Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

The Board of Supervisors plans to discuss next steps for appointing a replacement district attorney at its Dec. 10 meeting.

The recall last week of two Bay Area officials who both championed progressive crime policies reflects long-held frustrations ...

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price's office filed the charges late Friday accusing ... who filed the charges just days after facing a recall election that she was losing by a wide margin ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

Maurice Monk died in the Santa Rita Jail after languishing for days without care or direly needed medication, and officials ...

Voters in Oakland, California, have ousted Mayor Sheng Thao just two years after she narrowly won office to lead the liberal ...

George Gascón in Los Angeles County and Alameda County’s Pamela Price, lost their positions — Gascón to challenger Nathan Hochman and Price to a recall. Likewise, Proposition 5, a measure to lower the ...

A YES vote was there to punish the AIDS health and housing people who promote rent control. Another big YES vote was there to punish criminals more than we already do. We saw bucketloads of the same ...

“While this sentence does provide a measure of justice for the Tran family, it does little to ease the grief and lasting impact of this deadly act of domestic violence,” said District Attorney Pamela ...