Convicted Murderer Pleads No Contest To 1996 Alameda Murders
In an unusual move, a man has pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree murder for killing two people in their homes in Alameda nearly 16 years ago.
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In an unusual move, a man has pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree murder for killing two people in their homes in Alameda nearly 16 years ago.
There are growing concerns following yet another homicide in the city on Tuesday night, the 31st so far this year.
A man was killed in a stabbing inside a San Jose Safeway store Tuesday night, according to police. The killing is San Jose's 31st homicide of the year.
A state assemblywoman representing the San Jose area said violence is becoming "out of control" in a letter to the city's chief of police Tuesday on the heels of the city's 30th homicide of the year.
Police in Palo Alto on Tuesday released a sketch of a suspect who reached up a woman's dress and grabbed her buttocks on Monday.
A San Mateo County woman from the coastal town of El Granada was arrested Sunday after she allegedly hit her sister-in-law on the head with an abalone shell, a sheriff's lieutenant said.
Operation Ceasefire has been credited with helping to significantly reduce crime in New York and other cities since it was implemented.
A store in San Francisco's Richmond District was robbed at gunpoint late Monday night, police said Tuesday.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a commercial building in Santa Rosa on Monday night that was related to a marijuana grow operation, fire officials said.
A shooting victim sustained a gunshot wound after shots were fired near Verdese Carter Park in East Oakland Monday night, according to police.
Dual investigations by the City of Oakland and the Federal Communication Commission have determined AT&T cellphone towers are responsible for the interference plaguing the Oakland Police radio system.
A man was hospitalized in a second shooting in San Jose Tuesday night, less than an hour after another man was fatally shot, police said.
A man accused of burglarizing the Palo Alto home of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared in court Monday but did not enter a plea.
A man wanted in the shooting death of his girlfriend at her Emeryville home was arrested in Chico last week, police said Monday.
A former Sonoma County resident was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison this morning for the murder of an adult bookstore clerk 28 years ago.
One person was shot to death in Oakland early Monday morning, a police officer said.
Three people were injured when they were pistol-whipped in an armed robbery in East Oakland Sunday night, a police officer said.
Two people were arrested after trying to break into a BevMo store in Oakland overnight, according to police.
Two cars collided head-on on southbound U.S. Highway 101 northwest of Petaluma early Sunday morning after a Santa Rosa man drove the wrong way on the freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A man who was shot in San Jose on Sunday night remained hospitalized with potentially life-threatening injuries Monday morning, a police officer said.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Friday said it will not issue a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, which will ultimately decide Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's fate sometime this fall.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office arrested a Mendocino County man for robbery and other offenses after a pursuit along state Highway 1 on the Sonoma Coast Friday afternoon.
Union City police said Friday that they are investigating what caused the death of a man whose body was found at a park Thursday morning.
After Thursday's vote by the Ethics Commission upholding misconduct charges, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said he can convince at least three supervisors to let him keep his job and is nowhere near conceding.
A parolee with a history of violence, weapons and sex offenses has escaped from a peninsula mental health hospital, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff.
