Ivan “Sergio” Chaparro, a shift supervisor at Berkeley’s Oceanview Diner, was seized while boarding a flight to Las Vegas.

A former Golden Bears pitcher says Chelsea Spencer threatened suicide and cut her playing time after she tried to end their relationship.

A four-month-old DNA match led SWAT officers to a Parchester Village home, ending the hunt for a gunman who terrorized a Hilltop bank customer.

The predawn crash near Harder and Soto roads marks Hayward's fourth traffic death this year. Police say the driver stayed at the scene.

A new blaze near the Altamont Pass has burned 10 acres of private land, marking the fourth fire with the same name since June.

Darrell Hargrove, once busted with his sheriff's-office wife in 2006, is back in custody after a new Alameda County raid.

A shootout at the park's Curry Court basketball courts spiraled into a manhunt, police say. Residents near 22nd Avenue were told to stay indoors.

Police found the man unconscious behind the wheel near Chaparral Park before he died at a hospital.

Carmen Hernandez broke her spine, pelvis and hand crossing tracks near Espee Avenue — now she says Richmond's broken fencing let her get there.

Federal agents say Anthony Robinson bought abuse material with cryptocurrency, then found four guns—including an unserialized AR-15—when they searched his home.

A rental car break-in outside a Chinatown restaurant left a grieving husband without his wife's ashes. Community members are being asked to help find them.

A 21-year OPD veteran who earned $94,000 in overtime last year now faces a grand theft charge tied to a routine audit.

Neighbors couldn't reach the Jefferson Court residents for days before police found both dead inside.