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A convicted California serial killer whose maps have led authorities to hundreds of human bone fragments has apparently revealed the location of a third well where he says a victim can be found.
A Sacramento woman will stand trial on charges of killing her 7-week-old daughter by placing her in a microwave oven.
A man who was found dead in San Francisco's Mission District on Sunday morning appears to have been murdered, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Berkeley police acknowledge they didn't immediately respond to a call in the hills that would eventually result in last Saturday's homicide, because they were planning for an Occupy protest headed to UC Berkeley.
Two people were killed in separate shootings in East Oakland early Sunday morning, an Oakland police officer said.
Convicted killer Wesley Shermantine spoke out with a letter from death row to the CBS station in Sacramento. Meanwhile, the search for victims of the "Speed Freak Killers" has entered its second week.
An initiative to fight violent crime in the most dangerous parts of Oakland has so far focused on illegal weapons, drugs and prostitution in East Oakland, city officials said Friday.
The trial of Giselle Esteban, accused of stalking and killing her former friend Michelle Le, is set for Sept. 17.
An Oakland man has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a man during a botched attempt to steal marijuana from the victim.
An immigration agent shot and injured another agent Thursday and was then killed by a third colleague in a federal building in Long Beach, the FBI said.
Authorities say cadaver dogs will be used to search for human remains in dozens of dirt piles on an abandoned cattle ranch in San Joaquin County.
A Daly City woman accused of killing her ex-husband by throwing a pot of boiling water on him while he slept pleaded not guilty to murder in San Mateo County Superior Court Thursday.
Calling him a "vicious, heartless murderer," a federal judge in San Francisco Thursday imposed a sentence of life plus ten years in prison on an MS-13 gang member accused of participating in the gunfire slaying of a college student in Daly City in 2009.
A Marin County Superior Court judge this morning approved Joseph Naso's waiver of his right to an attorney, clearing the way for the 78-year-old Reno man to represent himself in his trial for four Northern California murders that occurred between 1977 and 1994.
A 23-year-old man struck by multiple bullets during a Vallejo shooting Tuesday afternoon was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.
The roommate of a man who was found stabbed to death near the railroad tracks in unincorporated Hayward last week has been arrested on suspicion of murder, an Alameda County sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been preliminarily identified as one of his victims.
Searchers using information provided by a convicted California serial killer have recovered the remains of a second person.
Joseph Naso, the Reno man accused of killing four women in Northern California between 1977 and 1994, Friday morning adamantly asserted his right to represent himself at his trial.
An Oakland drug dealer was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for murdering a man near a gas station while trying to rob him five years ago.
A 59-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a death at a residential hotel in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood earlier this month that was later ruled a homicide, police said.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday the city had 14 homicides so far this year, which is two more than it had at this time last year.
Police in East Palo Alto have arrested a woman suspected of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at their home Tuesday morning, a police sergeant said.
A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing another man at a homeless shelter in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday evening, police said Tuesday.
The brother-in-law of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of murder in a drive-by shooting that killed a father and his two sons in San Francisco in 2008, said such shootings are forbidden by the MS-13 gang.
