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The man accused of kidnapping and murdering 15-year-old Sierra LaMar in Morgan Hill was scheduled for a court appearance Tuesday morning but instead his attorney appeared in his behalf and he did not enter a plea.
Two people were killed in a shooting in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said.
An Oakland man convicted of second-degree murder for the death of his ex-girlfriend more than seven years ago—even though her body has never been found—was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in state prison.
A teenager was found dead in an apparent homicide in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood on Sunday morning, police said Monday.
A man killed in East Oakland Friday night has been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as Rafael Garcia.
Four suspects in a shooting after a tattoo party in San Leandro last October that left three people dead and three others wounded pleaded not guilty Friday.
Police believe that the suspect in San Jose's double homicide on Monday, Pedro Castellon Medina, may be driving a black 2006 Nissan Maxima with the license plate number 6TIW691 and may be heading towards Mexico.
A suspect in Monday's double murder of a San Jose couple may have fled to Southern California intending to run to Mexico, police said.
Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine has claimed the remains of 14 murder victims are hidden in the Cow Mountain Recreation Area of Lake, and Mendocino Counties.
Police are continuing to investigate Monday's double murder in which a man and woman were shot dead in their San Jose home with their three children nearby.
A second man accused of killing a father and two of his sons in San Francisco in 2008 pleaded not guilty to murder charges Tuesday.
A lawyer for the family of James Holmes says his mother had no idea Holmes was believed to be the gunman who killed a dozen people in a Colorado theater until a reporter contacted her at her San Diego home.
Two Marin County teens who had a very close call with the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater Friday morning described a chaotic scene.
Petra Anderson, who graduated from the University of the Pacific in May, was shot four times with pellets during a midnight showing of the Batman movie. One pellet entered her nose and traveled through her brain.
San Francisco Police officers were paying special attention to movie theaters Friday in the wake of a mass shooting in a Colorado theater.
Friday morning's mass shooting at a Colorado theater has renewed the debate over gun laws.
Three alleged gang members were facing charges in connection with a shooting during the filming of rap video in Oakland that claimed a toddler's life.
An Oakland man, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of murder for killing a 1-year-old boy in 2009 and then murdering the boy's mother because she was a witness.
A Richmond murder defendant said she was performing an exorcism on a romantic rival before the woman died.
Prosecutors charged a Santa Rosa woman with murder in connection with a vehicle collision that killed a Santa Rosa man Saturday afternoon.
Vacaville police are still looking for a suspect in the fatal beating of a 20-year-old man on the 4th of July.
Jurors on Tuesday ordered convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser to pay his two children a total of $60 million in damages for the loss of their mother.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill to allow death-row inmate Wesley Shermantine to help authorities search for the remains of his long-dead victims.
San Francisco police released more information about a fatal shooting in the city's Ingleside neighborhood last month, as well as a sketch of the suspected killer.
An attorney who represents Hans Reiser's two children asked jurors Monday to order Reiser to pay millions of dollars of damages for depriving them of their mother, Nina Reiser, by murdering her.
