Berkeley Chief's Message To Reporter Upsets Police Union
Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has been apologizing for ordering his department's spokeswoman to go to a Bay Area News Group reporter's home to request changes to an article.
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Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has been apologizing for ordering his department's spokeswoman to go to a Bay Area News Group reporter's home to request changes to an article.
Little league baseball equipment was stolen from a storage shed in Petaluma over the weekend, police said.
A 23-year-old man who struck and killed a woman with his bicycle in San Francisco last summer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge Monday and was sentenced to three years' probation.
In the beginning of the year, it seemed as if police were regularly and routinely being called to certain night spots in the downtown area on reports of shootings, fights and robberies.
Police found the girl at another location in Oakland, but determined that she had been shot in the 2200 block of East 12th Street at around 1 a.m. Monday.
Residents are concerned that Parkmerced management is not not doing enough to prevent the crimes from occurring.
A victim was shot twice while walking on an Oakland street shortly after midnight Sunday, police said.
Defense attorneys for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Friday made a motion to have a key piece of video evidence excluded from his upcoming trial on domestic violence charges.
Officers responded to reports of shots fired near 23rd and Shotwell streets around 7:20 p.m. and found a man suffering from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle.
Fairfield police have identified three men suspected of killing two men in the Parkway Garden neighborhood on Wednesday.
A former East Bay college professor was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to 37 years and six months in prison for sexually abusing an infant in Missouri in 2009.
Atul Lall reported to authorities and the press that he was the victim of a hate crime when he was badly beaten on Nov. 21, 2011.
An amber alert has been issued for two girls believed to have been abducted from Willows, California. The children may be traveling with their mother's boyfriend, and heading toward the Santa Rosa area, according to Willows police.
A masked man that entered a CVS store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood Friday morning left before police officers arrived and surrounded the building for hours, police said.
A Granite Bay woman allegedly led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase covering more than 100 miles Friday morning before she was finally stopped in Sunol, a CHP spokesman said.
Police Chief Michael Meehan said he thinks his officers responded appropriately to the situation that led to the death of 67-year-old business management consultant Peter Cukor outside his home on Feb. 18.
Two people were injured in a stabbing in San Francisco's Mission District Thursday night, police said.
Fairfield police have identified the two victims from Wednesday's double fatal shooting as 24-year-old Vedell Jamar Chew and 18-year-old Bernard Francis Knight
A handful of Bay Area residents are reporting they've been scammed by on-line sellers offering discounted tickets to Disneyland. The suspect ads all appeared on Craigslist in the past month.
A San Leandro man has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing a man whose body was found in a burning house in unincorporated Hayward in November, Alameda County sheriff's officials said Thursday.
One person has been arrested and a man is in a hospital after a stabbing in Oakland Thursday morning that started with a family dispute, police said.
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to 51 years and 8 months in state prison for shooting into an apartment in San Leandro last September where his girlfriend and her young son were living.
A decision could be made as soon as Friday on whether a key piece of video evidence will be admissible in the upcoming domestic violence trial against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
