Cheryl Hurd

“The sunset was red and smoky because of all the smoke from all the tragedy.”

The Vallejo Police Department once again is being accused of using excessive force, this time involving a car full of young women, and part of the exchange was caught on cellphone video.

An East Bay mother is frustrated and wants answers after her 5-year-old was allowed to walk 2.6 miles from his school to his home alone.

Time Magazine reported Friday that it has obtained exclusive documents that show the U.S. Navy is planning to construct detention centers to house tens of thousands of immigrants in Alabama, Arizona and California, including the former Naval Weapons Station in Concord, about 30 miles from San Francisco. Cheryl Hurd reports.

A 28-year-old former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences said Tuesday he’s exploring all his legal options and has already filed a labor complaint over his treatment. James Damore, whose memo over the weekend caused an uproar online, said in an email that he was terminated late Monday for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He...

Parents of Sierra LaMar, the Morgan Hill teenager who went missing while on her way to school five years ago, said they left the Santa Clara County Superior Court with a semblance of peace Tuesday after a jury unanimously found their daughter’s killer guilty.

A 56-year-old man detained in San Francisco in connection with the killings of two adults and two juveniles in Sacramento, has been arrested, police said Friday.

Union City police officers reached for their own wallets after a teenager, whose picture was released Friday, allegedly robbed a 12-year-old’s Girl Scout cookie stand at gunpoint.

Once known as the “crack king” of Oakland, Darryl Reed officially became a free man Wednesday night after he and 110 others were granted clemency by President Barack Obama in September.

San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps, arrested and released this week in the fatal shooting of a man inside his home, applauded the city’s justice system Wednesday during an interview with NBC Bay Area.

Groups of people who want to get their point across are taking advantage of the world stage during Super Bowl week.

A family really wants to know how its dog got from San Mateo to Tijuana and back to the Bay Area.

The family of a woman who committed suicide has filed a claim against the the City of Antioch and a Contra Costa County hospital.

State and federal investigations are underway into a deadly bus crash Tuesday that killed two women thrown from the windows and tied up busy highway traffic until late in the evening.

Three drifters accused of using a stolen gun to rob and kill a Canadian backpacker and a tantra instructor two days apart entered a not guilty plea on Thursday in a Marin County Superior courtroom.

The gun used to kill both a tantra yoga teacher hiking in Fairfax, California, and a Canadian tourist in San Francisco was stolen from a car parked near Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco police revealed in a news conference Friday.

The three suspects arrested in connection to the homicide of a popular tantra teacher in Marin County have been linked to the death of Audrey Carey, a 23-year-old woman found dead in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

Three drifters were arrested Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a tantra massage therapist who went missing while he was out hiking in Marin County, California, with his Doberman pinscher, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.

Marin County Sheriff’s detectives are searching for three “persons of interest” in the shooting death of a 67-year-old hiker and tantric instructor who has taught “love and ecstasy” trainings around the globe.

Health officials said Thursday a patient who was being tested for Ebola in Sacramento has tested negative for the virus.