3+ hour, 23+ 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…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (566+ 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…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (950+ words) A Sonoma County jury on Friday, Sept. 11, found former Windsor Mayor Domonic Foppoli liable for sexual assault claims going back to 2001. Seven women sued Foppoli in civil court in 2022, about a year after allegations against him surfaced. The trial in…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (137+ words) The County of Mendocino and its Office of Emergency Services, also known as MendoReady, use the Genasys Protect emergency map, a free public safety and emergency alert platform, that includes a grid of zones utilized for issuing mandatory evacuation orders…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (327+ words) A man suspected in an arson fire two months ago has been arrested on suspicion of setting two more fires this week in Santa Rosa amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to the high 90s. Officers and firefighters…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1226+ words) The federal civil rights lawsuit, filed Sept. 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is brought on behalf of the former couple’s three children — twin 2-year-old daughters and a now 1-year-old son living with their legal guardians,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (973+ words) Shelina Moreda’s recent political candidacies have been the subject of mild controversy. Now, amid her bid for Petaluma mayor, it has come to light that a former boyfriend obtained last year a restraining order against Moreda, alleging she stalked him,…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (194+ words) WALNUT CREEK — A man from Boston was arrested at a local burger joint and police allege he professed his love for a 15-year-old girl, exchanged lewd images with her on Snapchat, and sexually abused her in the Bay Area, court…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (132+ words) A man is in critical condition Tuesday, Sept. 8, after being found unconscious in Sonoma Plaza, authorities said. The man, whose name wasn’t released, was discovered about 10:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, near the fountain along First Street East in downtown Sonoma, according…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1096+ words) Arguing in a packed courtroom that Dominic Foppoli has a history of preying upon women, one of the attorneys for seven women suing the former Windsor mayor told a Sonoma County jury he is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” who…...