Governor Brown Allows Parole For Killers At Higher Rate
A new report shows Gov. Jerry Brown let stand 80 percent of a state board's decisions to parole murderers from California prisons.
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A new report shows Gov. Jerry Brown let stand 80 percent of a state board's decisions to parole murderers from California prisons.
Police are still searching for one of the suspects in a fatal shooting at the Bay Fair BART station last month, who they say should be considered armed and dangerous.
A man and a woman were found shot to death in an East San Jose home Thursday afternoon from an apparent murder-suicide, according to police.
Officers responded around 3:15 p.m. to the 300 block of North 21st Street, near San Jose High School, where they found a male victim, believed to be a teenager, suffering from stab wounds.
Anthony Lamar Jones is accused of killing Genelle Conway-Allen, whose unclothed body was found around 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 1 in a parking lot at Allan Witt Park in Fairfield.
Police are investigating the shootings of five people in Vallejo that left one man dead.
Fairfield police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of 13-year-old Genelle Conway-Allen, of Suisun City, whose body was found Feb. 1 in Allan Witt Park in Fairfield.
Authorities say a wealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist was killed during a brutal home-invasion when three intruders bound and gagged him with packaging tape as they beat his wife and told her to "be quiet if you want to live."
As an ex-cop, Christopher Dorner knows the police playbook back-to-front, which makes the job of tracking and taking him down even tougher.
The name of the officer is not being released while the suspect, Christopher Dorner, remains at large. Dorner is the subject of a widespread manhunt that focused on the mountain community of Big Bear late Thursday.
An Oakland drug dealer who claimed that he was acting in self-defense was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a friend the friend's home in West Oakland in September 2011.
Sonoma County law enforcement officials say they're increasingly involved with trying to solve a type of crime that barely existed a few years ago that centers around marijuana.
The suspect in the murder of an East Palo Alto community leader was released from custody this week, over the objections of prosecutors who say he confessed to the crime.
Three men were fatally shot at a Forestville home as a result of a marijuana drug deal gone bad, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning.
Police have identified three suspects wanted in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old man at a Pittsburg gas station last week, a police lieutenant said Wednesday.
Fairfield Police remained tight-lipped as they try to solve the murder of a 13-year-old girl whose nude body was found in a city park Friday.
Sonoma County authorities said crime scene investigators will be searching a rural Sonoma County home for clues throughout the night after three men were found shot to death in the home Tuesday.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office didn't file any charges against 19-year-old Donald Parks Jr. for the shooting of 18-year-old Kiante Campbell of Oakland.
Fairfield police have identified Genelle Renee Conway-Allen as the 13-year-old Suisun City girl who was found dead in Allan Witt Park in Fairfield on Friday morning.
A 24-year-old woman who showed up at her neighbor's house with a knife and blood on her hands is suspected of murdering her mother who was found dead in her home, a Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant said.
A Sebastopol-area woman has been booked into jail for fatally stabbing her 59-year-old mother Monday morning, a Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant said.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old man shortly after the popular First Friday event in downtown Oakland on Friday night, police said.
Vallejo police were investigating an early morning homicide, a police lieutenant said Monday.
San Jose police were investigating a shooting that killed one person and injured another Sunday evening on Audubon Drive.
Police were investigating a shooting that killed one person and left another injured late Friday night in the vicinity of the Oakland Art Murmur gallery walk, according to Oakland police.
