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

A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

Consumers may think they’re avoiding the crush this holiday season by shopping online, unaware that as they’re trying to get through the digital doors, so too are hordes of bots. And they’re throwing elbows, NBC News reports. Up to 97 percent of all online traffic to retailer login pages this holiday shopping week comes from bots, largely operated by organized...

A pilot who reported having engine trouble was discovered dead on Tuesday morning, the Marin County Sheriff said, and crews found pieces of the wreckage from his small aircraft in a hilly area near Novato.

As technology gets smaller and cheaper, more people are choosing to equip their homes with wireless security cameras. But an NBC Bay Area Investigation found that many of these devices contain a security loophole that could allow strangers to peek into your privacy, whether they want to or not. Senior Investigative Reporter Vicky Nguyen reports in a story that aired...

A garbage war is brewing in the East Bay. Sanitation workers running routes in Piedmont say their pleas to fix unsafe conditions have gone unanswered for years. They turned to the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit to expose the hazards they say employees have faced every day for nearly a decade. Investigative Reporter Liz Wagner reports in a story that...

Security forces shot dead 40 anti-government protesters in over 24 hours amid spiraling violence in the capital and Iraq’s south, security and medical officials said, one day after an Iranian consulate was torched. Iran condemned the burning of its consulate in the holy city of Najaf as violence continued into the night across southern Iraq, where security forces had killed...

President Donald Trump has signed a bill that makes certain acts of animal cruelty a federal felony, saying it’s important for the nation to combat “heinous and sadistic acts of cruelty.” The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act prohibits extreme acts of cruelty when they occur in interstate commerce or on federal property. The legislation expands on a 2010 law...

The mayor of San Jose is up and walking in a hospital after being struck by an SUV while bicycling on New Year’s Day. Anoushah Rasta reports.

The Bay Area’s strongest storm of the season has passed, but lingering showers and runoff could still create flooding problems. Jeff Ranieri reports.

A ex-con who spent more than 30 years in prison for murder is now being hailed a hero after saving someone suffering from a drug overdose at San Francisco’s Civic Center station. Laura Sambol reports.

Billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg filed official paperwork to run for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. It is a key procedural move and not a declaration that he is indeed running. A spokesman for Bloomberg explained that filing in the state of Alabama started a 15-day process to file with the FEC. “This is not an...

Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while the administration says it’s focusing on quality over quantity in pollution cases, using its enforcement resources to go after the biggest and worst offenders, an Associated Press analysis...

As conservative pundit Ann Coulter was set to speak at UC Berkeley on Wednesday night for an event named “Adios America” protesters and counter-protesters gathered outside the venue.

Hundreds of current and former police officers in San Francisco have filed a lawsuit involving the Hunter’s Point Shipyard, saying they were exposed to unsafe levels of hazardous materials when they worked in a SFPD building located at the old shipyard.

No criminal charges were filed Monday in the deadly shooting at an Orinda Airbnb rental on Halloween night, and the investigation is ongoing, according to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office.

Two people were found dead Monday morning in a vehicle that had crashed off of northbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

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.

Five people were arrested Thursday in four Bay Area cities in connection with the deadly Halloween night shooting at an Orinda house party, according to the mayor of Orinda.

Controversy at what cost? That’s what some UC Berkeley students are wondering about Ann Coulter’s visit next week.