Oakland CA

Oakland police have quietly shelved cash rewards for tipsters after cutting ties with the now-defunct Oakland Crime Stoppers, officials confirmed. The change strips investigators of a long-standing tool to coax witnesses in serious cases and leaves at least one would-be reward recipient saying he is still waiting to...

A late-night argument in a North Oakland store parking lot turned deadly Thursday when a 33-year-old man was shot and later died at a hospital, authorities said. The shooting happened around 10:05 p.m. in a parking lot in the 5900 block of Market Street. Oakland police said an argument broke out and escalated before...

Hundreds gathered Friday night in Oakland for a tribute to coach John Beam and to celebrate his life. It was the first organized memorial for the coach since he was fatally shot on Nov. 13.

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.