Jury convicts Bay Area man for 2021 road rage shooting
A Solano County Superior Court jury on Wednesday convicted a 47-year-old Fairfield man of a 2021 road rage shooting in Fairfield. Marcial Cardenas Pineda faces up to 19 years in …
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Santa Clara County knew of parents’ drug use, neglect
SAN JOSE – Looking back, it was hard to miss the signs that foretold the tragedy of Phoenix Castro’s short life. Two months before the baby’s birth, her pregnant mother …
Police praise license plate readers, privacy loss worries others
Every time someone drives in or out of Morgan Hill, an automated camera takes a swift snapshot of the license plate. A web of 50 cameras form a virtual net …
A Fremont man’s armed romantic rival allegedly taped security camera and broke into his home. What followed was a life-or-death struggle
FREMONT — Faced with a decision to either accept an armed intruder’s challenge to a fight or flee, a city resident jumped from the second story balcony of his Walnut …
Antioch residents call for resignation of police chief, other supervisors
ANTIOCH — Multiple community organizers are calling for the city’s acting police chief and the president of its police officers’ union to step down amid revelations that they and other …
Oakland police sergeant acted in self-defense in fatal shooting
OAKLAND — An Oakland police sergeant fatally shot a man Tuesday morning near City Hall after the man confronted him with a pistol and they exchanged gunfire, according to the …
Watsonville-based farm owners charged with involuntary manslaughter after 2020 employee death
WATSONVILLE — The owner of a Watsonville-based farm has been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to the 2020 death of one of his employees in a workplace incident, …
An Oakley woman insisted she would never deliberately crash the car with her kids inside. But her daughter had been filming, police say
OAKLEY — In the aftermath of the crash that killed 21-year-old Edward Morgan, his mother granted a police interview in which she tried to explain how her Chrysler PT Cruiser …
Months after ordering investigation, Alameda DA Pamela Price quietly brings prosecutors back to work
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price recently ordered three veteran prosecutors to return from administrative leave for the first time since a tumultuous staff shakeup that dominated the opening weeks …
Alameda family was followed home from shopping center, robbed at gunpoint, police say
ALAMEDA — Police here have arrested one of two men suspected of following a family of seven from a shopping center to their Alameda home and robbing them at gunpoint, …