8+ hour, 15+ 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…...

10+ hour, 11+ 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…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (565+ words) San Jose police fired an officer who used the department’s license-plate tracking system to track a woman who had accused his cousin of domestic violence, Chief Paul Joseph disclosed Friday. The incident adds to a growing list of law-enforcement breaches…...

12+ hour, 28+ 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, 6+ hour ago   (1384+ words) Dominic Foppoli, the former Windsor mayor and once a rising star in Sonoma County politics, on Friday, Sept. 11, was ordered to pay more than $13 million in damages to seven women who sued him over claims that he sexually assaulted each…...

1+ day, 9+ 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…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (415+ words) Q: My dog, Stewie, was healthy before I booked a pet sitter through Rover, a pet care service. While he was under the sitter’s exclusive care, he ingested a foreign object and became critically ill. I have Ring camera footage showing…...

2+ day, 6+ 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, 14+ 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…...