Crime and Public Safety

The family of an auto-shop owner killed in East Oakland said Tuesday that he was most likely killed during an argument over a car battery.

Members of the Indigenous community said a silent crisis is causing heartache but is largely unseen by the larger community.

Gruesome new details were revealed Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a UPS driver in Southern California, in what authorities called a "targeted attack."

San Jose police on Tuesday released a video in which a man was seen shattering the window of an ice cream shop, sending large shards of glass all over a child.

If AB 3127 is passed, California doctors will also be required to offer a referral to a local domestic violence program.

San Leandro police arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with a deadly stabbing inside a Safeway store, authorities said.

Authorities said the suspect wounded in a shootout with San Jose police over the weekend was a felon in possession of a firearm.

Home Depot must pay over $1.3 million for fire code violations uncovered during a probe into an arson fire that burned a San Jose store to the ground.

A missing hiker and his dog were found, East Bay Regional Park police said Monday. 

San Jose police shot a man after neighbors called 911 on Sunday afternoon to report that a man was firing a gun in their neighborhood in an alleyway behind an apartment complex – the third officer-involved shooting this year. 

Contra Costa County continues to deal with a shortage of ambulances.

There is now a growing memorial outside an Antioch gas station where 48-year-old Raheem Coe, who was homeless, would often hang out.

The professor charged with manslaughter in the death of an elderly Jewish man at dueling Israel-Palestine protests in Thousand Oaks last year will stand trial, a judge announced Wednesday.

Police are investigating a double shooting in Vallejo that left a woman dead and a man injured.