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(KRON) — Police in the Bay Area are crediting newer technologies in helping to locate lost loved ones. An elderly man and an elderly woman who recently went missing in separate incidents across the region were found after being tracked through automated license plate reader cameras in one case, and an Apple AirTag in...

Oakland Unified and other school districts in California are experiencing a decline in new immigrant students due to changes in immigration policies, raising concerns that newcomer programs may be scaled back.

After two mistrials and months of legal wrangling, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has dropped the murder charge against Elijah Rucker, who had been accused in the fatal shooting of 4-year-old Romell Wright. The shooting happened around 8 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2024, on the 1700 block of 89th Avenue in East...

A judicial hearing on the terms of Ken Mattson’s bail got boisterous Wednesday in San Francisco when a U.S. District Court judge began talking about renewed jail time. The two sides were discussing the value of a house on La Salle Avenue in Piedmont — owned by Mattson’s wife, Stacy — and whether there were...

Police in Livermore busted a vehicle theft operation allegedly being carried out by two teenagers, the department said Wednesday. Between Oct. 17 and 19, several reports of stolen Infiniti cars came into the Livermore Police Department, as well as the report of multiple attempted vehicle thefts. Article continues...

(KRON) — The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said detectives from its narcotics task force made an arrest following a lengthy investigation into an alleged drug trafficking operation in the East Bay. ACSO said Erik Salas, 26, of San Lorenzo, was taken into a custody Tuesday after a search warrant was served at his...

The family of Marcel Dupree Jones, an unhoused Black man shot and killed in what authorities have described as a hate crime, has sued the man charged with his murder, along with the nonprofit that runs the Northwest Berkeley homeless shelter where Jones was killed and the city of Berkeley, which funds the nonprofit.

A late-night drive turned into a shooting scene in East Oakland yesterday when a 31-year-old man was hit multiple times while sitting in his parked car on the 6700 block of Eastlawn Street. The gunfire erupted at about 11:32 PM, and the victim was struck at least twice before being rushed to a hospital, where he was...

Antioch police say during the investigation into the 16 burglaries, they found that the incidents are all related. No particular neighborhood in any of the cities is being targeted, but all of the crimes follow the same pattern.

Oakland’s public hospital network is staring at a nine-figure budget crater that could take hundreds of jobs with it. Alameda Health System has warned its Board of Trustees that federal changes to Medicaid could blow roughly a $100 million hole in its 2027 finances and trigger deep staff reductions across its East...