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San Francisco prosecutors were looking for a former member of the notorious 'Billionaire Boys Club' accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving a taxi in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood last August.
Sheriff's deputies have found the truck of a man suspected of fatally shooting his wife and two young daughters at their rural Northern California home, while a sheriff's official says the search for the ex-convict is akin to warfare.
A Vacaville High School English and drama teacher was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a female student, police said.
Police were investigating a stabbing that occurred early Thursday morning near Doerr Park in San Jose.
In a letter to officers, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan announced on Wednesday that he is stepping down for health reasons.
The sudden retirement of Police Chief Howard Jordan derailed plans to release law enforcement expert Bill Bratton's report on cutting crime in Oakland. Despite the canceled announcement, KPIX 5 obtained a copy of the report.
Authorities are investigating the discovery of a human head found at an Oakland recycling yard Wednesday morning.
An allegedly armed suspect escaped a Hayward neighborhood Wednesday afternoon despite police shooting at him, swarming the area and searching a perimeter for over three hours, police said.
Officials with a Central California drug task force say they've seized hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in a raid of a San Joaquin Valley home.
A man was being sought Wednesday after authorities said he killed his wife and 4-year-old and 8-year-old daughters in their rural home in Shasta County Tuesday.
A person was killed and a nearby fire station was hit by gunfire during a shooting in East Oakland Tuesday night.
Someone called 911 at 12:13 p.m. to report the shooting, which happened in the 2900 block of Westboro Drive, a residential street lined with single-family homes.
Two men were stabbed on the Healdsburg High School tennis courts Tuesday night by suspects who yelled gang epithets at them, police said.
San Jose police were searching for a man who disguised himself as a building subcontractor and entered the back office of a shoe store where he robbed the manager at gunpoint last month, police said.
Les Rowe was critically injured a\in a hit-and-run accident last year and his friends and family have raised enough funds for him to be transported home in a special plane.
As Oakland prepares to hear from law enforcement expert Bill Bratton about his recommendations to fight crime, new FBI numbers show the city has the highest robbery rate in the country.
State health officials are investigating a possible security breach involving 2,000 California birth records.
A teenager who was fatally shot in East Oakland on Sunday night was identified by an Oakland Unified School District spokesman Tuesday as 17-year-old Castlemont High School senior Olajuwon Clayborn.
Bay Area kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard says the women who went missing about a decade ago and were found at a Cleveland home need a chance to heal and reconnect with the world.
A woman suspected in a series of convenience store robberies and two other people, including a pregnant woman, were arrested in San Jose early Tuesday after a brief police chase, authorities said.
Piedmont is moving forward with plans to install cameras to record the license plates of all cars that drive into town.
East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis today called the shooting of five people at a bus stop on Sunday afternoon "a cowardly act" and vowed to find those responsible.
It may take up to three weeks to test orange juice allegedly poisoned a week ago at a Starbucks in San Jose because no one knows what is in it yet, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
San Jose police are crediting a patrol strategy in East San Jose and downtown for a decline in arrests during Cince de Mayo festivities.
Five people were shot and injured at a bus stop near an East Palo Alto McDonalds restaurant in a drive-by shooting Sunday afternoon, according to police.
