Watch CBS News
A college student in Oakland was doing all the right things to work toward a bright future. But his life was cut short by a stray bullet and information is sought in finding his killer.
A judge reduced bail Wednesday for a man accused of helping his son hide the body of California college student Kristin Smart, who went missing nearly 25 years ago.
A detective's promise to a mother, still grieving decades after her son's Seaside murder, was delivered on Tuesday when Anthony Martezz Randall was charged with the 1995 murder of Lloyd Joseph Perkins, Jr.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said there remains a long way to go in holding police accountable following the conviction of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
A California college student missing for nearly 25 years was once buried in the backyard of the home owned by the murder suspect's father, authorities said in a court document.
A Southern California woman who wrongly believed a Bay Area rap artist was responsible for killing her boyfriend was arrested in connection to the rapper's murder outside a San Mateo bank back in December, police said Tuesday.
A former California college student charged with murder in the 1996 disappearance of classmate Kristin Smart pleaded not guilty Monday and his father denied helping to hide the young woman's body.
Police in Oakland and Antioch announced on Thursday the arrests of suspected gang members involved in a feud that authorities say is fueling much of the gun violence plaguing both cities.
Paul Flores, the former San Luis Obispo college student charged with murder in the 1996 disappearance of classmate Kristin Smart, and his alleged accomplice father made their first virtual court appearance on Thursday.
Missing Cal Poly college student Kristin Smart was killed in 1996 during an attempted rape by a fellow student and the suspect's father helped hide her body, the San Luis Obispo County district attorney said Wednesday.
A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty under juvenile justice terms to the 2015 kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 8-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz.
A judge said Friday that a man charged in the death of a 6-year-old San Francisco boy who was hit by gunfire on the 4th of July last year may be tried for murder.
A suspect was arrested in a shooting in El Sobrante last week that left one person dead and a second victim with critical injuries, authorities said Wednesday.
Violent crime has gotten so bad in Oakland, police are creating a new investigative unit to stop it.
A man suspected in the targeted shooting death of a rap artist outside a bank in San Mateo in December was arrested in Oklahoma following what police called a round-the-clock investigation.
An inmate on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County has died, state corrections officials said.
Authorities in Santa Barbara County have arrested a man suspected in a homicide in San Francisco more than three decades ago.
A man was sentenced of 19 years to life Tuesday after pleading guilty to murder and admitting to the use of a firearm in a 2017 shooting in Pittsburg, the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office said.
Police in San Francisco have arrested two people on suspicion of murder in connection with a fatal shooting in the city's Bayview neighborhood last year.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday commuted the life sentence of a woman convicted of killing her stepfather on New Years Eve in 1988, making her immediately eligible for release on parole.
Speaking in front of the Hall of Justice, District Attorney Chesa Boudin, along with several Supervisors and Assemblymember Phil Ting came together to denounce crimes against the Asian-American Pacific Islander community Thursday.
Police in San Jose are looking for two suspects and have released additional details in connection with a fatal shooting in an East San Jose neighborhood last week.
Formal charges were filed Wednesday morning against the Stockton man suspected of acting out a weekend crime spree including the homicide of a man in Brentwood and shooting two first responders in Antioch.
A 31-year-old Discovery Bay woman and her 4-year-old son were found safe Tuesday morning after an intense regional search in the wake of a weekend rampage that left one man dead and two Contra Costa County first responders wounded.
The grieving family of a Discovery Bay man murdered during a crime spree across Contra Costa County say they never knew their sibling took in the alleged killer's son and mother of his child as residents in his home.
