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The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office has declined to file charges pending further investigation in the case of a San Francisco police officer who was arrested last week on suspicion of child molestation in Concord, a prosecutor said Friday.
A man and woman were found dead inside their Pinole home early Friday morning and a relative also living in the home has been arrested on suspicion of murder, a police commander said.
Authorities have linked a sixth killing to a former photographer facing a possible death sentence for the murders of four Northern California women.
UC Davis Police Chief Matt Carmichael says someone wrote a racial slur on a chalkboard inside a campus building as part of an incident on Sunday that included the smashing of car and campus building windows.
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed three judges to the Santa Clara and Monterey county superior courts on Thursday.
Authorities say a San Jose elementary school substitute teacher has been arrested after more than 2,000 images of child pornography were found at his home.
The Solano County courthouse in Vallejo was closed for nearly four and a half hours Thursday due to a bomb threat that ultimately proved to be a hoax.
Solano County sheriff's deputies have arrested 17 sex offenders for alleged parole and probation violations during a weeklong countywide sweep, according to a sheriff's spokesman.
A notorious "snake scam" has slithered its way into San Mateo and Burlingame, prompting police there to join the hunt.
A San Francisco police officer was arrested in Concord last week for alleged child molestation, Concord police said Thursday.
A woman who was critically injured by a suspected drunk driver in Danville last week has died from her injuries, according to police and the Contra Costa County coroner's office.
Thirteen people are under arrest on suspicion of being part of an abalone poaching network after fish and game wardens served search warrants on 14 locations.
San Francisco's police chief said Thursday that a big-rig driver has been found at fault in a collision that killed a bicyclist in the city's South of Market neighborhood earlier this month.
A man who was shot by U.S. Park Police after he was identified as a suspect in the fatal stabbing of his mother in a Marin City apartment has been charged by the Marin County District Attorney's Office.
A chaotic scene in Menlo Park on Wednesday night resulted in a victim shot, a police officer injured and a suspect behind bars on suspicion of attempted murder.
A woman who embezzled $320,000 from a state agency was later hired by California's High-Speed Rail Authority -- and she says nobody asked about her background.
Police in Salinas arrested a man who they believe burglarized a pizza restaurant Wednesday morning.
62-year-old Christopher Hubbart -- a convicted serial rapist who has admitted to raping and sexually assaulting 38 women in California between 1971 and 1982 -- will be released as soon as housing is found.
Police in Richmond announced Wednesday that a months-long operation involving wiretaps has led to the arrests of nearly two dozen alleged members of one of the city's most violent gangs.
African American boys are arrested in Oakland more often and for minor offenses compared to other racial groups according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union.
A 25-year-old man was arrested after a shooting near Beverly Hills Elementary School in Vallejo Wednesday morning, police said.
A federal jury began deliberating in San Francisco Wednesday in the case of a former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy accused of arranging three so-called "dirty DUI" arrests in Danville in 2010 and 2011.
California Gov. Jerry Brown is dismissing a proposal by Democratic allies in the state Senate, who want to seek a settlement of a federal lawsuit that could force the state to free thousands of prison inmates later this year.
Police shot and killed a man in Antioch on Tuesday after he allegedly led them on a chase and pointed a handgun at officers, a police captain said Wednesday morning.
Police are searching for a masked gunman who robbed a McDonald's restaurant in Pleasanton via the drive-through window early Wednesday morning.
