Deputy Chief

Attorneys for victims of the October 2017 fire that left 22 people dead and destroyed whole neighborhoods in Santa Rosa contend Cal Fire got it wrong by excluding the utility as having sparked the fire.

Police searched Monday for two assailants who sneaked into a backyard party in Fresno and opened fire while a small crowd watched football on television. Four people were killed and six wounded.

San Francisco homicides may drop this year to their lowest level in 17 years, according to new numbers released by the Police Department Wednesday.

A 30-year-old man died in Manhattan after the elevator he was trying to exit apparently malfunctioned and trapped him, pinning him between the elevator car and the shaft wall, officials say.

In another tragedy for the NYPD, a veteran police officer died by suicide in his Queens home Wednesday evening, police said — the seventh member of the force to do so in the last 10 weeks and the second in just two days.

A fifth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last two months, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

A woman who was struck and killed by a Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit train in Rohnert Park Thursday morning ignored the crossing arms and tried to run across the tracks when she was hit, according to the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety.

Surveillance footage captured a hit-and-run crash that forced a family of five’s SUV to flip Wednesday.

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea attacked and killed its owner when the man fell on his property in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety arrested a driver on suspicion of possessing heroin and reckless driving after he crashed his vehicle into a public safety vehicle Wednesday.

A firefighter who sued to keep a beard he grew for religious reasons has shaved it off after a judge denied his request.

South Bay law enforcement officers met with community members Tuesday to discuss a relatively-new California law that gives the public access to police records in an effort to increase transparency.

Miami Beach is adding dozens of additional officers this upcoming weekend as the city will be cracking down on out of control spring breakers.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit is slowly including the South Bay into its service with the start of construction on Tuesday to prepare for three underground stations. Construction of the VTA’s BART Phase II Project won’t be significantly visible in its early stage but the area of E. Santa Clara and N 3rd Streets will see trucks, drilling equipment and...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine has received millions of dollars in severance from Fox News Channel’s parent company and is owed millions more, a new financial disclosure report shows.

A five-alarm fire ripped through a sprawling residential construction site in Oakland early Tuesday morning, marking the latest in a series of massive blazes that have ignited at under-construction housing complexes in the East Bay in recent years.

One law enforcement officer was killed and six others wounded Wednesday in a shooting in Florence County, S.C. Officials said the suspected shooter was in custody.

Seven South Carolina law enforcement officers were shot Wednesday, one fatally, in a confrontation with a man who held children hostage as he fired on the officers, officials said. The suspect was taken into custody and the children weren’t hurt after a two-hour standoff in an upscale neighborhood just outside of Florence, not far from areas that were devastated by...

An Army National Guard pilot has died from his injuries after a small plane he was piloting with his brother on a trip to scatter his father’s ashes crashed into a Massachusetts pond. Thirty-four-year-old Scott Landis died from his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital following the Friday afternoon crash near Cranland Airport in Hanson, the Plymouth district attorney’s office announced...