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A water polo coach at a San Mateo high school accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexual assault charges, prosecutors said.
Benicia police arrested a Martinez man Thursday for allegedly ramming his ex-girlfriend's Volkswagen Beetle with his Nissan pickup truck.
A woman driving a suspected stolen car in San Leandro tried to run from a traffic stop on Thursday night but quickly crashed into a tree and then a house, police said.
Scott Peterson on Thursday filed the automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supreme Court, maintaining as he always has that he had nothing to do with the murders of his wife Laci and unborn son Connor.
A San Francisco man was acquitted Thursday of assaulting a retired South Bay priest who he claimed had molested him decades ago as a boy.
As the San Francisco Ethics Commission considers the fate of suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Mayor Ed Lee's sworn testimony is being challenged by some vocal adversaries.
A San Jose family is facing felony charges for severe neglect of a dozen mentally disabled adults who were living at the San Jose home on the pretense of receiving adult care.
An Oakland man on parole for human trafficking is in custody on suspicion of DUI and weapons charges following a high-speed crash and shooting on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge early Thursday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
Two men accused in the fatal shooting of a Los Angeles-area man who was allegedly pimping a teenage girl pleaded not guilty to murder charges in a San Francisco courtroom Thursday afternoon.
Search efforts for missing Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar are the focus of two new short documentary films about the case created by a local independent filmmaker.
A four-alarm arson fire that burned four homes in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood early Tuesday caused nearly $1 million in damage, a fire department spokeswoman said Thursday.
A bicyclist was killed by a hit-and-run driver in East Oakland on Wednesday night, police said.
Police have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing that left another man seriously injured in East Palo Alto on Wednesday night.
Police in San Francisco seized dozens of homemade explosives at the home of a Mission District resident Tuesday afternoon.
Supporters and family members of a man charged with assaulting a priest he says molested him decades ago resumed their daily lunch-time demonstrations Tuesday outside a San Jose courthouse where jurors were trying to reach a verdict.
Dozens of people have been arrested in Oakland on drug, weapons and murder charges following a sweep by local and federal authorities.
A Sonoma man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of frost-prevention sprinklers from vineyards in Sonoma County, a Sonoma County sheriff's sergeant said.
A suspicious four-alarm fire in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood damaged four homes and displaced 10 people early Tuesday morning.
A bicyclist was chased and robbed of a high-end bicycle and gold necklace in the Oakland Hills last Friday.
A man was injured in a shooting in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood early Tuesday morning, police said.
A woman was shot by one of three people who forced her inside her Union City home at gunpoint on Monday night, police said.
A group of fishermen could be in trouble after a video posted on YouTube shows a protected green sturgeon being yanked from the dark waters of the Delta.
A Petaluma man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Mondahy afternoon for fatally shooting his wife in their home in 2010.
A 15-year-old Fairfield boy is in juvenile hall after allegedly stabbing his stepfather five times in what police said was an attempt to protect his mother.
The parents of a former University of California at Berkeley student have filed suit against a former university doctor, alleging that their son committed suicide because he had been sexually molested by the doctor.
