A 21-year-old man was arrested Monday evening in connection with the disappearance of Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. Antolin Garcia-Torres of Morgan Hill was booked into Santa Clara County Jail and is facing charges of murder and kidnapping, sheriff's Sgt. Jose Cardoza said. Sierra, 15, disappeared after she left for school on the morning of March 16. Investigators later found Sierra's cellphone off ......
By Bay City News Service 5/21/12 11:49 p.m. PDT
Early this morning, three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot while serving warrants in Petaluma. According to reports, their injuries were not life-threatening and a suspect was taken into custody. ABC 7 reported that the warrants were part of an investigation into a 2010 triple homicide involving gang members and that this morning's raid was part of a larger gang sweep. The manager of a Best Western Inn told the ......
The man accused of killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at Oakland's Oikos University earlier this month pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and other charges in Alameda County Superior Court Monday afternoon. One Goh, 43, entered his not-guilty pleas at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland at a 2 p.m. hearing. Goh appeared in court dressed in red jail clothes, accompanied by ......
By Bay City News Service 4/30/12 3:15 p.m. PDT
Two people were hit by gunfire early this morning in separate shootings in San Francisco, police said. The first shooting was reported at 2:18 a.m. at Broadway and Montgomery Street, police said. One victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition. A second shooting occurred around 3 a.m. on Potrero Hill. A more specific location of the shooting was unclear. Police said they were notified about the injured victim once they arrived at San ......
By Bay City News Service 4/29/12 5:11 p.m. PDT
Months of volunteer work at a state park in San Francisco's Bayview District was uprooted over the weekend when vandals destroyed thousands of plants and broke gardening equipment at a restoration nursery. The vandalism occurred sometime late Sunday night or early Monday morning at a nursery in the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, located at 1150 Carroll Ave. in the shadow of the Candlestick Park stadium. Patrick Rump, executive director ......
By Bay City News Service 4/25/12 1:35 p.m. PDT