Sheriff Investigating Christmas Day Murder-Suicide In San Lorenzo
The Alameda County Sheriff's department was busy Christmas morning investigating a murder suicide in San Lorenzo.
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The Alameda County Sheriff's department was busy Christmas morning investigating a murder suicide in San Lorenzo.
Law enforcement officers are duty-bound to protect and serve, but it takes special dediction to calm a highly emotional situation. This week's Jefferson Award winner has spent more than 20 years finding the right words to say to those in despair.
A death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison committed suicide in his cell late Friday night, prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said.
This week's Jefferson Award winners make a formidable team: together they've raised four children and built successful careers. But as Kate Kelly reports, none of it prepared them for what happened nine years ago.
A man who threw concrete and bricks at police while on a building's ledge in San Francisco's Financial District on Monday afternoon is the same person who stood nude atop a signpost for hours last week.
The Contra Costa County board of supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to adopt the Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan that has been two years in the making.
A former San Francisco assistant police chief apparently committed suicide Wednesday evening outside a Sonoma County sheriff's substation, a sheriff's lieutenant said Thursday morning.
The parents of a teenage girl who committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault by three teen boys in Saratoga have reached a settlement with two defendants in their wrongful death lawsuit, their attorney said Friday.
The parents of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who killed herself after she was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party last year, added a new female defendant to a suit they filed in San Jose in the wake of her death.
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she's against the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and she's expressed her concerns to the secretary of defense.
A man who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived will lead a suicide prevention walk in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this weekend.
The three teens accused of sexually assaulting a Saratoga High School student, who later committed suicide, have been released from juvenile hall and are now placed on home detention.
A fatal stabbing reported Monday afternoon in San Jose is being investigated as a suicide, San Jose police said.
The family of the Saratoga High School student who committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault expressed anger and resentment over a statement issued by the school district.
A school superintendent said Wednesday that officials could not expel three teenage boys charged with sexually battering a classmate last fall.
Charges against three teen boys were heard in Santa Clara Juvenile Court Tuesday in connection with the alleged Sept. 2 sexual assault on a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who later committed suicide.
The family of a girl who committed suicide after she was sexually assaulted and a photo of the act was shared in text messages say they are outraged by what they see as a refusal to take responsibility by the three boys arrested in the attack.
San Quentin death row inmate Justin Alan Helzer, who was convicted in 2004 of five murders in Concord and in Marin County in 2000, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell Sunday, San Quentin State Prison Lt. Sam Robinson said this afternoon.
Authorities say the three boys arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a 15-year-old Saratoga High student who later took her own life were initially cited on misdemeanor allegations in the case.
Family members of a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who killed herself after photos of a sexual assault surfaced online said on Friday they suspect the attackers tried to destroy evidence.
Three teenage boys were arrested at school Thursday in connection with the alleged sexual assault in Saratoga last fall of a 15-year-old girl who later committed suicide, a sheriff's spokesman said.
A man apparently upset over a breakup shot and injured his ex-girlfriend and her mother at their Antioch home on Tuesday night before turning the gun on himself, a police lieutenant said Wednesday.
Military veterans are taking their own lives at an alarming rate. A facility in the Napa Valley is looking to counter the trend.
A first of its kind survey in California has looked at mental health disparities for gays. The findings were released Monday in Pleasant Hill.
Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has reportedly committed suicide. CBS Los Angeles Reports...
