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Prosecutors in San Francisco allege that a man charged with the murder of a 23-year-old man, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase discovered in the Bay last week, helped torture the victim along with another suspect after the trio had consensual sex at a Mid-Market neighborhood hotel room.
Two men have been arrested for allegedly fatally shooting a Concord man while they were stealing his bike.
A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his brother Saturday night in an unincorporated area of Livermore, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said.
San Francisco police are set to announce an update Wednesday in the Doodler case, in which several assaults against gay men were thought to be connected to five homicides in the mid-1970s.
A California parole panel Wednesday recommended that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be granted parole after serving more than four decades in prison.
The family of a Richmond murder victim voiced their outrage Thursday over a new state law that bars adult charges being filed against suspects 16 years old or younger in homicide cases.
A 26-year-old man was charged Wednesday in the deaths of three men who were gunned down on a street near the Oakland West BART station on Jan. 4th.
A San Jose man has been arrested for the stabbing death of his mother, authorities said Monday.
A woman who witnessed a man beating a woman on a sidewalk in San Francisco was fatally stabbed by the suspect after she started recording him on her cellphone.
PG&E could face criminal charges as serious as manslaughter or murder in the wake of the deadly Camp Fire.
Gov. Jerry Brown Monday ordered further forensic tests on evidence used to convict death row inmate Kevin Cooper of the murders of a Southern California family in the 1980s.
Special circumstance charges have been filed against two suspects being held for the alleged murder-for-hire of a popular East Bay chef as he slept in his home last October.
A former attorney for a tenancy advocacy group was acquitted Tuesday of murder in a 2015 fatal stabbing of a street vendor in downtown San Francisco.
A Bay Area man was sentenced in Sonoma County Superior Court Thursday morning for a fatal stabbing on a Santa Rosa street and an attempted murder stabbing in a Santa Rosa movie theater in 2016.
A woman has been found dead and a suspect is in custody tonight following a possible homicide in Menlo Park.
San Jose police arrested a murder suspect as he returned to the crime scene on Wednesday, officials said.
Prosecutors say a man now charged with murder fatally stabbed a 16-year-old boy in the neck as the teen was filming a street fight Saturday night in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury found a San Jose man guilty Thursday morning of murdering his parents at their Evergreen home in 2016.
The Davis man convicted when he was a teen of murdering an elderly couple will remain in adult court, a judged decided on Wednesday.
A riot broke out at Salinas Valley State Prison Tuesday, hours after an inmate was found dead of multiple wounds in his cell, authorities said.
A condemned man from Southern California was fatally stabbed by a fellow inmate on an exercise yard at San Quentin State Prison, authorities announced Friday.
A San Jose woman's Fitbit helped provide clues to police investigating her death, leading to the arrest of her 90-year-old stepfather this week.
The man accused of pursuing and killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts who grew up in the East Bay pleaded not guilty during arraignment Wednesday.
A suspect in a Bay Area revenge killing went on the run for a month and finally turned himself in at a small town in Oregon after saying goodbye to his wife.
