Arrest Made In Killing Of Stockton Woman Found In Pleasanton Garbage Can
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a Stockton woman whose body was found in a garbage can in Pleasanton in May.
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Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a Stockton woman whose body was found in a garbage can in Pleasanton in May.
A racecar driver from Redding was killed when his car crashed into a wall at the Calistoga Speedway on Saturday night, Calistoga Fire Chief Steve Campbell said.
The strangulation death last week of a Castro Valley woman whose home was also set on fire "is the kind of case that fears and nightmares are made of," Alameda County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said Friday.
San Francisco police are investigating a suspicious death reported in the city's Dolores Heights neighborhood Friday morning, a police spokesman said.
A man died at the Santa Cruz County Jail on Saturday morning after being arrested by the California Highway Patrol, according to the sheriff's office.
Health officials have confirmed that a 34-year-old man's death in July stemmed from his contact with a rabid bat in Contra Costa County earlier this year.
A man was fatally injured in a possibly gang-related shooting in East San Jose early Thursday morning, according to police.
Parents, students and staff gathered outside Albany Middle School Tuesday morning to mourn the passing of a sixth-grade teacher who was found dead of an apparent suicide on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of molestation.
The coroner said alcohol killed an 18-year-old Fresno State freshman who was partying at a fraternity house.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of James Izumizaki as a possible suicide.
The deaths of a man and teenage girl whose bodies were found inside a Newark motel room on Friday appear to have been the result of either a murder-suicide or a double suicide, police said.
The 84th homicide of the year in Oakland, and the third within 24 hours, was marked by the shooting death of a man early Friday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
Health officials have said a West Virginia resident has died from the outbreak of a rodent-borne illness linked to Yosemite National Park.
The California agency that licenses residential alcohol and drug programs failed to identify life-threatening problems and did not do proper follow up to ensure that those issues were addressed following a fatality, according to a report by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes.
John Madden remembered the life of former Raiders defensive lineman Tom Keating, who passed away late last week.
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Yosemite National Park officials said a second person has died of a rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting the park earlier this summer.
Police were investigating a fatal shooting that occurred late Thursday night in San Jose, marking the city's 33rd homicide of the year.
Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-comedienne with the cackling laugh who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday morning...
Singer Scott McKenzie, who performed "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" — which became a hit in 1967 during the city's "Summer of Love" — has died...
A Novato man died at a Sonoma gun range Thursday after apparently accidentally shooting himself in the chest, according to police.
The school said Monday that Sauer died Sunday night in White Plains, N.Y., while playing in an adult league recreational basketball game. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound forward from Pittsburgh was part of a Stanford team that reached four straight NCAA tournaments under former coach Mike Montgomery.
Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar in 1955, died Sunday at the age of 95...
A jockey was thrown from his horse and killed in a race at the Alameda County Fair on Thursday.
The San Mateo County coroner is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who was killed on Caltrain tracks in San Mateo last Friday.
