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A high tech crime task force in San Jose specializing in identity theft and intellectual property investigations might lose its $2 million funding if the California vehicle license fee expires, authorities said.
Police are investigating a homicide in which a shooting victim was dropped off and left with emergency medical personnel on the streets of Oakland Wednesday night.
A man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was stabbed on San Francisco's Market Street late Tuesday night by a group of men believed to be members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, a police spokesman said.
Prosecutors filed murder charges Wednesday against a 19-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing another man outside a Burger King restaurant in Concord on Sunday, Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney John Cope said.
Five suspects have been arrested after a ring of armed thieves stole more than $37 million in computer chips from a Fremont company in late February.
Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man accused of killing four California women whose names have raised questions about whether they were targeted because of their alliterative initials.
A teenage boy accused of murdering another teen in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood last weekend made his first appearance in juvenile court Wednesday morning.
Efforts are underway in San Francisco to create a database of those who have abused animals. The idea will be presented to the Animal Care and Control commission Thursday.
A man, a woman, and their 3-year-old child were airlifted to a hospital in Santa Rosa Tuesday night after their car went over the edge of a coastal highway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
There's a new effort to put some teeth in California's ban on using cellphones while driving, making a second offense an even stiffer moving violation.
Police in Fairfield are asking for the public's help in locating a wanted parolee who is considered armed and dangerous.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has decided to throw himself into the contentious debate over whether security should be beefed up at the city's nightclubs.
A Santa Cruz cat found with an arrow sticking through one ear and into its head was recuperating Tuesday after surgery at a veterinary hospital.
Police have released few details about the mysterious death of 16-year-old Andy Zeng in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood early Sunday morning.
A Bay Area prosecutor said Tuesday that he planned to seek the death penalty for a suspected 77-year-old serial killer accused in four cold-case deaths.
Four men suspected of burglarizing a home in San Francisco's Richmond District last week were arrested in Nebraska two days later, police said Tuesday.
Vallejo police Sgt. Jeff Bassett said Superior Court Judge Robert Bowers was arrested early Monday in his vehicle after police received a complaint from his wife late Sunday night.
Police were investigating the deaths of two people found inside a home in Concord on Monday night as a possible murder-suicide, Lt. Brandon Richey said.
A 26-year-old Oakland man was fatally shot while sitting in his car Monday evening. Jeffery Nichols was shot at 7:20 p.m. in the 9500 block of Golf Links Road, spokeswoman Cynthia Perkins said.
Officers are investigating a slew of shots that were fired in downtown Novato on Monday night.
A man and woman who were found dead inside a Cupertino home on Saturday afternoon have been identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office as Gary and Susan Longdon.
Police arrested a man suspected of raping a 13-year-old girl in Novato on Monday.
Authorities have arrested a 77-year-old Nevada man they believe committed four murders in Northern California between 1977 and 1994.
Gov. Jerry Brown is asking groups representing crime victims and state prison guards to help him lobby Republican lawmakers on his proposal.
A man accused of posing as a licensed contractor and bilking a homeowner and day laborers out of thousands of dollars was arraigned on multiple felony counts.
