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The Santa Cruz County Public Defender's Office says a judge got it wrong when he decided to continue to prosecute accused killer Adrian Gonzalez as an adult in apparent defiance of California's new juvenile justice reform law, SB 1391.
One of five defendants who was charged with murder during a robbery last year pleaded no contest Friday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court to seven felony counts of home invasion robbery.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office on Thursday charged a 43-year-old ex-felon with three counts of murder for allegedly killing three people in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley in a period of less than five hours last month.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld the conviction of former Chinatown tong leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow for the murder of his predecessor as tong chief, racketeering conspiracy and other crimes.
A San Jose man suspected of killing his 1-month-old son in September 2018 was taken into custody and jailed Tuesday, according to police.
In what might be the oldest case ever tried in Alameda County, a man already serving time for a sex crime in another state was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday for the stabbing and strangulation death of a 45-year-old woman in Oakland in 1979.
While so much attention has been focused on the Ghost Ship trial underway at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland, a 37-year-old murder case has just landed in the hands of a jury.
San Jose Police released surveillance video showing two suspects in connection with a fatal shooting in 2018. They're asking for the public's help in identifying them.
A Solano County Superior Court jury Tuesday convicted a man of killing a woman and attempting to murder her 6-year-old son in Vallejo in 2014.
Three 16-year-olds - two girls and one boy - have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with an April 5 hit-and-run collision in San Jose, according to police.
A judge said on Friday that he's inclined to grant the prosecution's request to give their expert witness the psychological records of a transient who's charged in the death of Nia Wilson.
Attorneys for a former Playboy model and her roommate accused of killing a popular Monterey psychiatrist, insist their clients had no role in the bludgeoning death of 71-year-old Dr. Thomas Kirk Burchard.
Berkeley is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the death of Alex Goodwin Jr., who was found with gunshot wounds just before midnight on Aug. 16, 2016.
One man was killed and three other people injured in a shooting early Sunday morning in the northern part of Vallejo, police said.
Two brothers were arrested early Saturday morning in connection with the killing of a woman in a case Vacaville police describe as a domestic violence case.
Oakland police and the FBI released public service announcements on Thursday asking for the public's help in identifying a vehicle of interest in the fatal shooting of a man in the city's Temescal district three years ago.
A 48-year-old man suspected in a fatal stabbing was tracked down and arrested at a Knightsen home early Friday morning, according to Pittsburg police.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are still battling about the mental competency of a transient charged with murder for the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland last July.
Two men arrested for participating in a mass Fillmore District shooting will not face murder charges at this time, prosecutors said.
A fight between two men last week at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf ended with one of the men fatally stabbing the other in broad daylight and in front of several witnesses, prosecutors said.
An Oakland man who was only 16 at the time was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison for the shooting death of an off-duty paramedic in the Oakland hills six years ago.
South Bay leaders are squaring off after a recent San Jose murder case has officials taking sides over Santa Clara County's immigration policy.
A man who spent more than six years in prison after police framed him for murder received a $13.1 million settlement from the city of San Francisco on Tuesday.
The DUI suspect in a fatal hit-and-run collision in Fremont on Sunday evening was charged with murder by the Alameda County District Attorney.
The friend of a San Jose woman murdered in her own home by an undocumented immigrant with a long criminal record on Monday said Bambi Larson's accused killer deserves the death penalty.
