Crime and Public Safety

More than two years after the disappearance of 24-year-old Alexis Gabe in Antioch, family and friends gathered at a pizza joint in her hometown of Oakley on Wednesday night for a watch party of an hour-long episode of On the Case with Paula Zahn, titled "Where is Alexis?"

The D.A.’s Office may face $6 million in budget cuts, and some of the staff positions needed to prosecute the cases may be eliminated.

Police are investigating the death of a man found inside a vehicle in Stockton early Wednesday morning.   

Police in Redwood City have arrested a man suspected of swiping a package off a porch that contained a woman's expensive wedding dress, the department said Wednesday.   

The former president of a San Jose school association was arrested for grand theft and forgery from the association, which happened over a four-year period, police say. 

Police are investigating a home invasion and assault with a deadly weapon on Wednesday, according to the Oakland Police Department. 

A teen missing from the East Bay was found dead in San Francisco and her family is desperate to find out what happened.

The owner of a vegan restaurant in Oakland said he is filled with a range of emotions after his establishment was hit for a fourth time by burglars.

A devastated community in the East Bay was mourning the loss of a 6-year-old boy, who was killed by a suspected intoxicated driver in an alleged hit-and-run. 

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced plans on Tuesday to institute a curfew in a part of the Tenderloin in order to help curb crime in the area, the Mayor's office confirmed.

An Oakland woman has accepted a plea deal in the fatal shooting death of a Home Depot worker in Pleasanton in 2023, court records show.

Two Bay Area schools dealt with threats that ended up being hoaxes on Monday. In both instances there was a heavy police response nonetheless. 

Authorities are investigating the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy near a skate park in Healdsburg.

The City of Walnut Creek is mourning the death of a former police officer and high school sports coach, who died in the line of duty while working as a sheriff's deputy in Idaho.

A man was stabbed outside a North Beach church in broad daylight Sunday afternoon, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

Five people who work as security staff at a Petaluma bar were arrested Saturday night after allegedly beating a patron, police said.   

An illegal sideshow sent one motorcyclist to a hospital Saturday evening after he collided with a car near Oakland's Lake Merritt.