Patrol officials said.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of residential burglary and attempted sexual assault after he turned up in a teenage girl's bedroom in southeast Windsor, a police sergeant said.
A father and son are in custody in California on suspicion of kidnapping the father's ex-wife to perform an exorcism.
Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with prostitution and robbery at a San Jose motel and kidnapping a pizza delivery person in October, a San Jose police spokesman said.
A Livermore man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and other charges for allegedly shooting at two acquaintances Sunday night and then crashing his car through a fence when police chased him, authorities said.
A man walking his dogs in Rincon Valley Community Park last week found two loaded, semi-automatic handguns near Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies were trying to figure out why two unknown men entered a Stockton family's home and opened fire as they slept late Friday night.
Protesters gathered in Santa Rosa and in cities throughout the Bay Area and the state to protest the police killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez in Sonoma County last month.
One person was arrested and two others remained at large after a vehicle hit a patrol car and fled the scene in Oakland early Saturday morning.
