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An Oakland man was found guilty Friday of capital murder in the killings of an 8-year-old girl at a sleepover in 2013 and a 22-year-old man during a robbery in Berkeley later that year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

UC Berkeley police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction of whoever shot and killed a Fremont man after he intervened in a fight at a popular view spot in the East Bay on Mother's Day 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Afeni Shakur Davis, political activist, philanthropist and mother of the renowned rapper Tupac Shakur, died Monday night in Marin County at the age of 69, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman was shot to death in San Jose early Saturday, and her husband was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A young man killed in a car accident south of Pacifica was recalled Wednesday as an energetic and intelligent player in San Francisco's political scene. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A female pedestrian died after being struck and dragged by two cars on a connector ramp between two South Bay highways in Los Gatos on Monday morning, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman who may have been crawling on Interstate 280 in San Francisco was struck and killed early Monday morning, California Highway Patrol officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A decision by prosecutors to seek the death penalty in a high-profile Oakland murder case going to trial Monday is focusing renewed attention on capital punishment in a state where no prisoners have been executed in more than a decade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was shot and killed in Oakland Friday night, the city's third homicide in two days, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police are downplaying suggestions that the devil-worshiping loner known as the "Night Stalker" might have had a child sidekick when he raped and strangled a San Francisco girl more than 30 years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was a murder trial full of firsts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman suffered serious injuries when she was stabbed by her son, who then fatally stabbed himself in San Jose, authorities said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was shot dead in the Iron Triangle area of Richmond on Thursday evening and police said his killer remained on the run Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The inmate killed in his cell at a Sacramento-area prison this week was identified by officials Thursday as 53-year-old Darryl Staples, who was serving a life sentence for beating a Mill Valley man to death with a fire extinguisher in 1983 after the victim let him stay at his home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 27-year-old man was found shot dead on a Santa Rosa street Wednesday evening, authorities said, though few details about the incident were released. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An infant was killed in a three-alarm fire that ripped through an apartment complex in Vallejo Wednesday night, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An inmate serving a life sentence at a state prison outside of Sacramento for a Marin County murder conviction was found dead in his cell Monday, the victim of a homicide prison officials believe was committed by his cellmate, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Investigators in Oakland are looking into a shooting Monday evening that left a Hayward man dead, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man found 150 feet down a cliff near Devil's Slide in San Mateo County Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Vallejo police are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year-old man dead on the south side of the city Sunday night, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two people died early Monday morning when a two-alarm fire ripped through an East Oakland apartment building that neighbors said had become a source of trouble after two blazes earlier this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 22-year-old died man died Thursday after he was hit by a car while crossing a street in San Jose the day before, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The pilot of a small plane who died when the aircraft went down in Castro Valley Tuesday was identified by family members as John Sacco of Rocklin (Placer County) - whom Gov. Jerry Brown appointed to the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board earlier this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Salinas couple accused of killing two children in their custody and severely abusing a third were charged with murder, child abuse, torture and conspiracy, prosecutors said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police are investigating a homicide in the city's Inner Sunset neighborhood after a man was found dead across from Golden Gate Park Thursday afternoon, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland police are investigating a double homicide after a shooting left two people, one a juvenile, dead Monday night, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found injured in a homeless encampment in the Mission District last week and later died at a hospital, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police launched a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Friday morning, though few other details on the killing were released, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SALINAS - The tiny one-bedroom apartment where Tami Joy Huntsman lived with at least five children - two of them now believed to be dead - was in such disarray when investigators arrived that they boarded up the windows, red-tagged the place and didn't bother to fix the door they busted open. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 63-year-old bicyclist was killed after being struck head-on by a car in San Francisco's Portola neighborhood Monday morning, and the driver who hit him was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One man died and another was injured after both were stabbed during a fight near Golden Gate Park early Saturday morning, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two teenagers were killed and three other people were injured in a head-on collision in San Jose on Thursday night, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman who was found shot to death in a crashed car in Richmond was a 20-year-old Marin County resident, authorities said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Vallejo man died over the weekend after he got separated from his friend while diving for abalone off the Mendocino County coast, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Jose police are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found near a creek on the east side of the city Friday morning, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One person was killed and three others were injured when a driver lost control of a car on Interstate 580 in Oakland Friday morning and it went airborne and hit two trees, throwing two of the passengers from the vehicle, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The man charged with gunning down an artist as he worked on an antiviolence mural in Oakland had to be forcibly removed from a courtroom Tuesday after a wild expletive-laced outburst aimed at a judge reading a litany of charges against him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was arrested in connection with the death of an artist who was gunned down this year as he worked on an antiviolence mural in Oakland, police said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was shot to death and another was fatally stabbed in separate incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood that occurred less than a mile apart, a police official said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An 18-year-old suspect in at least three deadly shootings in three different cities apparently took his own life Thursday after barricading himself in an East Oakland Motel 6 and ignoring orders from police to surrender, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A suspect was arrested in the slaying of an ice cream truck driver who was gunned down in a midday attack in Oakland last month that the city's mayor called an act of "senseless violence," police said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One person died and two were injured in San Jose when a pickup truck hit a tree Monday morning, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California corrections officials proposed a new one-drug execution protocol Friday in an effort to conform to a judge's order nearly a decade ago that ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method unconstitutional, but experts say it doesn't mean the resumption of capital punishment any time soon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The student accused of stabbing four people at UC Merced on Wednesday morning before campus police shot and killed him was a teenager who had recently graduated from a Bay Area high school, said officials who found a two-page "manifesto" in his pocket that revealed an elaborate plan to harm students and identified those he was angry at. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two deaths in Santa Cruz County have been linked to counterfeit Xanax containing a powerful opioid just a few weeks after similar fake pills were found in San Francisco, where three people died of overdoses, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A pedestrian was killed early Friday when he was struck by a sports utility vehicle on a Milpitas street, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Four of the five people killed in a fiery head-on wreck near Yosemite National Park last week were identified Thursday as Bay Area women, officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman was found stabbed to death in a downtown San Jose apartment, and police arrested her 28-year-old ex-boyfriend on suspicion of killing her, officials said Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]