KCBS In Depth: California Voters To Decide On Death Penalty
A look at the pros and cons of Proposition 34, which could end California's death penalty.
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A look at the pros and cons of Proposition 34, which could end California's death penalty.
The thinning ranks of the San Jose Police Department will soon be getting some much needed reinforcements, as the department begins its first police academy in nearly three years.
A man accused of smashing the windshield of a Muni bus last week after the Giants' World Series victory pleaded not guilty to felony vandalism charges, but his attorney said that he acknowledges responsibility for the incident.
Police have arrested a suspect in a weekend shooting in San Jose that claimed the life of a 22-year-old man.
Two people charged in connection with a shooting near a Halloween party at San Francisco's Fort Mason pleaded not guilty Monday.
San Francisco Municipal Railway is out about $1 million because its insurance does not cover the damage caused by vandals who set a bus on fire during revelry after the Giants' World Series win, a Muni spokesman said Monday.
A man was critically injured in an attack outside a bar in San Francisco's Inner Richmond neighborhood early Sunday morning, police said Monday.
A fire that badly damaged a Pleasant Hill nail salon late Sunday night started when some sort of object was thrown through one of the windows of the business, a fire official said.
Police officers shot and killed a domestic violence suspect in Fremont late Sunday night while he allegedly pursued his estranged wife with a knife, a police spokeswoman said.
San Jose police determined that a fatal shooting Saturday morning took place outdoors on the 1500 block of Kooser Road in South San Jose.
Four people were shot in Menlo Park Friday evening, with one victim suffering from life-threatening injuries, according to Menlo Park police.
A string of boat thefts near Bethel Island over the past month has prompted the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office to increase patrols in the area.
An Oakland man was sentenced Friday to the death penalty for murdering three people in a shooting in 2005 and killing a fourth person in 1997.
Jurors began deliberating Friday morning in the trial of a San Jose elementary school principal accused of failing to report the suspected sexual abuse of a child by a teacher.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in tracking down two suspects believed to have stolen more than $7,500 from a 7-Eleven in Half Moon Bay on Monday.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and Supervisor David Campos joined forces Thursday to discuss ways the city is trying to quell recent violence in the Mission District.
Shoplifters played a major trick on Victoria's Secret clerks this Halloween, robbing the Stanford Shopping Center store of 180 bras, according to Palo Alto Weekly.
A Novato man was robbed and assaulted in his home early Wednesday morning by three women, one of them dressed as a fairy and another wearing military fatigues, a Novato police sergeant said.
The San Francisco Police Department is searching for a man suspected in an attack on a Muni station agent last month that was captured on surveillance video.
Nathan Burris told a jury in Martinez today that he has no regrets about murdering his ex-girlfriend and her friend at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza on Aug. 11, 2009, and said he still feels hatred for the victims.
A steady stream of mourners stopped by an East Oakland cellphone store Thursday to pay tribute to 50-year-old owner Wilbur Bartley, who was fatally shot during an apparent robbery Wednesday night.
Death penalty opponents in California are trying a new argument this year: Abolish capital punishment because the perpetually cash-strapped state just can't afford it.
A Marin County Superior Court jury convicted a Petaluma man Wednesday of the attempted shooting murder of a 90-year-old man in his Greenbrae home in January.
A man waiting at a Marin City bus stop was robbed at gunpoint on Wednesday evening, according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office.
A new policy in Alameda County is instructing prosecutors to consider filing lesser criminal charges for some legal immigrants in an effort to avoid mandatory deportation.
