Oakland Neighborhood Uses Crowdfunding To Pay For Private Guards
Fed up with rising crime, residents of Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood have turned to online donations to pay for private security guards.
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Fed up with rising crime, residents of Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood have turned to online donations to pay for private security guards.
A Redwood City high school student faces life in prison after a jury Wednesday found him guilty of trying to rape a teacher in a school parking lot.
The dramatic arrest inside a San Francisco public library of a man accused of running an underground drug website has become the talk of the neighborhood.
A man who was arrested at the Glen Park library in San Francisco on Tuesday on charges of running a billion-dollar online drug market is also accused of seeking two murders-for-hire in January and March of this year to protect his empire.
The maker of Photoshop and other software said Thursday that the attacker accessed customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and other information related to orders.
Habitat for Humanity is bumping up security plans for an upcoming visit by former President Jimmy Carter to an East Oakland housing development site after eight workers were robbed at gunpoint at the site on Tuesday.
Crime victims rarely invoke the rights afforded to them under Marsy's Law, and California prosecutors often ignore those who do insist on the protections that law enshrines in the state constitution.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of shooting a 14-year-old student with a BB gun at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on Wednesday, police said.
A limousine driver suffered minor injuries after an attempted carjacking Thursday morning that ended with a crash on a Mission District alley, San Francisco police said.
A video of a female hiker on a Montara Mountain trail juxtaposed with a shot of a man wearing a ski mask has frightened viewers who came across it online, leading Pacifica police to investigate the video's origin.
Police said a group of workers were robbed at gunpoint at a Habitat for Humanity site where former President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to tour in Oakland.
An Alameda auto body shop customer was in custody following the violent robbery an employee who was giving the customer a ride home – an arrest aided by the same customer returning to the shop to pick up his vehicle, according to police.
A San Jose jury on Tuesday found a former day care worker guilty of sexually abusing nine children at two facilities in San Jose, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
A man who prosecutors say hunted for a victim before randomly killing a San Francisco State University student in the city's Ingleside Heights neighborhood last week pleaded not guilty to a murder charge during his arraignment Wednesday.
The Pinole Police Department is re-examining the case of Amber Swartz, who went missing from in front of her home on Savage Avenue on June 3, 1988, police Chief John Hardester said.
The investigation into the fatal stabbing of a Dodgers fan near AT&T park last week has prompted a divide between police and the district attorney's office in San Francisco.
Under Marsy's Law, a crime victim in California has the right to be notified of all legal proceedings in a case and address the judge before a defendant makes a plea or is sentenced. All too often, however, victims never get their day in court.
A $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest of a hit and run driver who injured a 56-year-old bicyclist in Fremont in August, police said.
A man clutching what appeared to be a bomb detonator escaped with cash after robbing a bank in downtown San Mateo, according to authorities.
Tuesday marked 20 years since the kidnapping of 12-year-old Petaluma resident Polly Klaas, and her father used the grim anniversary to focus on progress that has been made in missing-child cases since then.
Two people have been charged in connection with the murder of 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine, who was shot during a sleepover at an apartment in Oakland's Dimond District on July 17.
On Tuesday, Sutter County DA Carl Adams announced he'll step down, just hours after his former lover accused police in an Associated Press article of overreaching when they counted him as a suspect in the fire investigation.
Power was restored to most of the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday as officials confirmed that the theft of copper cables from a substation caused a campus-wide outage that preceded an explosion and evacuation.
A San Mateo County sheriff's deputy has been arrested and charged with molesting an underage female relative, a deputy district attorney said Tuesday.
Police have arrested a San Francisco man in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in Antioch on Saturday night.
