More Details Emerge In Antioch Dragging Death
A woman who was hit by a truck and dragged to her death in Antioch early Tuesday morning has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as Shelly Baker.
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A woman who was hit by a truck and dragged to her death in Antioch early Tuesday morning has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as Shelly Baker.
A resident of rural Sonoma County interrupted a burglary when he returned home Tuesday afternoon, a Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant said.
The San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab, which was characterized by controversy earlier this year, has now been accredited by the American Society of Crime Lab Directors (ASCLD).
A man who allegedly crashed a stolen car into a BART police cruiser while fleeing deputies after ramming their car is being held on a parole violation, according to Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered a $50,000 reward for information about the murder of Ashley Yamauchi in San Rafael nearly two years ago.
Police said Tuesday that an Antioch woman was dragged to death by a pickup truck following an early morning argument.
The Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office Tuesday filed 29 charges against an armed jail inmate who allegedly attacked a sheriff's deputy last week at a hospital in Santa Cruz and prompted a five-hour manhunt.
A man believed to have impersonated a police officer and tried to pull people over in Millbrae and Pacifica was arrested after a similar incident took place in downtown Redwood City on Monday night.
Family members of a 15-year-old Pacheco girl who went missing more than a week ago are asking for the public's help in bringing her home safely.
The FBI says it recently issued an alert about a popular Barbie doll with a hidden video camera that could be used to produce child pornography, but stressed that the toy has not been linked with any reported crimes.
A man was arrested in Oakland Tuesday on suspicion of robbing a bank in Pleasant Hill last month, police said.
A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a Jesuit priest he says molested him more than three decades ago.
Two men were shot and injured in Antioch Monday in separate incidents, according to police.
A friendship between accused kidnapper Nancy Garrido and another inmate bloomed into a relationship that continued through letter writing. The correspondence eventually included a long, rambling treatise by Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido.
California's prison department said Monday it has turned to an overseas manufacturer to replenish its supplies of sodium thiopental, a drug necessary to carry out executions in the state.
The Oakland Police Department's staffing has decreased so much that some patrol beats are uncovered and investigations are taking longer, Deputy Police Chief Eric Breshears admitted Monday.
Three adults who admitted to holding captive and torturing a 16-year-old boy for more than a year are each headed to prison for at least 30 years.
Following seven murders in November, San Francisco's homicide rate is now five percent higher than last year.
A 26-year-old Oakland man has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse in connection with the death of his infant son, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said.
A woman was stabbed to death in a parking lot in Antioch Monday morning and her alleged attacker has been arrested, Antioch police said.
A Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall counselor who was arrested last month for possession of child pornography was charged Monday with 46 counts of child molestation after investigators identified one of the victims seen in the images, a deputy district attorney said.
A BART police officer was recovering from a serious head injury and a parolee was in custody Monday for allegedly ramming a stolen car into an Alameda County sheriff's deputy cruiser then striking a BART police car.
A man suspected of killing two people and wounding a third at a Vacaville apartment complex last month was booked into Solano County Jail late Sunday night on murder and attempted murder charges.
The attorney for the Bay Area woman charged along with her husband with holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years said Saturday evening that jailhouse letters sent from his client to a friend she met in jail won't hurt her defense.
A 9-year-old girl has been shot and critically injured as she answered the door of her family's Hercules home.
