Police Detonate Live Pipe Bomb After San Jose Traffic Stop; Driver Arrested
Police detonated a live pipe bomb found in a car during a traffic stop in San Jose Wednesday night.
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Police detonated a live pipe bomb found in a car during a traffic stop in San Jose Wednesday night.
Police were investigating an armed robbery that took place in a residential neighborhood in Foster City on Tuesday evening.
A Napa man was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of burglarizing six residences, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's St. Helena house twice, a Napa County sheriff's captain said.
San Francisco police arrested a second suspect Wednesday in the destruction of a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus following last month's Giants' World Series win.
Multiple agencies throughout Alameda County conducted a sexually-exploited children recovery and prostitution out call operation in Newark and made eight arrests Thursday, a Newark police sergeant said.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging California's new voter-approved law to boost penalties for those convicted of human trafficking.
Sacramento County authorities said they have arrested a homeowner who fatally shot a suspected burglar and wounded another intruder.
A jury on Wednesday found Nathan Burris guilty of slaying two people at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza in 2009, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office reported.
California voters have decided to retain the death penalty for the state's worst criminals, rejecting the argument that too few death row inmates are executed to justify the cost.
A domestic dispute turned violent when brothers stabbed each other in a hotel room in San Francisco on Tuesday evening, a police officer said.
Having tried and failed before to abolish California's death penalty on moral grounds, capital punishment foes took a new tack this election season: state finances.
The nation's harshest three strikes law has been reformed to allow for shorter sentences for some offenders.
California will toughen its penalties for human trafficking and its monitoring of sex offenders under an initiative approved Tuesday.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors honored bus driver Alan Yam with a proclamation for keeping his eight passengers safe and evacuating them from the bus before it was destroyed by fire.
Police are searching for at least two suspects who got away with thousands of dollars in cigarettes this morning in Benicia, a police lieutenant said.
Authorities said two more people have died after being shot at a Fresno chicken processing plant, bringing the death toll to three.
Officers in Petaluma had to use a Taser early Monday to subdue and arrest a man who led police on a 100 mph chase after they attempted to stop a pickup truck identified as stolen, a sergeant said Tuesday.
San Francisco's top prosecutor wants to bring the same sort of technology he used to track crime while serving as police chief to the district attorney's office.
A Belmont man was arrested early Monday morning after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend in their home and prevented her from calling police for nearly six hours, police said.
Police arrested one suspect Monday and were asking for the public's help in identifying a second suspect who pepper sprayed and tried to rob a hearing-impaired foreign exchange student on a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus last month.
Three women were arrested Monday evening in connection with the death of an infant at a San Rafael childcare facility last month, according to police.
A double murder defendant has told a Martinez jury to convict him quickly so he can see "Monday Night Football" at the jailhouse.
Sheriff's officials are investigating a possible attempted kidnapping of a five-year-old boy who was playing in front of his house near Menlo Park on Saturday.
A jury on Monday convicted a former San Jose principal of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child by a teacher. Lyn Vijayendran, 36, was found guilty of the misdemeanor after jurors deliberated for two days.
Police arrested four teenage boys Sunday on suspicion of going on an overnight crime spree that included stealing an SUV, credit cards and other valuables, according to police.
