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Several male teens assaulted another male teen Sunday in a suspected gang-related robbery attempt in East San Jose during the first weekend of an anti-gang program by San Jose police, a spokesman said Monday.
One of two people shot at a bus stop in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood Monday afternoon has died, police said.
An inmate who was found dead in the Marin County Jail on Friday was identified Monday morning as Jeffrey Griffin Boyce, a suspect in the Oregon murder of a Castro Valley woman in April.
San Jose police had forty extra officers on duty over the weekend to curb the recent spike of violent crime and they said they are bracing for the summer which historically is a time when violent crime rises along the season's temperatures.
An East Palo Alto woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at their home last year is set to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing.
A Santa Rosa taxi driver drove to the Sonoma County jail for help while he was allegedly being attacked by an unruly passenger, police said Sunday.
A BART station agent is being charged for filing a false police report that led to a man being jailed. BART claims the agent filed the report to pressure the agency in contract negotiations with unions.
A burglary suspect who barricaded himself in a West Oakland home for about four hours Friday has surrendered, police said.
The San Jose Police Department Friday announced a new plan to deploy extra officers this summer to suppress gang violence that has claimed eight lives this year, including a teen boy on Thursday.
Police evacuated residents and searched for a gunman at an apartment complex after a man was fatally shot in Richmond Friday morning, a police lieutenant said.
Federal authorities Thursday asked for the public's help in finding a man who scammed a San Francisco educational software company and is wanted for mail fraud charges.
James Quindale Page, 42, dubbed by authorities as the "Button Down Bandit," was indicted by a federal grand jury in Oakland on Thursday on six counts of bank robbery. Each count carries a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if he is convicted.
Alameda County's chief probation officer is expressing uncertainty over the release of state prison inmates ordered by federal courts.
A 16-year-old boy who escaped Solano County juvenile hall in March was arrested Wednesday after crashing into two vehicles during a California Highway Patrol pursuit.
Police arrested a woman on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after she allegedly crashed a car into a residence in Santa Rosa on Thursday night.
A teen boy who was beaten by a mob and shot in the head in San Jose on Wednesday evening died at the hospital on Thursday. Police said the death is gang-related and will increase patrols.
A man was injured in a shooting in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood late Thursday night, according to police.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Grand Lake Theater near Oakland's Lake Merritt Thursday evening for a private screening of the film "Fruitvale Station" which depicts the last 24 hours in the life of Oscar Grant III.
Oakland Interim Police Chief Sean Whent said Thursday that his department's new neighborhood policing plan is aimed at being more efficient in reducing the city's high crime rate.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday he will ask the courts to stay what he calls an "unprecedented order" to release nearly 10,000 prison inmates by year's end.
A Stockton man was sentenced Wednesday for the death of his live-in girlfriend whose body was found in a trash can in Pleasanton amid allegations by prosecutors that he may have killed other women prior.
Authorities have arrested a 72-year-old man in connection with a stolen car found burning with three bodies inside in rural Northern California.
A man suspected of committing several recent commercial burglaries in the Sonoma area was arrested early Wednesday morning, police said.
An 18-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal a laptop from a school in Fremont on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
A Central Coast strawberry farmer has agreed to pay a fine and destroy some of his berries after state regulators found he used an illegal pesticide on them.
