Change Of Venue Request, Appeal On Video Put Mirkarimi Trial On Hold
Dueling legal maneuvers put the hold on jury selection Monday in the domestic violence case against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
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Dueling legal maneuvers put the hold on jury selection Monday in the domestic violence case against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
A pedestrian was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood early Saturday morning, police said.
The tires on more than 50 vehicles were slashed overnight in Palo Alto, but no one seems to have seen or heard anything while the vandalism was taking place, police said Monday.
California Highway Patrol officers detained two carjacking suspects after a chase through Oakland early Monday morning.
One person was shot in the foot while getting off a San Francisco Municipal Railway train in the city's Oceanview neighborhood on Sunday night, police said.
San Leandro police have arrested three more suspects who were allegedly involved in an October 2011 triple homicide.
Federal drug agents said they have seized an estimated $34 million worth of methamphetamine from a San Jose apartment.
An appeals court has ordered that an infamous Chowchilla bus kidnapper be immediately released from prison, unless state officials appeal the decision.
California prisons marked a milestone Friday, when officials said they had removed the last of nearly 20,000 beds that had been jammed into gymnasiums and other common areas to house inmates who overflowed traditional prison cells.
Contra Costa County prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty against a Richmond man charged with fatally shooting a Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll taker and her friend.
Two people have been arrested in connection with a shooting in Oakland on Thursday that has left a 16-year-old boy in critical condition, police said Friday.
A hearing held Friday to determine whether an ex-girlfriend of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi can testify in his upcoming trial on domestic violence charges was continued to Monday because his defense attorney had to leave for a prior commitment.
A man found dead on a street in San Francisco's Mission District last month was apparently strangled, a police spokesman said Friday.
San Rafael police were asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in a series of armed robberies at Terra Linda area gas stations.
A woman was slashed in the face with a meat cleaver at a residential hotel in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Thursday evening.
Police dispatch tapes show officers didn't immediately respond to a Berkeley man's nonemergency call about an intruder before the homeowner was bludgeoned to death with a ceramic pot.
Opponents of capital punishment announced Thursday that they have gathered nearly 800,000 signatures for a November ballot initiative that would repeal the death penalty in California and replace it with life in prison without parole.
Six employees at a Peninsula school are facing disciplinary action after district officials said they failed to report allegations of abuse against a special-education teacher.
A former youth counselor in Martinez has been sentenced to 29 years in federal prison following his conviction on child pornography charges.
A 27-year-old woman was killed Wednesday night in Pittsburg in what appears to be a stabbing, a Pittsburg police lieutenant said.
A 25-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint outside a Moraga shopping center on Tuesday evening, police said.
After a bloody incident 15 years ago, California lawmakers allowed police officers to arm themselves with high-powered guns. But the rule didn't consider what happens when an officer retires.
A key witness in San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's domestic violence case will be allowed to testify according to a judge who made the ruling on Wednesday.
A middle school in Livermore was locked down for several hours Wednesday as police searched the campus for an armed suspect.
A pizza delivery driver was assaulted and robbed near Dove Hill Elementary School in San Jose on Tuesday night, San Jose police said.
