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Police chief seeks meeting with Norteno gang leaders
Police Chief Ron Davis called the weekend fatal shooting of a 16-year-old the last straw, prompting him to declare a crime emergency in East Palo Alto and to pursue a meeting with gang leaders. The police chief said he intended to organize a "call-in" with Norteno gang members and community ...
Police: Antioch man found dead was killed in self-defense
A man whose body was discovered near an Antioch apartment complex last week was killed in an act of self-defense, according to prosecutors and police. Police said officers responded to a report of a possible dead body near the entrance to an apartment complex in the 3400 block of Hudson ...
81-year-old man killed in SJ crosswalk collision
Investigators are trying to reach the family of an 81-year-old man struck and killed in a crosswalk Monday night in East San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office. The medical examiner's office will not release the man's name until investigators can confirm the victim's family has ...
Witness: 18-year-old admitted killing two teen girls
A reluctant juvenile witness testified Tuesday that 18-year-old Diantay Powell fatally shot two teenage girls near Brookdale Park in East Oakland last November after an argument over another woman he was seeing. The juvenile, who nearly was found in contempt of court because he refused to testify at one point, ...
5-year-old girl killed in crash in Richmond identified
A young girl killed in a rollover crash in Richmond on Monday morning has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as 5-year-old Xaniah Jackson, of San Pablo. Xaniah was ejected from an SUV that flipped in a crash at the intersection of Richmond Parkway and Hilltop Drive ...
Sonoma Co. jury finds Herczog was insane when he killed his father
A Sonoma County jury Tuesday found a man convicted of murdering his father at their Rincon Valley home in November 2011 was insane at the time of the crime. The defense attorney for Houston Herczog, 22, had argued that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was not sane when he ...
State to post raw campaign filings online daily
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has agreed to expand the way her office presents campaign finance data online after initially rejecting the request from a coalition of good-government groups, research organizations and newspapers, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Secretary of State's Office will make California's entire campaign finance and ...
Union City teacher arraigned on molestation charges
An elementary school teacher in Union City has been formally charged with dozens of counts of inappropriately touching several of his students. Michael William Howey, 47, of Alameda, did not enter a plea during his arraignment Monday in an Alameda County courtroom on 17 counts of lewd and lascivious acts ...
Friends, family searching for man who went missing after B2B
Friends, family and co-workers were searching again Tuesday for an Emeryville man who went missing near San Francisco's Ocean Beach following the Bay to Breakers race two days before. Beau Rasmussen, 27, became separated from his friends around noon, and about eight hours later, his belongings were found by a ...
SF authorities investigating spike in animal cruelty cases
Animal control officers in San Francisco are seeing an increase in animal cruelty cases and on Monday night asked for the public's help solving a particularly disturbing and extreme recent incident involving a ten-month-old puppy. The female puppy was brought to the San Francisco animal shelter Monday morning. Animal Care ...
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