Vallejo invites federal intervention to help improve relations following police misconduct cases
Vallejo City Manager Greg Nyhoff has formally invited the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Relations Service to help the city "improve community and police relations."
Fox 2 Unsolved: Teen athlete shot dead outside Alameda bowling alley
As a boy, Antwaun Williams loved sports...
Some California state employees wasting time on your dime
In six months, the California State Auditor’s Office uncovered 30 employees at several agencies misused state time and cost the state roughly $150,000. But that's only a sample of eight of the 808 investigations opened by the office.
Calif. AG won't release police records despite court ruling, gets into testy exchange with senator
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday that he won't release older records on state law enforcement agents' misconduct despite a recently released appeals court ruling that they are public documents.
Ghost Ship owners appear in court for first time since deadly fire, refuse to answer questions
For the first time since a deadly fire killed 36 people at a party, two members of the family who own the Ghost Ship warehouse appeared in court with their lawyer on Thursday to face questioning by defense attorneys and prosecutors.
Ghost Ship trial begins with debate over semantics; Oakland's mayor among many subpoenaed
The trial for two men charged in connection with the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire got underway Tuesday morning, where both prosecutors and defense attorneys argued which witnesses and evidence should or should not be presented to the jury, leading to some controversial subjects.
ICE has access to driver location data from police, some in violation of Calif. law: ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday called for an immediate halt to information sharing by police departments with ICE, saying they have records showing that more than 9,000 federal immigration officers have gained access to a database operated by a Bay Area company.
Vallejo police chief retiring, amidst recent criticism of police use of force
A Bay Area police chief whose department has paid out millions in civil rights lawsuits while also facing ongoing allegations of excessive force and racial profiling by his officers on Wednesday announced he is leaving the force after a decades-long career in law enforcement.
Federal monitor calls Oakland chief's findings 'disappointing,' 'myopic' after fatal shooting
A federal monitor overseeing the Oakland Police Department had harsh words of the chief's assessments of what happened last March when officers fatally shot a 31-year-old homeless man, according to internal documents released Wednesday under a new police transparency law.
How prosecutors say the admissions bribery scheme worked
Fifty people were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the nation's most elite universities. According to federal prosecutors, here is how the college admissions bribery scheme worked: THE SCHEME
A mother's struggle: son's homicide case remains unsolved 5 years after murder
Last week, Maria Climaco brought a bouquet of yellow roses to the spot in North Oakland where her son was gunned down five years ago.
KTVU investigation reignites interest in 'The Doodler' serial killer case from the 1970s
San Francisco Police's cold case unit is taking a closer look at an unsolved serial killer case from the 1970s, after questions from KTVU reinvigorated interest in the string of murders.
Unsolved: 1979 Payless murders
"Why did you do it and and did you realize what you did?"
Unsolved: Mother and daughter killed in Fremont in 2004
It was the middle of the night on a Sunday when Maria Hernandez got up to go to work. She usually got a ride from her boyfriend, but for whatever reason, he couldn't take her.
17 year anniversary of unsolved murder that's still "an open wound" for Palo Alto Police Department
Seventeen years ago today, a young woman was shot and killed outside of a Palo Alto nightclub. The killer was never found, the murder weapon was never recovered, and despite interviewing hundreds of people, police could not find one eyewitness.
Unsolved: Hayward woman vanishes in 1971
She was six months out of high school, just starting college and about to start a new job. 19-year-old Christine Eastin, "Christy," as everyone called her, had saved up enough money to buy some boots that she wanted. So she phoned her friend Sandy to go shopping with her at Mervyn's on the night of Jan. 18, 1971.
Mother wants justice for Hayward teen's unsolved homicide, vigil held
On Wednesday evening, family and friends of Lamar Murphy honored his memory with a vigil.
Unsolved: 30 years later, Dublin teen's whereabouts a mystery
At 13, Ilene Misheloff was already an accomplished skater. The 8th-grader was often seen lacing up at Dublin Iceland.
Internal investigation found Emeryville officer lied, was rude, police transparency records show
An Emeryville police officer resigned after an outside investigator found that he had left his jurisdiction to hang out in well-known prostitution areas, lied about his whereabouts and didn’t document why he used force when handcuffing citizens, among other sustained findings against him that were revealed in personnel files released under a new transparency law.