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A repeat sexual offender was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison after pleading no contest in August to eight felony sex offenses, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced Friday.
San Joaquin County correctional officer Zachary Simmons was arrested Monday on rape and other charges for allegedly sexually assaulting three women inmates.
A San Jose man has been arrested on a sexual assault charge and police believe there may be other victims.
Police in San Jose are seeking the public's help in their investigation of a Bay Area nightclub promoter arrested for a series of sexual assaults.
Lyft driver Octavio Alvarez Gomez, 39, was sentenced in connection with an Oct. 2, 2018 assault on a Southern California woman who had called for a ride after leaving a local bar.
Nearly 200 current and former California correctional officers have filed a lawsuit alleging that they were forced to take unnecessary rectal exams that amounted to sexual assault.
Police in Petaluma on Thursday confirmed that they had arrested a man on Wednesday on suspicion of repeated sexual abuse of a child.
Acting on complaints from several former female students, Palo Alto police detectives have arrested a 74-year-old man on charges he sexually molested the teenagers at his residence during private math lessons between the years of 2002 and 2016.
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers and Los Angeles prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone extradition proceedings that would send the imprisoned former film producer from New York to California to face sexual assault charges.
Police released new details in the case of a violent sexual assault involving a woman in her 60s, in hopes it will lead to the suspect's arrest.
The San Mateo Police Department asked the public for help Thursday finding the suspect in a sexual assault investigation.
A former basketball coach who faced 32 felony charges related to child molestation took a plea deal and will serve 15 years in prison, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office.
Authorities in Sunnyvale earlier this week arrested a 59-year-old male suspect on multiple counts of sexual assault involving a child under the age of 10.
Gilroy police arrested a transient man this week on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and attempted murder.
A San Jose community college special needs teacher has been arrested for the alleged rape of one of his students, police said Tuesday.
State prosecutors in California are investigating the credentials that Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who has accused Joe Biden of assaulting her in 1993, attested to in as many as 20 criminal trials.
San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe announced Monday that his office will not file criminal charges against a Foster City police officer and detective
A 57-year-old man who had been serving a lengthy sentence in Nevada for a sexual assault conviction was arraigned on Friday on special circumstances murder charges for the 1981 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in West Oakland.
A Oakland man was charged with multiple counts of statutory rape and lewd acts with a child under 14, police said.
A man who allegedly provided a teenage girl with marijuana before sexually assaulting her last summer was arrested Thursday by San Mateo County Sheriff's detectives, according to authorities.
A man was arrested for the violent sexual assault of a female victim at a 24 Hour Fitness gym in Fremont on Monday - which was stopped by a quick-acting Good Samaritan - and detectives believe there may be other potential victims, police said.
A man suspected in sexual assault case first reported to police 15 years ago, is behind bars after DNA evidence put investigators on his trail.
Police in Berkeley on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a horse trainer at Golden Gate Fields after an alleged sexual assault on a victim over a year ago.
Tenants of an Oakland apartment complex were staging a strike to protest rent hikes and the shoddy condition of their living units.
Officials in Santa Clara County said they have officially eliminated the county's rape kit backlog.
