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A Stockton man was sentenced Wednesday for the death of his live-in girlfriend whose body was found in a trash can in Pleasanton amid allegations by prosecutors that he may have killed other women prior.
Authorities have arrested a 72-year-old man in connection with a stolen car found burning with three bodies inside in rural Northern California.
San Jose police Wednesday announced the arrests of three men and a juvenile in connection with the alleged gang-related fatal stabbing of a 44-year-old Donald Harvey during a street robbery in January.
Three people in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 56-year-old man in East San Jose last week were arrested, police said in a press release on Wednesday.
Vallejo police have identified a suspect in a February homicide as 32-year-old William Cordoba and are seeking the public's help in locating him.
A woman was killed and two victims were injured in a shooting Monday evening in Vallejo, according to police.
Condemned San Quentin State Prison inmate Richard Ramirez, known as the "Night Stalker," has been determined to have died from complications from B-cell lymphoma, according to a Marin County coroner's report.
Jurors in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California wiped tears from their eyes, as a prosecutor showed images of the victims' bodies and described how they were discovered.
An Emeryville man was fatally shot in North Oakland late Wednesday, an hour before his 23rd birthday, after getting into a confrontation with two suspects who had rear-ended his car, police said Thursday.
Thirty-one alleged members or associates of the Nuestra Familia gang sat in chains and handcuffs at the Hall of Justice in a courtroom crowded with their friends, relatives and attorneys for both sides.
Two alleged gang members were fatally shot in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood early Thursday morning, according to police.
A 56-year-old man was fatally stabbed near his East San Jose home early Thursday morning, a police spokesman said.
Sunnyvale and San Jose police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of a 37-year-old bouncer outside The Peacock Lounge in Sunnyvale early Sunday morning.
Grand jury indictments were handed down against 48 suspected members of the Nuestra Familia gang in Santa Clara County on Tuesday.
A nightclub in Sunnyvale was back in business Monday morning after police reported that a bouncer at the club was shot and killed there early Sunday morning.
One person was killed during a fight inside a store at the Great Mall on Friday, according to Milpitas police.
A parole panel refused an emotional bid by former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten to release her from prison 44 years after she participated in a notorious set of murders.
Joseph Naso, facing the death penalty for the murders of four women, mocked the prosecutor during interviews with prospective jurors.
Police have arrested two suspects they say are responsible for the double murder of two teens in broad daylight last month.
Following the murders of five people in San Jose last week, a state lawmaker is urging the San Jose Police Department to ask for additional help from the California Highway Patrol.
San Jose police on Monday released the identities of victims in two separate homicides in the city late last week.
A man was arrested last week and another is being sought for an April 2012 fatal shooting in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood, police said Monday.
An unrepentant Oakland man who claims that he is innocent was sentenced Monday to life in prison for murdering a Virginia man who had come to the Bay Area for a job interview at Google three years ago.
Jury selection begins Monday at the trial of alleged serial killer Joseph Naso, charged with killing four women whose bodies were found along rural roads in Yuba, Marin and Contra Costa counties between 1977 and 1994.
A 67-year-old man was found fatally shot in a garage in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood on Saturday evening, police said Monday.
