42+ min ago   (955+ words) Ahead of Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara this February, local officials touted a partnership with the NFL to provide $200,000 for services for sex trafficking victims as cities across the Bay Area anticipated thousands of football fans pouring into the region…...

12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (271+ words) BERKELEY — Saturday marked the 16th anniversary of the unsolved homicide of Adolfo Ignacio Celedón Bravo and police are once again offering $50,000 to anyone who can help solve the case. On Sept. 12, 2010, Celedón — nicknamed “Fito” — was walking home from a party with…...

14+ hour, 15+ min ago   (457+ words) A federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt construction on a planned detention facility in Gilroy after attorneys for the state of California and Santa Clara County sued to block it on environmental grounds. Judge Eumi K. Lee…...

16+ hour, 31+ min ago   (559+ words) A federal appeals court has taken the unusual step of steering a class-action case to the California Supreme Court, saying the state high court is best suited to resolve the dispute. The case involves past and current members of the…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (531+ words) Fremont and Union City quietly ended their use of a $2.6 million police dispatch system after the newly acquired software “experienced unexpected instability” during service calls. Fremont, which contracts with Union City to provide dispatch services, used computer-aided dispatch software (CAD)…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (444+ words) By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Todd Blanche requesting records related to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial strategy of monitoring — yet not…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (270+ words) SAN JOSE — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of hate crimes and stalking in San Jose, police said. Officers were initially called to the 6400 block of Aspen Creek on Sunday for a report of a “hate-motivated incident,” according to…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (335+ words) OAKLAND — Thirteen felony charges, including attempted murder, were filed Wednesday against an ex-convict in two Oakland shootings last month — one where he allegedly fired at police officers and another where a man was wounded multiple times weeks earlier, according to…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (568+ words) Oakland’s police union recently approved a tentative five-year contract that calls for a 14% wage increase in an effort to recruit and retain officers in the face of major staffing shortages. Now the City Council will have the final say. The…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (454+ words) Two Oakland Police Department officers with the agency’s helicopter unit were arraigned Thursday on several federal charges, including conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration. Brandon Mart and David Mac pleaded not guilty during their first appearance in an Oakland…...