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A partnership agreement was signed Thursday by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and leaders of local community organizations dedicated to ending youth human trafficking.
Democrats who control the state Legislature revealed 10 proposals that they said would make California the most restrictive state for possessing firearms.
Sonoma County law enforcement officials say they're increasingly involved with trying to solve a type of crime that barely existed a few years ago that centers around marijuana.
Last year's domestic violence scandal involving San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi could translate into more money for the city's domestic violence programs when it goes before the board of supervisors.
Two Bay Point men were arrested Wednesday after leading police on a multi-county car chase that began as a Livemore home burglary, a police sergeant said. A third man was also arrested in a separate Livermore burglary.
A woman was found critically injured from an apparent attack in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood on Wednesday night according to police.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents recently seized roughly 2,300 rounds of ammunition and the cars used to try to smuggle them out of the country from the Port of Oakland, an agency spokesman said Thursday.
Four women were cited on suspicion of prostitution Tuesday a block from the San Jose Police Department's property and evidence facility, police said.
The suspect in the murder of an East Palo Alto community leader was released from custody this week, over the objections of prosecutors who say he confessed to the crime.
Police were searching Thursday for 33-year-old Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, after he was named a suspect Wednesday night in a double homicide in Irvine.
A brother, sister and their mother were shot during a home invasion in Vallejo early Thursday morning, a police lieutenant said.
A man sustained a gunshot wound to his foot in San Francisco's Tenderloin district Wednesday afternoon, police said.
A Daly City woman has been charged with forging the signatures of about 80 San Jose city officials and their spouses, including four City Council members, on petitions for a ballot measure on that passed in November, prosecutors said.
A handcuffed suspect escaped from San Jose police Wednesday afternoon by stealing a police van while his arresting officer was doing paperwork, police said.
San Francisco police are renewing an investigation into a man briefly detained decades ago in connection with the high-profile disappearance of a 10-year-old boy in 1984.
Three men were fatally shot at a Forestville home as a result of a marijuana drug deal gone bad, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning.
Police have identified three suspects wanted in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old man at a Pittsburg gas station last week, a police lieutenant said Wednesday.
Fairfield Police remained tight-lipped as they try to solve the murder of a 13-year-old girl whose nude body was found in a city park Friday.
The San Jose Police Officers Association is asking for a 16 percent raise over the next three years, in part to keep officers in the department.
Authorities say a California official who was yelling about the price of a milkshake at a Foster's Freeze shop is facing a misdemeanor charge after he challenged a bystander who tried to intercede to a fight.
A homeless hitchhiker armed with a hatchet is being credited with saving lives after stopping a man who apparently believed he was Jesus from attacking people.
A man was wounded in a shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday night, police said.
Sonoma County authorities said crime scene investigators will be searching a rural Sonoma County home for clues throughout the night after three men were found shot to death in the home Tuesday.
A pair of suspected burglars was arrested after allegedly using a Contra Costa Times subscriber vacation list to target and burglarize at least one home in Walnut Creek, police said Tuesday.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office didn't file any charges against 19-year-old Donald Parks Jr. for the shooting of 18-year-old Kiante Campbell of Oakland.
