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The Santa Cruz Police Department is offering $12,500 in rewards for information on three crimes -- a murder, an attempted murder and a violent armed robbery -- that happened over a four-day span earlier this month.
Law enforcement agencies have begun adopting a new policy on so-called "active shooters," encouraging civilians to take safety into their own hands and take down gunmen who threaten them at work or school.
A Santa Cruz family who were the victims of a home invasion robbery Wednesday morning turned the tables on their attackers, according to authorities.
The hiring of the additional officers comes after many area police departments, including Oakland and San Jose, lost nearly 1,000 officers when the economy began to decline about five years ago.
A suspect wanted by San Leandro police for an incident involving a fight with an officer on Valentine's Day was arrested in Hayward Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The grieving family of a 10-month-old Castroville girl found dead Tuesday plans to hold her funeral in Salinas on Monday and her Mass and burial the next day, the girl's grandmother said Wednesday.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday released photos of two possible associates of a Colorado man who has been arrested for allegedly killing three men during a marijuana deal near Forestville earlier this month.
Police have released sketches of two of three suspects in a violent robbery at a home in Pleasant Hill earlier this month.
A man was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in San Francisco's Cathedral Hill neighborhood late Saturday night, police said Wednesday.
The Oakland City Council approved spending $162,000 for two more months of the extra patrols.
The crime problem facing Oakland has crept into Mayor Jean Quan's own backyard. Neighbors told KPIX 5 they are frustrated and plan to hire a private guard to improve security.
Monterey County sheriff's investigators have located the body of a 10-month-old girl who was reported missing earlier this month, and have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering her.
California prisons hire full-time chaplains and spiritual leaders to serve Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant and Native American inmates.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding out who fatally shot a 23-year-old man near San Francisco's Alamo Square in early February.
San Jose police arrested 14 people in two prostitution stings last week and rescued a 16-year-old girl who said she started working as a prostitute at age 11, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
A Livermore mother sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with two underage boys is back behind bars after being arrested on an alleged parole violation.
One victim was injured in a shooting on Fruitvale Avenue in East Oakland early Tuesday morning, according to police.
Internet hackers took over fast food chain Burger King's Twitter feed early Monday. Changing the Burger King logo and user name to that of competitor McDonald's, the hacker or hackers were posting throughout the morning.
Police in Hillsborough are asking residents two be vigilant after two separate burglaries were reported in the city on Valentines Day.
A Santa Cruz man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly left a camera containing a picture of himself at the scene of a burglary, police said.
Police released a sketch Friday of a man who attacked a female victim on Feb. 2 on Bartlett Street between 22nd and 23rd streets around 1 a.m.
A Santa Clara man was charged Friday with possessing assault weapons, explosives and bomb-making materials after the California Highway Patrol tracked an emailed death threat to Democratic state Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco.
Fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner hid in a mountain condominium as a door-to-door manhunt took place outside and, after he finally made his break, apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head amid a fiery battle with police.
Two men were injured when they were attacked with a hatchet during a home invasion robbery in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood on Thursday night, police said Friday.
A San Jose High School student stabbed to death near the campus Wednesday was identified as 17-year-old Anthony Daniel Santa Cruz, the San Jose Police Department said Friday.
