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California is receiving nearly $20 million in federal grants to help hire more than 100 new law enforcement officers. Of that, Oakland will get a $4.5 million, the highest amount awarded in the country.
Police were investigating three unrelated assaults along Greek Row at the University of California at Berkeley during the weekend.
A 22-year-old exchange student from Australia suffered a severe injury to her foot in a hit-and-run accident Monday morning in Salinas.
Police have seized a cache of shaved ignition keys from a man and a woman during a traffic stop in Hercules.
The San Jose Police Department said Monday that a program implemented this summer to reduce gang-related crime has led to an overall 20 percent reduction in crime from last year.
Convicted serial killer Joseph Naso asked a Marin County jury to spare his life during his two-hour closing argument Monday afternoon.
A San Francisco parks worker who ran over and killed a young mother as she lay at a Bernal Heights park earlier this month drove away from the scene because he did not realize he had struck her, his attorney said Monday.
An Oakland resident was arrested after allegedly fleeing from police and crashing into an Oakland liquor store Sunday night, a San Leandro police lieutenant said.
A suspect was in custody after ramming a police vehicle with a stolen car in San Francisco's Bayview District Monday afternoon, police said.
At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning, and officials said several people were killed and as many as 10 were wounded, including a law enforcement officer.
The Sonoma County District Attorney's Office plans to retry a woman for murder in connection with a road rage crash that killed a Santa Rosa man last year.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson for allegedly setting a fire on the dock of Gashouse Cove in San Francisco's Marina District last week, police said Monday.
San Francisco police were trying to find out who drilled open an ATM and stole the cash from inside it in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood Sunday morning.
A man was in critical condition after being shot in Oakland Sunday night, a police officer said Monday.
A Petaluma man was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of setting a woman's car on fire in connection with a domestic violence case, according to police.
Police are searching for an armed carjacker who forced his victim to withdraw cash from an ATM machine in Suisun City on Saturday morning.
The husband of a woman who was fatally run over in a San Francisco park says he's focused on how to honor his wife and be a single dad.
A woman was texting on her cellphone while walking on the Ohlone Greenway between Wall and Conlon avenues in El Cerrito when a man walking the opposite direction on the path attacked her.
Santa Clara County authorities have arrested four men in connection with a home-invasion robbery that led to an intensive manhunt and school lockdowns in East San Jose.
The testimony at the penalty phase of Joseph Naso's quadruple murder trial in Marin County Superior Court ended late Friday afternoon with a woman, who believes Naso drugged her during a modeling photography session, stating she does not want him put to death.
A 25-year-old man is facing assault charges for an unprovoked attack on another patron at San Francisco's main library branch on Wednesday.
One person has been arrested after a shooting injured an innocent bystander Friday afternoon near the 12th Street Bay Area Rapid Transit station.
A woman who was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband at their Napa home early Thursday morning has been identified as 41-year-old Esperanza Robledo Vega, police said Friday.
A 62-year-old Los Gatos man is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge after authorities say he fired a warning shot that killed a fleeing car thief suspect.
A Salinas man was sentenced Thursday to 79 years in prison for sexual crimes against his teenage stepdaughter over a four-year period.
