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Protesters against the police actions in Ferguson, Mo. as well as police killings of other suspects in California and other states gathered in Oakland on Wednesday. Some protesters unveiled a new tactic, by holding up mirrors in the faces of officers.
A Bay Area police officer said he can relate to both sides of the tensions in Ferguson, Missouri. Jinho Ferreira, a musician who protested the Oscar Grant shooting turned police officer and playwright, hopes his duel perspectives can reach many different people.
A woman shot to death Thursday by a San Jose police officer after brandishing what looked like a gun but proved to be a power drill was 19-year-old Diana Showman, of San Jose, police announced Monday.
Police are investigating a Sunday night shooting in East Palo Alto that killed one person and sent three people to the hospital.
San Francisco police are asking for the public's help in their investigation of an attempted homicide Sunday morning.
Police are seeking suspect information about a shooter who killed a known gang member at an apartment complex in Salinas late Friday night.
Police witnessed a suspect firing a gun at a vehicle as it sped away near an elementary school in South San Jose.
Some windows were broken and slogans were spray painted on buildings during a march that stretched from Downtown Oakland to Berkeley Friday evening. The protesters denounced the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
A Vallejo police officer is not criminally liable for fatally shooting a man whose metal wallet he mistook for a firearm, according to the county district attorney.
Police responded to the scene after receiving calls the woman was threatening to kill family members with an Uzi-like weapon. It was determined she was holding a cordless drill.
Police Thursday asked for the public's help in identifying four suspects allegedly involved in a shooting outside a mall in San Leandro on Monday morning.
Amtrak is investigating how a window on one of its trains was partially shattered as the train traveled near Richmond on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman said.
An Oakland teen has been charged with the shooting death last month of a 21-year-old man in Oakland, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Police in Hollister are trying to figure out what happened to 20-year-old Vanessa Flores. Authorities said her ex-boyfriend may have taken Flores and killed her friend.
The shooting of a Chihuahua in East Menlo Park earlier this month is being investigated by the Peninsula Humane Society, who has offered a $1,000 reward for information about it, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA officials said Monday.
A hostage kidnapped during a Northern California bank robbery was killed by police in an ensuing chase and shootout, likely during a final gunbattle where the lone surviving suspect used her as a human shield, authorities said Monday.
The police shooting of an unarmed man in Missouri has inspired a Twitter hashtag spreading across social media sites.
Police are trying to locate a suspect who shot a man in the leg in the Bayfair Center mall parking lot in San Leandro Monday morning, police said.
Police say two motorcyclists died after they crashed while trying to escape gunfire in a San Francisco neighborhood.
Two people shot in San Francisco's Bayview District Sunday evening suffered injuries that are considered life-threatening, a police spokesman said.
A man was shot and killed in Bay Point on Friday night, a Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said Saturday.
A man was arrested in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday after San Mateo County sheriff's deputies said he fired several shots at another man.
Police arrested 11 people -- including a man suspected of shooting a woman in front of her apartment last week -- during a crime suppression effort in Antioch on Wednesday night.
A man killed early Saturday in what police said was a possible gang-related shooting that also wounded a woman has been identified as 20-year-old Ernesto Castro-Sanchez, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office
A decorated, former Marine hospitalized recovering from a shooting near his home in Antioch.
