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Bay Area law enforcement agencies are releasing details about a sting targeting underage prostitutes last week that was part of the national, five-day Operation Cross Country headed by the FBI that ended Sunday.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday cleared the way for a trial on two civil rights lawsuits filed against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and other officers by the father of Oscar Grant III and five of Grant's friends.
A memorial service was held Tuesday for Alaysha Carradine, an 8-year-old girl who was fatally shot while she was at a friend's house in East Oakland for a sleepover earlier this month.
Police were searching for a group of vandals who smashed the windows of 13 cars in Newark on Sunday night.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at the site of a marijuana grow operation at a residence in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley early Tuesday morning, according to a fire dispatcher.
Authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others in a three-day law enforcement sweep in 76 U.S. cities. The largest numbers of children rescued were in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the FBI.
A man died in Rohnert Park on Sunday night when he was thrown from a moving SUV that had just been stolen by his brother, a police sergeant said.
A 20-year-old man was arrested and four others are being sought for a stabbing that seriously injured a man in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Monday morning, a police spokesman said.
A building on San Francisco's Market Street that houses American Red Cross offices was evacuated Monday morning because of a bomb threat.
A Kenwood man was arrested for intentionally hitting another man with his pickup truck during an altercation Sunday afternoon, Sonoma County sheriff's officials said.
An 18-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving two weeks after a fatal crash that killed a Dublin woman and left her husband injured
Stuart James Forrest, 61, was found guilty of two counts of possession of child pornography, according to Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for the attorney general.
A woman sleeping in her bedroom was sexually assaulted early Friday morning by a man who broke into her Santa Clara apartment, according to police.
A 19-year-old Dartmouth College student has turned himself in to police after a woman working with a film crew at his fraternity complained a man had urinated on her from a second-floor balcony.
A transient was arrested Wednesday in Belmont in connection with a bank robbery in Redwood City the day before, a Redwood City police lieutenant said Thursday.
A high-speed chase ended in a collision on state Highway 4 in Martinez early Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Two men suspected of driving away with another man in the truck of their car were arrested after a short police pursuit in Napa Thursday afternoon, police said.
A suspect in a May fatal shooting previously believed to be attempting to flee to the Central Valley or Mexico turned himself in to San Jose police Wednesday, police said Thursday.
Three men were found shot near an intersection just outside of Salinas Thursday afternoon, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.
SWAT officers could not locate a suspect thought to be barricaded inside a home that was the scene of a home invasion robbery in Fremont Thursday evening, Fremont police said.
Authorities said a 15-year-old girl was forced to work on a marijuana grow and sexually abused by two men in Northern California who allegedly locked her in a metal toolbox for days.
The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at UC Davis is appealing for worker's compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 incident.
66-year-old Judy Salamon was shot and killed while she was driving a few blocks from her home on Fern Street in the Fairfax neighborhood. Police said shots were fired into her car around 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon, sending it rolling down a hill and crashing into a parked vehicle.
Police were reviewing surveillance video on Thursday while investigating the fatal shooting of a 66-year-old woman as she was driving a few blocks from her home in a quiet Oakland neighborhood.
A retired Golden Gate Transit bus driver who was arrested for allegedly stealing a Golden Gate Transit bus in Novato on Tuesday has been released from Marin County Jail pending the filing of charges against him.
