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A man has been arrested in connection with the assault and attempted kidnapping of children in two separate incidents near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Monday morning.
Three men are wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a Tracy father who investigators say was not the intended target of the crime.
A San Francisco judge sentenced a man to multiple life sentences after he was found guilty of violent sexual assaults and kidnappings while posing as a rideshare driver, prosecutors said.
Police in Oakland made an arrest and recovered a weapon after officers said a woman was kidnapped in East Oakland on Tuesday.
Two Siskiyou County men have been charged with kidnapping two U.S. Forest Service employees who prosecutors say were abducted at gunpoint and held for 15 hours in a remote Northern California trailer.
A woman who was pistol-whipped and kidnapped in Oakland last week was found safe, the department announced.
The California Highway Patrol said an Amber Alert for a missing 3-month-old infant from Alameda County has been lifted after the child was found in Southern California.
Authorities believe two ransom notes addressed to Nancy Guthrie's family — including a note that said she had died — were likely sent by the person or group of people who abducted her.
Three men from Tennessee are accused of traveling to the Bay Area to kidnap wealthy cryptocurrency holders. Katie Nielsen reports on the home invasions and why crypto is such an attractive target.
Three men from Tennessee have been indicted on federal charges, including attempted kidnapping, in connection with an alleged crime spree targeting cryptocurrency owners in California.
A deadly attack in an Antioch neighborhood earlier this week has resulted in multiple felony charges including murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and child abuse charges, authorities said.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta's office is requesting the state Supreme Court to review a ruling that overturned the conviction of the man found guilty of murdering and kidnapping Sierra LaMar in 2012.
A Central California woman has been sentenced to federal prison after she was found guilty in a scheme to kidnap her estranged teenage son to send him to a boarding school.
American journalist Shelly Kittleson is being released on the condition that she leave Iraq immediately, an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq says.
A state appeals court has overturned the conviction of the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering Sierra LaMar in 2012, paving the way for a new trial.
The suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenage girl in San Jose was identified as a registered sex offender, police announced on Friday.
Authorities in Central California have arrested a man on animal cruelty and other charges after he allegedly shot a friend's dog and forced him to bury his pet at gunpoint.
Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley, are investigating a possible kidnapping late Tuesday night, the department said.
Police in Union City have released a sketch of a suspect in the attempted kidnapping last week of a girl on her way to school.
Officers rescued a woman who had been kidnapped and assaulted in San Rafael over the weekend, and three suspects were arrested, authorities said Monday.
A manual transmission foiled two would-be carjackers who allegedly kidnapped a man because they couldn't drive his SUV away from a Healdsburg park over the weekend, authorities said.
Authorities in California's Central Valley said they arrested eight people in connection with an alleged gang-related kidnapping and torture case.
Police in Calistoga have launched an investigation after a witness reported a screaming woman being assaulted and forced into a vehicle, authorities said Wednesday.
A man was arrested as the suspect in a 2009 rape cold case in Sunnyvale, police announced Thursday.
Police in the South Bay announced the arrests of two people from the Central Valley in connection with armed robberies targeting massage parlors in the area.
