Oakland CA

Prosecutors charged him with special-circumstance murder and first-degree burglary.

Video corroborates accounts that KitKat, the Mission bodega cat, stood in front of the Waymo for a few seconds before he was killed. Video of KitKat killing by Waymo undercuts company’s claim

A former San Francisco city official admitted guilt on Thursday to orchestrating a massive theft of taxpayer money, confessing to embezzling more than $600,000 from the city’s workers’ compensation division and facilitating a kickback scheme involving other public employees. Stanley Ellicott, the former assistant...

The suspect in a San Ramon DUI crash that killed a 41-year-old Castro Valley woman over Thanksgiving weekend was charged with second-degree murder, police said Thursday.

Tenderloin beat cops turned a brief chase into a potentially life-saving gun grab this week, disarming an armed robbery suspect after a foot pursuit and struggle, according to San Francisco police. Officers discovered a pistol tucked into the suspect’s waistband during the encounter, the department said yesterday,...

A pre-dawn break-in at a Hess Hill construction site in American Canyon turned into a two-city police drama early Thursday, ending with one getaway car stuck in marshland along Highway 37, another ditched in Oakland, and roughly $90,000 in stolen tools and equipment recovered. Two suspects were arrested and booked...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for killing a 19-year-old man during an attempted robbery in San Francisco’s Portola district in 2020, prosecutors said.

The victim, a 31-year-old University of California San Francisco social worker, was attacked by a suspect wielding a kitchen knife and suffered multiple stab wounds in the attack, according to the San Francisco Sheriff's Office.

At 92 years old, Bill Baker has lived a long life — but he often speaks only about a small portion of it from more than 70 years ago. “I'm good at answering questions,” he said. “That's what I do, and I can answer questions all day long.” For more than 10 years now, that’s been his main occupation, but he was in a...

U.S. prosecutors charged a man with assaulting an ICE officer, marking at least the second criminal case to stem from clashes between protesters and federal agents in San Francisco this summer.