Investigators believe speed was a primary factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a 47-year-old Tracy man early this morning near Blackhawk.

Sherry Heacox of Danville called then-stranger Arthur Mkoyan last month with unimaginable news: she wanted to pay for him to go to college.

A 25-year-old man died behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Caprice on Thursday night after gumen riddled the car with bullets at a well-trafficked south Richmond intersection.

BRENTWOOD — A 34-year-old Oakley woman was killed this morning when her car struck a tree in East Contra Costa County, the California Highway Patrol said.

A jury has indicted 11 suspected gang members on murder and conspiracy charges, beheading a criminal organization that accounts for at least five of San Pablo's killings in the past two years.

A three-alarm fire damaged a music rehearsal studio business Thursday evening.

A 25-year-old man was shot to death Thursday evening. The victim, who Richmond police did not name, was found after officers responded to a report of shots fired at the intersection of Harbour Way South and Cutting Boulevard, police said.

PLEASANT HILL — A woman killed earlier this week when a car crash spilled onto a crosswalk was remembered by her family as a loving mother who poured her heart into the church she served for more than two decades.

West County, Marsh Creek detention facilities will provide 90 beds in state-funded program aimed at keeping parolees from re-entering prison

The money would repair aging schools and buy technology

A couple who received a $210,000 settlement from the city of Richmond after police shot and killed their pit bull are in custody after two of their other pit bulls - abducted from a Sacramento County animal shelter after attacking a utility worker - were...

Wall Street closed mixed Friday after playing out a now familiar scenario: Upbeat sentiment about falling oil prices flagged amid onging concerns about weak credit markets and the economy. The major indexes also turned in a mixed performance after another...

Georgias president grudgingly signed a truce with Russia Friday, even as he denounced the Russians as invading barbarians and accused the West of all but encouraging them to overrun his country. A stone-faced Condoleezza Rice, standing alongside, said...

Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47. The Georgian, Archil Tadianidze, lives in...

Two men claim theyve bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the...

Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who helped shape R&B music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other greats, and later made key recordings with the likes of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, has died, said his son, Paul. He was...