Costa County

Antioch police on Monday made an arrest in the 1980 abduction, rape and killing of a teenage girl, the department said.

The Oakland City Council on early Wednesday morning approved a nearly $1 million settlement with a woman at the center of a sex abuse scandal that rocked the police department.

The widow of the gunman who carried out a deadly shooting at a Florida gay nightclub before he was killed has filed a petition in a California court to change the name of their son.

A family in Concord is shocked and unsettled after they say someone cut electricity to their home and left 56 American flags, seven of which were defaced with handwritten pro-Donald Trump messages, on their front lawn early Saturday morning. The couple was preparing for bed just after midnight when Jay heard someone fiddling with their screen door. When he went...

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe and held in Antioch by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officers liable for failing to supervise her captor.

Activists and relatives of a teenage woman at the center of a San Francisco Bay Area police sex scandal say they want to know if any of the more than two dozen law enforcement officials implicated earlier this year will face criminal charges.

Jurors who threaten to derail trials by researching them on Google or posting comments about them on Twitter are often dismissed with nothing more than a tongue-lashing from a judge.

The family of a woman who committed suicide has filed a claim against the the City of Antioch and a Contra Costa County hospital.

Santa Rosa firefighters say a hoverboard is most likely the cause of a fire that severely damaged a home and ended up killing a family’s two dogs.