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A judge Wednesday ordered a father and son to stand trial on two counts of murder and one count of premeditated attempted murder for a gruesome shooting and fire in East Oakland two years ago that left two men dead and a third man badly injured.
A Castro Valley man was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting his wife at their home four years ago.
The Benicia teen accused of killing his father, his father's fiancée and the couple's 8-year-old son in 2015 has been convicted of murder.
A female Crips gang member, wanted in the February slaying of a man during a Sonoma County home invasion, has been arrested in hiding in a Richmond, Virginia attic and will be extradited to the Bay Area to face a murder charge.
Gov. Jerry Brown has blocked the parole of a 63-year-old woman whom prosecutors dubbed a "black widow" because she had her husband killed.
A reputed gang associate has pleaded no contest to first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of a mural artist in Oakland three years ago.
A man who shot his San Bruno neighbor dead, cut him up and tried to dissolve the body with chemicals was sentenced to 40-years-to-life in prison Friday morning, San Mateo County prosecutors said.
Two 34-year-old men have been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly fatally stomping on the head of another man in Daly City on Saturday, San Mateo County prosecutors said.
A suspect in the 2016 November slaying of a San Jose man during a street fight has been arrested in Guadalajara and extradited back to the United States, authorities announced Tuesday.
A 72-year-old former police officer accused of being one of California's most elusive serial killers appeared in a courtroom cage used for defendants in jail Monday as a judge put off a decision on whether to release search and arrest warrants in the case.
The two suspects in a fatal stabbing of a woman who was left to die on a rural Livermore road last February entered mixed pleas in a Dublin courtroom Thursday.
Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer, has been charged with four more counts of first-degree murder, stemming from two incidents in Santa Barbara County.
Defense attorneys for the man suspected of being the 'Golden State Killer' argued Wednesday that prosecutors' search and arrest warrants should not be released publicly.
Persistence paid off in a decades-old cold case in Monterey County Monday as the suspect in the vicious 1990 murder of 14-year-old Christy Sue Piña at last appeared in a Salinas courtroom.
The California Supreme Court Thursday unanimously upheld the death penalties of a Sacramento couple for the murder, kidnapping and rape of a 22-year-old Pleasanton woman in 1997.
Authorities expressed belief that former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, committed 12 killings and at least 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
A Union City woman was charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting her husband at their home on Sunday night.
A man who spent almost a quarter of a century on California's Death Row took his first steps of freedom right into his family's arms Thursday after his conviction in the rape and killing of his girlfriend's two-year-old daughter was overturned.
A federal grand jury has indicted 10 reputed members of a San Francisco Mission District gang for their alleged roles in several murders dating back more than a decade.
A 51-year-old man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in a grisly case where he killed his neighbor and cut up the body last year in a dispute over a space heater.
A 34-year-old security guard is being charged with murder in the death of his coworker at a construction site in Walnut Creek on Thursday, Contra Costa County prosecutors said Tuesday.
A suspect arrested on suspicion of fatally beating a 60-year-old man in Walnut Creek Thursday night is being held on $1 million bail, police said Friday morning.
A Washington state sheriff says the body of a woman found near a gun- and ammo-filled bunker last weekend had been decapitated, and a man sought in the case is on the loose and possibly headed for California.
A 57-year-old state prison inmate has been charged with the 1986 murders of two young Fremont women whose bodies were found along side Mill Creek Road.
A federal jury Monday convicted five members of San Francisco's notorious 'Central Divisadero Players' gang of several racketeering counts and murder.
