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Authorities say a Virginia girl’s dog stopped her from being abducted by biting a man who grabbed her.

Animal control officials say they have rescued 122 cats and kittens from a squalid Pennsylvania home and transported them to a North Philadelphia facility for medical evaluations. Officials say the homeowners had planned on opening a sanctuary but were unable to keep up with the cats’ rapid rate of reproduction. The owners voluntarily surrendered the animals. The cats, most of...

Two Vallejo men were arrested Monday on suspicion of robbing the Lululemon store in Montgomery Village in Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa police said.

San Jose police are investigating the city’s third homicide of 2015, according to Sgt. Heather Randol.

A litter of terrier puppies left for trash in January at a Pleasant Hill park are now up for adoption. After weeks of recovery with a foster family, the three male puppies are in good health and ready for a brighter future.

The city of Palo Alto on Monday agreed to pay over a half-million dollars to a man who sued the city this year after he said Palo Alto police unlawfully detained and assaulted him outside his mobile home in 2018.

A settlement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in Palo Alto after a violent arrest in February 2018 involving a gay man who alleged officers used excessive force and mocked his homosexuality.

A video showing the dramatic moment a kidnapped 8-year-old Fort Worth girl was rescued by police was released on Monday.

Santa Clara County sheriff’s detectives Monday were trying to trace several stolen items back to their owners after arresting six people in connection with a series of vehicle break-ins in Cupertino.

Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputies investigating the abduction and death of a tech executive last month have increased the financial reward for help identifying suspects to $150,000 – but only if the tipster comes forward by Dec. 30.

A Sonoma County woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of possessing a check that was stolen from a Geyserville home that was evacuated during the Kincade Fire, a Sonoma County sheriff’s sergeant said Tuesday.

A suspect in a fatal shooting Oct. 19 in San Jose has been arrested, police said Sunday.

A man armed with a knife was shot and killed by a contracted security guard at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Santa Teresa Light Rail Station in San Jose on Wednesday night, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

A 30-year-old East Palo Alto man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after being seen slamming a small dog onto the ground while recording it with his phone in Redwood Shores last weekend, Redwood City police said.

A two-alarm fire in Sonoma County just east of the Sonoma city limits early Monday morning is believed to have been intentionally set, according to sheriff’s office officials.

A man was shot and killed Saturday night, and a second man wounded, in downtown San Jose, police said, the city’s 31st homicide of 2019.