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After a year of pleading not guilty to 16 felony counts including sex crimes against multiple minors and providing them drugs, 24-year-old Michael Russell, originally from San Jose, agreed to a plea deal Tuesday.

After nearly a year of reporting on a teen girl’s fentanyl-related death, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit was in court when her accused drug dealer changed his plea. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen has today’s development, and the questions still hanging over this case.

There’s new information about threats of gun violence allegedly made by a VTA bus driver against his co-workers earlier this summer. Documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit give a clearer picture of what led up to Douglas Lofstrom’s arrest, and how the VTA responded.

Dozens of Northern California Catholic priests and church employees – some still working, others retired or deceased – are being publicly accused for the first time of sexually abusing children in their care.

Hundreds of new allegations against Northern California priests, including some who still work in the Bay Area, have come to light. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen has the latest in our investigation into Catholic clergy abuse.

A former Palo Alto police sergeant facing criminal assault charges for roughing up a city resident during a 2018 arrest had a prior reputation for using force and a questionable nickname among fellow officers to match, according to recent court records filed by Santa Clara County prosecutors.

The 61-year-old Oklahoma woman charged in the 1993 slaying of a convenience store owner in San Carlos appeared in court Wednesday after waiving extradition and agreeing to come to California to face prosecution.

The California State Board of Pharmacy is currently investigating a large increase in reported pharmacy errors and whether pandemic-related workforce issues played a role in the spike. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.

The California State Board of Pharmacy is currently investigating a large increase in reported pharmacy errors and whether pandemic-related workforce issues played a role in the spike.

A stream of cement trucks regularly rumbles by Gayle Hart’s townhouse on Gilman Avenue in Hunters Point, headed to and from construction sites throughout San Francisco.

Some people in San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood say their area is being bombarded with all the dust from a concrete plant that’s been cited for not having proper air quality permits. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

An East Bay man serving prison time for talking about wanting to kill some 10,000 Bay Area residents may get out of prison early.

Two parents who first warned police and school officials about the Los Gatos mom accused of teen sex and drinking parties, Shannon O’Connor, told NBC Bay Area they were failed by school and police authorities, putting more children in harm’s way.

Two parents who first warned police and school officials about the Los Gatos mom accused of teen sex and drinking parties, Shannon O’Connor, told NBC Bay Area they were failed by school and police authorities, putting more children in harm’s way. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.

Former San Francisco Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru agreed Friday to plead guilty to wire fraud in a federal investigation into public corruption at City Hall.

PG&E has agreed to pay a $40 million fine and another $85 million to properly decommission a total of 70 unused transmission lines like the one that sparked the Kincade fire two years ago, according to a deal announced by state regulators.

Crews began installing a 100-foot long steel casing deep into the ground on Tuesday, a test that engineers working on the troubled fix of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower hope will prove that modified construction methods will prevent more sinking and leaning at the troubled high rise.

There was a flurry of work at San Francisco’s Millennium Tower Tuesday, as construction crews resumed drilling for a key test on the stability of the soil around the sinking high-rise. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Millennium Tower fix engineers want homeowners to sign off on a plan to install a new test pile 200 feet down to bedrock to learn what triggered sudden settlement during their earlier work to bolster the already tilting high-rise.

Millennium Tower fix engineers want homeowners to sign off on a plan to install a new test pile 200 feet down to bedrock to learn what triggered sudden settlement during their earlier work to bolster the already tilting high-rise. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.