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Defense attorneys for Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena have filed a motion seeking a “significant” reduction in his $750,000 bail on 36 involuntary manslaughter charges for a 2016 fire at the Oakland building that killed 36 people.

Eight teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fatal attack on a Long Island high school student during an after-school fight.

Eye-opening and frustrating. That’s how Millard Billings, a juror in the Ghost Ship trial, described what it was like to decide the fate of Derick Almena and Max Harris.

Deliberations in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse trial resumed Tuesday after a nearly two-week break, and no verdict was reached.

An Oakland police officer testified Tuesday that he shut down an illegal rave party at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland about 21 months before a fire during a party there in December 2016 that killed 36 people.

Ghost Ship warehouse creative director Max Harris said Monday that there weren’t any hard and fast rules at the 10,000-square-foot building in Oakland where 36 people died in a fire during a music party in 2016.

A camera caught a man apparently stealing underwear during a recent open house in San Mateo.

Police are searching for a man suspected of stealing underwear from a home during an open house in San Mateo. The homeowner noticed the man having a bulge under his jacket that was not there when he first came in. Laura Sambol reports.

Police have found two children with their biological mother after the kids were taken from a home where their foster mother was shot in southwest Miami-Dade Friday morning.

A federal judge who was arrested last week for allegedly threatening the mother of his child with a gun is dead after he shot and killed himself following a lengthy police standoff at a southwest Miami-Dade home that ended Friday morning.

A 16-month-old boy is dead after his father reportedly beat or stabbed him Sunday afternoon outside an apartment building, according to Lewisville police.

Lawyers for the two men charged in the Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36 people said Friday they are now preparing for a trial where they will try to shift blame for the blaze from their clients to others, including the building’s owner and government officials.

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley has told a judge she will no longer consider plea deals for two men charged in a 2016 warehouse fire that killed 36 people attending an unlicensed concert.

Two men accepted plea bargains with prison time Tuesday after each was charged with dozens of counts of involuntary manslaughter in an Oakland warehouse fire that killed partygoers at an unlicensed concert.

A robber on Long Island who used a surgical mask as a disguise turned himself in after police say his mother recognized him after seeing him on TV.

A judge Friday denied a bid by Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena’s lawyers to have him released on his own recognizance as he fights the charges against him for his role in the fire that killed 36 people at the Oakland warehouse district in December 2016.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge granted an unusual motion Tuesday to allow the use of public money to cover the cost of defending Max Harris, who stands accused of 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. “It’s unusual, but under extreme circumstances the law does allow for it,” Harris’ lead attorney…

An Oakland fire captain testified Tuesday that Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena told him in September 2014 that no one was living at the structure in Oakland’s Fruitvale district where 36 people perished in a fire last year.

Two off-duty Oakland firefighters were shot, one fatally, in San Jose’s Japantown on Thursday night, and a 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the crime, police say.

Family, friends and fellow firefighters gathered Friday to transport the body of Jake Walter from Santa Clara County back to Oakland.