A routine Safeway parking lot check turned up five suspected Molotov cocktails and a taped-up knife, police say.

CHP deactivated an Ebony Alert for a teen last seen in Castro Valley after she was located.

The driver sped off after striking the woman on Ashby Avenue, leaving her without a pulse as paramedics raced her to Highland Hospital.

Police say hidden cameras turned up at a bagel shop and a Taco Bell near UC Berkeley. Detectives now worry there are more victims.

Sharriyah Conner, 14, vanished from Oakland nearly a week ago. Her family says she has mental health challenges.

Andrew Ruiz's plea deal proposed probation and no sex-offender registration, pending court approval. The alleged renewed abuse occurred two weeks before he signed it.

Three men ages 19, 22 and 36 were hit by gunfire near 71st and International. Police say they know each other but can't yet say who was targeted.

Officer Khatanbaatar Batzorig testified he found a bullet hole on the trunk; prosecutors said it lined up with his seat. The suspect once served under four years for a similar 2015 shooting.

Seven or eight diners were inside when a pickup tore through the front of a Concord eatery, knocking out a support pillar.

Police found the victim in a traffic lane on West Grand Avenue. No arrests have been made.

Several women reported a balding man in his 30s asking for personal details at Plaza 580 near Las Positas Road.

Jaray Washington used the same purple pistol in all eight stickups, prosecutors said. His accomplice got 36 months.

A former neighbor says groups of men filed into a backyard tent at Phillip Garrido’s Antioch home for years while Jaycee Dugard was held captive next door.