Man dies, another wounded in East Oakland shooting

• Police arrest woman in stabbing
  STOCKTON - A 53-year-old Stockton woman was arrested Monday evening after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the chest. Patricia Elaine Castellanos was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail o [...]
• Santa Barbara police arrest fugitive pimp suspect in Oakland
  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) _ Santa Barbara police detectives have arrested a 58-year-old woman in Oakland who authorities say helped her husband run a brothel then avoided capture for almost a decade. [...]
• Massive gang raids in central Richmond
  RICHMOND — Federal, state and local law enforcement officers raided a series of homes in central Richmond this morning to root out street gangs as part of a yearlong investigation into violence, guns [...]
• Organized gangs of thieves hit retailers hard
  (10-29) 18:15 PDT -- When state and federal law enforcement officers in June recovered more than $5.5 million in stolen goods and arrested 17 suspected members of a Bay Area shoplifting crime ring, it [...]
• Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage
  A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at a school Friday but was tackled outside a classroom without any harm to the children, police said. Randall Hofland, 55, had [...]