Body In Burning Car On Marin Coast Identified As Fairfax Woman
The Marin County coroner's office has identified a person found dead in a burning car near Tomales last week as 58-year-old Nancy Herlands, of Fairfax.
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The Marin County coroner's office has identified a person found dead in a burning car near Tomales last week as 58-year-old Nancy Herlands, of Fairfax.
A 19-year-old Petaluma man who was paralyzed in a diving accident a year ago was killed in a crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Marin County on Sunday afternoon.
Former Oakland Raider/NFL defensive star Bubba Smith, who found a successful second career as an actor, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 66...
A Fremont assemblyman has co-authored a bill to make it a felony for parents to not promptly report the death or disappearance of their child.
Fans of singer Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in her north London home on Saturday, gathered at Amoeba Records in San Francisco to remember her life and music.
A 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting an infant in East Palo Alto last month pleaded not guilty to murder in San Mateo County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon.
A 14-year-old girl died after apparently drinking soda spiked with alcohol at a sleepover Saturday night, a Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant said Monday.
An interview with Bill Fisher, CEO of the Northern California Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, about what is being done to fight the deadly disease.
An elderly woman died and a man was injured in a fire in El Cerrito Wednesday evening, a fire official said.
The death of a Caltrans worker in Southern California Monday morning has prompted the agency to issue a statewide safety stand down.
The Bay Area has lost one of its treasures. Shirley Fong Torres died on Saturday, June 18th of leukemia...
A 17-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting an infant in East Palo Alto on June 5 appeared in San Mateo County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon.
Milpitas police are investigating the murder of a 43-year-old man on Monday, the city's first homicide of the year.
Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on "Celebrity Rehab," died Friday.
When it comes to crossing the street, the greater San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area and the South Bay are two of the most deadly parts of the country, according to a national study that shows the Bay Area averaged 100 pedestrian deaths a year over the last decade.
Two men were sentenced to prison terms Monday for their roles in the death of a roofer at a home in San Francisco's Twin Peaks neighborhood in 2008, District Attorney George Gascon said.
A driver was killed in Oakland Tuesday afternoon when a van went off the roadway and hit a tree near northbound Interstate Highway 880, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
A man who was brutally beaten in a fight in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood in March has died, and prosecutors filed murder charges Wednesday against another man arrested for the attack.
Once again, San Francisco-based Twitter carried vital information to Americans ahead of traditional news outlets.
News that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden died in a firefight Sunday night has brought satisfaction and peace for some Bay Area policymakers.
Chief Greg Suhr told CBS 5 on Sunday night that the SFPD was on heightened alert as news of Osama Bin Laden's death spread across the globe.
Five juveniles have been arrested in connection with a break-in at a school near Santa Rosa on Saturday in which classrooms were vandalized and a hamster was tortured and killed, a Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant said Tuesday morning.
Hall of Fame fullback Joe Perry, the first player with back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons and nicknamed "The Jet" for his speed, has died. He was 84.
Authorities are still working to determine how a San Francisco man died after he apparently suffered some sort of medical emergency and fell on an escalator at the Powell Street transit station last week.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the death of an assistant winemaker at Ancien Wines in Napa.