Crime and Public Safety

Dozens of businesses in Oakland held a one-day strike to protest crime and city’s response to public safety.

The families of an engaged couple killed in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland said the suddenness of what happened has left them devastated. 

Police in Union City are asking the public to help them locate a missing 13-year-old boy.  

A man wrongly accused of murdering a 6-year-old Vallejo boy in 1987 died before being exonerated by DNA evidence, the Solano County district attorney said Tuesday after charging a second man in the slaying.

The race for San Francisco mayor is heating up and now has 29 candidates vying for the position. 

Retail giant Target blamed crime for its decision to close three stores in the Bay Area and several more around the country.

A nanny for an East Bay family is accused of producing and distributing child porn, prosecutors said.

With the rise in Oakland’s crime rate a reigning concern for many of the city's residents and businesses, new figures showed that the number of auto thefts have hit an astounding 10,823 so far this year. That’s an average of more than 40 vehicles stolen a day.

Oakland Vietnamese staple Le Cheval is the latest restaurant to close its doors due to crime. Meanwhile, merchants all over Oakland plan to go on strike after Oakland failed to meet the deadline that would grant them state funding for retail crime.

Oakland merchants closed their doors Tuesday to protest crime that is hurting their businesses.

Cheers and applause filled the room on Monday as 49 men and women graduated from the 177th academy of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Regional Training Center.

Jonah Roper, the man accused of stabbing his 60-year-old mother to death in the Berkeley hills on Saturday, has a lengthy criminal history spanning nearly two decades, court records show. 

In the Berkeley hills, a normally very quiet neighborhood was disrupted and had neighbors heartbroken over what occurred Saturday afternoon.