Man Convicted In El Cerrito Rape, Slaying Of Elderly Woman
An East Bay jury has convicted a man in the 2012 kidnapping, rape and murder of an 81-year-old woman who was attacked while taking a morning walk.
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An East Bay jury has convicted a man in the 2012 kidnapping, rape and murder of an 81-year-old woman who was attacked while taking a morning walk.
The woman only known as "Emily Doe" for years, the victim in the nationally covered Stanford sexual assault case, broke her silence in an interview with 60 Minutes Sunday night.
Lyft was hit with five more lawsuits on Tuesday by women who allege they were sexually assaulted or raped by drivers on its platform.
A judge on Monday ordered a former University of California at Berkeley student to stand trial on seven felony counts alleging that he sexually assaulted two female students in 2017 and this year.
A female University of California at Berkeley student testified Thursday that a male student continued to sexually assault her after she told him to stop at a fraternity two years ago.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez pushed the Board of Supervisors to boost funding for rape crisis centers Tuesday.
Star NFL receiver Antonio Brown, who just left a controversial and short-lived tenure with the Oakland Raiders, is reportedly being sued by a woman who claims he raped and sexually assaulted her.
While the number of rape cases in California are on the rise, at the same time funding for programs to help victims is being drastically cut. But officials in the South Bay are doing something about it.
A neighborhood in Vallejo was on lockdown as police and SWAT teams searched for an rape and kidnapping suspect.
A nationwide lawsuit was filed against Lyft on Wednesday by women who claim the company has failed to protect them from sexual assault and rape by refusing to properly screen or monitor its drivers.
A 46-year-old medical professional was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting a female patient, officials say.
Jarryd Hayne, an Australian rugby player who briefly played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2015, has reportedly settled a civil lawsuit with a woman who accused him of rape.
San Bruno police arrested a 46-year-old male Lyft driver on suspicion of raping a 25-year-old female passenger on Saturday morning.
A man known as the "Ski Mask Rapist," who was convicted of more than two dozen rapes in the Bay Area in the 1980s, was denied parole at a hearing Wednesday under a new state law.
Following a court hearing that lasted four days and included lengthy testimony from officers who investigated accused rapist Orlando Vilchez Lazo, a San Francisco judge on Wednesday agreed to let the case proceed.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Thursday declined to rule whether DNA obtained from a man during a traffic stop—DNA that prosecutors say links him to four rapes—can be used as evidence in the case.
The attorney for a man accused of posing as a rideshare driver in order to sexually assault women in San Francisco is claiming officers unlawfully obtained his DNA, which prosecutors say ties him to the crimes.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California on Thursday announced her proposal to invest $1 billion to eliminate the rape kit backlog nationwide.
A 21-year-old Sonoma State University student pleaded not guilty in Sonoma County Superior Court Wednesday to felony charges of rape and sodomy with the use of a drug of a woman on the Rohnert Park campus in December.
A man serving a life sentence for the 1973 rape and murder of a 79-year woman has been denied parole.
Police in San Francisco have arrested a suspect wanted in a brutal kidnapping and sexual assault of a 74-year-old woman earlier this month, authorities announced on Wednesday.
Police in the East Bay on Thursday announced the arrest of a UC Berkeley student who was active in the university's fraternity system in connection with two violent sexual assaults, according to authorities.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced Friday to eight years in state prison for raping a college-age woman who was unconscious from drinking alcohol, in an apartment near the University of California at Berkeley campus two years ago.
One of the newest members of the San Francisco 49ers is being lauded not for his athletic prowess and draft selection, but for his actions to stop the potential rape of a friend and college classmate.
The Sonoma State University Police Department is investigating a reported rape inside a residence on campus.
