A glass meth pipe and thong underwear found in a locked closet, a blindfold found inside a nightstand drawer, and sex toys found behind a mirror on the floor. Those are just a few of the items Livermore police detectives removed from the living quarters of Father Van Dinh inside the rectory of St. Michael Catholic Church as they investigated...

Insiders tell NBC Bay Area that the sober living business is in desperate need of oversight. After getting treatment for drug addiction, sober homes are places, usually single-family homes, people can live together and support each other’s efforts to quit drugs and alcohol. But there’s no government oversight, no inspection, no licensing at all in California. State regulators can only...

A police report obtained by NBC Bay Area seemingly contradicts statements by Nebraska Athletic Department officials this week that they only knew police in California were trying to contact Washington, and little else beyond that.

A star football player from the Bay Area, now a running back for the University of Nebraska, faces criminal charges under California’s relatively new “revenge porn” law in connection to a video of a 15-year-old Bay Area teen allegedly being sexually assaulted, according to court records obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.

An East Bay family filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this month after their three-year-old daughter was crushed by a play structure at Park Side Preschool. State inspectors issued two violations to the preschool noting the swing was improperly installed.

The Palo Alto Unified School District says it’s now keeping better track of when its students are hospitalized for mental health issues and has put other measures in place to help ensure students get help before reaching a crisis point. The district was previously unable to provide that data to NBC Bay Area for a story that aired early last...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is again declining to file charges against a former water polo coach at a prestigious San Jose Catholic school for girls accused of sexually molesting a student in 2013. In March of last year, Grace Leonis told NBC Bay Area she was just 14, a freshman at Presentation High School, when her 24-year-old...

The personal journey of investigative reporter Vicky Nguyen’s family from Saigon, to Malaysia, then finally the United States.