Kidnapping Attempt Likely Not Linked To NorCal Girl's Murder
Investigators say a brazen kidnapping attempt not far from where an 8-year-old Calaveras County girl was stabbed to death in her home most likely is a bizarre coincidence.
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Investigators say a brazen kidnapping attempt not far from where an 8-year-old Calaveras County girl was stabbed to death in her home most likely is a bizarre coincidence.
Oregon State Police say a man arrested after a crime spree in Marin County is the prime suspect in the murder of a woman whose body was found near Winchester Bay.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation expanding the ability of state agents to seize firearms from nearly 20,000 Californians who are not allowed to have them.
Police ordered a San Jose office building evacuated Wednesday morning as a bomb squad investigated a suspicious package.
While under federal court oversight, California's prison mental health system has been spending far more on anti-psychotic drugs than other states with large prison systems.
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of auto theft after barricading himself inside a motel room in Fremont for more than three hours, police said.
Two people have been arrested in connection with several recent purse thefts in Sonoma and Napa counties, a Sonoma County sheriff's sergeant said.
Police were attempting to locate two men who robbed a check-cashing store in Pinole at gunpoint on Monday.
The National Park Service might ask the Marin County District Attorney's Office to file charges against a 16-year-old boy who allegedly broke into a World War II bunker in the Marin Headlands on Sunday and fell 35 feet down a ventilation shaft.
Police were trying to determine if there's a link between a man accused of breaking into an apartment in Placerville and trying to kidnap a toddler, and the killing of an 8-year-old girl about 45 miles away in Calaveras County.
San Jose police were investigating a the motives of a female suspect who placed orange juice mixed with rubbing alcohol on a refrigerated shelf at a Starbucks coffee shop on Monday afternoon.
Emergency responders in Danville can now communicate nearly instantaneously with more than 40 other public agencies throughout the Bay Area during emergencies.
After pressure from human rights organizations and health officials, a decision was made by the San Francisco's District Attorney to no longer allow condoms as evidence in cases of prostitution.
An independent monitor says the Oakland Police Department is making a "slight improvement" in meeting reforms that were mandated in the settlement of a police brutality lawsuit a decade ago.
Authorities in Northern California say the slaying of an 8-year-old girl at her home does not appear to have stemmed from a botched robbery or other crime gone wrong.
Two children whom slain Silicon Valley venture capitalist Raveesh "Ravi" Kumra fathered with a former prostitute have a valid claim on the millionaire's estate, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Students were able to return to classes at the Venetia Valley K-8 School in Santa Venetia late Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was called into the campus, authorities said.
Consumers may want to think twice before purchasing gift cards. A new scam proves that crooks are getting more sophisticated and the old protections just aren't working any more.
A 74-year-old man was critically injured in an attack that followed a traffic collision in San Francisco's Bayview District on Monday evening, police said Tuesday.
Two sisters who are accused of binding babies with blankets during naptime at a Livermore child care facility have pleaded not guilty to child abuse and neglect charges.
A man was beaten unconscious after leaving a bar in Belmont early Monday morning, police said.
Police said a man arrested for two carjackings in the North Bay was a Boston bombing sympathizer intent on reaching the Russian consulate in San Francisco. But his plan to seek asylum at the consulate came to a screeching halt.
A region of oak-studded hills in Calaveras County was on lockdown on Monday, two days after a mysterious intruder stabbed an 8-year-old girl to death at home before being spotted by her 12-year-old brother.
The state is caught between a tight budget and its "three strikes" law, which imposes a life sentence after convictions. Last Fall voters approved a plan to release some of those lifers.
A first-of-its-kind conference in Redwood City on Monday sought to address school shootings and looks for solutions in how to prevent them.
