Christopher Anderson avoids prison with a no-contest gun plea, swapping out alleged robbery and assault counts from an East Oakland motel.

A second alarm brought 10 fire rigs and 40 personnel to the Rose Court blaze before dawn Wednesday.

A welfare check on Meadow Glen Way turned into a standoff Tuesday before two children were rescued unharmed.

A 2-1 appellate ruling keeps Charles Gideon Korrell's dismissal intact, but prosecutors say he still dodged a conviction.

Earlier fatal pedestrian collisions on Highway 92 in San Mateo include incidents near Delaware Street and South El Camino Real and 17th Avenue.

Two people needed extrication after a Tuesday morning crash north of Bale Lane; the highway reopened shortly after 9 a.m.

A store employee traded gunfire with a masked, rifle-wielding robber in August — now police say they've made three arrests.

James Ray Gary, held four years in the deaths of two women, awaits a judge’s review of psychiatric interview reports as his case remains on hold.

A man died and another was critically hurt in back-to-back Vallejo shootings Tuesday, as a separate crash a half-mile away also killed one person.

A UCLA student and a UC Santa Cruz student from Downey, along with a Soledad teen, died when a Honda veered into oncoming traffic south of Salinas.

Firefighters knocked down a small blaze on San Rafael Hill Tuesday morning and told residents no further action is needed.

A woman was pronounced dead at the scene after a driver fled the crash near North Capitol Avenue late Monday. CHP says the vehicle remains undescribed.

A 16-year-old runaway from Southern California had a lump on her forehead when officers found her in Jordan Sanders's car, police say.