A California appeals court handed a victory to the ACLU of Northern CA on Friday, finding that the city must release an investigator’s report into officers bending the tips of their badges to mark shootings at the Vallejo Police Department. vallejosun.com/appeals-court-…

Weeks after she was allegedly raped by a supervisor at her Walnut Creek arts school, a girl called him and said she was pregnant keeping the baby. Police say he begged her not to, stating his life would be ruined...but the cops were on the call: mercurynews.com/2025/07/01/ple…

No, Andrew Hall is not trying to just get early release from parole. He's trying to get the whole conviction quashed, which seems all but guaranteed to happen. It's all thanks to a law intended to help prison firefighters re-enter society: mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/in-…

Detectives approached the case with a simple premise: Find the mother and you’ve likely found the murderer. mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/no-…

Charged with murder at 19, she suffered dozens of seizures and eventually paralysis at Santa Rita Jail. After years of this, prosecutors decided they couldn't prove their case and dismissed it: eastbaytimes.com/2025/07/03/she…

They gathered for a surprise party dripping in stolen jewels, fanning out cash, sharing a cake adorned with sugary dice and $100 bills. Now the feds have the footage and they're using it to argue for lengthy prison sentences: mercurynews.com/2025/08/15/aft…

New court filings accuse Hayward police investigators of misleading the coroner into determining a shooting was homicide, not suicide, and submitting false sworn statements along the way: mercurynews.com/2025/08/28/hay…

Turns out it is about so much more than just the big old dangling penis: mercurynews.com/2025/09/05/an-… Shomik Mukherjee

Governor Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom Benicia’s mayor says $10M is at stake if the refinery closes. Bay Area transit drives billions in CA’s economy, yet even a loan to keep buses and trains running is proving difficult to negotiate. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Immediately after the shooting, audience members screamed and fell to the ground, with some attendees lying on top of others to protect them. “Where is my son?” a woman in the crowd yelled. (Photos by Trent Nelson) sltrib.com/news/2025/09/1…

NEW: CA Supreme Court rejects Vallejo's last-ditch attempt to conceal the badge-bending report. openvallejo.org/2025/09/17/sta…

#BREAKING: Ex-Antioch cop Devon Wenger found GUILTY of violating civil rights, US Attorney confirms. His other charge was dismissed by the judge during trial: mercurynews.com/2025/09/18/ex-…

Shocking to me that a 15-year-old being trafficked from Honduras, sold all around SF and raped in a backyard shed in San Leandro for months has gotten such little attention: mercurynews.com/2025/09/18/she…

It's important to have a fallback plan: mercurynews.com/2025/09/23/his…

The Fairfield resident accused of 2 cold case murders is also an Oakland deacon who built the Olive Branch Missionary Baptist Church in 1969 and took it over after his father, the pastor, died in 2008: eastbaytimes.com/2025/09/27/he-…

An Oakland murder defendant has been released after a defense bail motion described his victim as a vagrant/drug user who believed he had a sovereign right to squat at the defendant's dead mom's home: mercurynews.com/2025/10/03/i-a…

The drummer for a local metal band is apparently a registered sex offender, and now he's in jail facing an federal exploitation charge that carries a minimum 15 years: eastbaytimes.com/2025/10/06/bre…

Danville cheer coach's defense: He meant to send video of himself masturbating to prostitute, not teen girl: mercurynews.com/2025/10/13/dan…

#BREAKING: Police had a murder suspect in custody, but then he was released from a Contra Costa jail. Sheriff's office says its investigating how this happened: mercurynews.com/2025/10/27/con…

It kinda sucks that every year whoever's doing the WS makes it pretty obvious who they're rooting for. If one team is behind and the announcers sound like they're going to cry and all they can talk about is how the losers could come back, that's gonna be very obvious to people.