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An Oakland resident was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend during a domestic dispute at his Walnut Creek home last November in what appeared to be self-defense.
A second man has been arrested in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was killed in a drive-by shooting along a busy Oakland street, authorities said Monday.
The man accused of murdering 3-year-old Carlos Nava in a drive-by shooting in East Oakland on Monday was assigned an attorney from the Alameda County Public Defender's Office at a brief hearing on Friday.
Two people died in two separate shootings Friday night and early Saturday morning in Oakland, an Oakland police officer said.
A brief court appearance occurred Friday for a 26-year-old alleged gang member accused in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 3-year-old Oakland boy, while family members maintained the man's innocence.
An Alameda County judge is scheduled to listen to new motions from the lawyers of two men convicted in the murder of an Oakland journalist.
A Northern California man and his teenage girlfriend, who once compared themselves to Romeo and Juliet, are facing prison for killing the girl's mother.
Oakland police have booked a man on a murder charge stemming from a drive-by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has charged a 48-year-old man with the murder of his girlfriend at their San Jose apartment last week.
A drive-by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy in East Oakland on Monday appears to have been gang-related, Oakland police said Wednesday.
A 43-year-old man appeared in an Alameda County juvenile court Wednesday to face charges in the killing of a 14-year-old Pleasanton girl nearly three decades ago.
It was two years ago Wednesday that six-year-old Hassani Campbell went missing from a shoe store in the Rockridge area of Oakland and there has been no sign of him since.
Police reportedly arrested two men late Tuesday afternoon in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a 3-year-old boy in East Oakland
Oakland police said the two other male victims, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, appeared to be targeted by the suspect or suspects.
A prosecutor told a federal jury in San Francisco Monday that the most important rule of the MS-13 street gang is to "attack and kill rival gang members."
A 43-year-old man with an extensive criminal history has been arrested for the murder of a teenage girl in Pleasanton more than a quarter-century ago, police said Monday.
Vallejo police were investigating the murder of a man who was shot while driving his SUV Sunday night, a police lieutenant said.
One person was fatally shot and another was injured early Saturday morning in Oakland, a police officer said.
A woman who was stabbed to death at a San Jose apartment early Friday morning was a victim of domestic violence, a police spokesman said.
A man who was shot to death in his south Richmond neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as 18-year-old Vincent Stephenson, Jr.
Four people have been killed and seven others injured in a rash of 11 shootings throughout Oakland since Thursday, and Oakland police are working to find solutions to a rise in violent crime in the city this year.
The second victim of an early morning shooting in Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood died from his injuries Monday afternoon, Richmond police Capt. Mark Gagan said.
Three people were killed in Oakland late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, police said.
Police say they are looking for a suspect vehicle in the fatal shooting of Paris Powell, an Oakland resident known for feeding the homeless.
San Jose police announced two additional arrests Friday in the murder of 18-year-old Vincent Tran Le two months ago.
