A judge let Ronald McGregor drink a strawberry milkshake before he pleaded no contest to killing Oakland handyman Darius Brazell.

Ivana and Lilliana Balistreri's family confronted Zachary Chernicky in court, urging he stay locked up ahead of a November plea.

A warrant on a hillside tent above Green Hills Road led investigators to a man accused of intentionally sparking a quarter-acre blaze.

A woman escaped her alleged abductor near the Embarcadero before OPD's helicopter unit ARGUS tracked the suspect to Uptown.

A Vallejo officer cleared a grape from a toddler's throat before paramedics even arrived on Virginia Street.

Officials say the department has logged just one use-of-force incident since 2019. Critics still worry about surveillance and ICE-style enforcement.

Residents near Capp and Shotwell say the city's bollards and warning letters only pushed the trade onto new streets, not out of the neighborhood.

A woman allegedly struck an SFMTA parking officer twice in the face before bystanders stepped in to separate them.

Northbound lanes at Mission College Boulevard remain closed as investigators work the scene of a deadly collision.

Deputies, tribal police and CHP swarmed Big Hill Road and Marshall Lane after a deadly shooting, hunting a black Toyota Tacoma.

A search of the suspect's Sunnyvale-area home turned up the fake Glock-style handgun after a Turquoise Street standoff.

Felicia Marie Jackson allegedly drove into oncoming traffic and boxed herself into a vacant Rite Aid lot before ramming police.

BAAQMD's preliminary report pins Richmond's Chevron refinery at 37-in-a-million cancer risk. Chevron calls the modeling worst-case and outdated.