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NBC 6 was there when federal agents arrested a South Florida doctor for manslaughter after one of her patients overdosed on oxycodone.

The principal of Pittsburg Unified School District’s adult education program is clinging to life after being shot by his wife during a domestic dispute early Saturday, according to authorities.

The principal of Pittsburg Unified School District’s adult education program is clinging to life after being shot by his wife during a domestic dispute early Saturday, according to authorities.

A man wanted for tampering with “consumer products” at grocery stores in the Bay Area and Southern California has been apprehended by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.

A man was taken into custody late Friday night in a Concord residential neighborhood with the help of a California Highway Patrol helicopter crew, Concord police said tonight.

A Texas sheriff’s deputy is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl and threatening the child’s mother, an undocumented immigrant, with deportation if she reported him.

A Santa Clara man was arrested last week on suspicion of child porn possession and other sex crimes, the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department said Monday.

A nonprofit program called Cell Dogs is connecting rescue dogs with qualified inmates who train and discipline their four-legged companions. After eight to 12 weeks, the dogs will be released to a new home … trained to obey.

Police late Friday are searching for a woman who escaped custody in the vicinity of a Contra Costa County jail, authorities said.

An off-duty Santa Clara County correctional deputy was arrested Monday on suspicion of child molestation, according to the San Jose Police Department.

A 36-year-old inmate at the Santa Clara County Jail died after he was rushed to a hospital, officials announced late Tuesday.

The judge who sentenced killed inmate Michael Tyree speaks out on the issue of the mentally ill in jails and prisons.

Authorities in the California city where two women and three young girls were found slain over the weekend said Monday that investigators are also looking into last year’s death of the 2-year-old son of one of the victims.

A San Francisco resident was arrested Thursday on suspicion of shooting a man during Pride festivities Saturday, police said.

A new report released Tuesday shows that African Americans in San Francisco run a greater risk of being arrested than Caucasians.

Lebanese-American singer and music teacher Naima Shalhoub will record a live album at San Francisco County Jail.

Former Calif. State Senator Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud, served half an hour of a 90-day sentence behind bars on the night of Friday, Oct. 31.