Castro Valley

A Castro Valley man has been charged with stealing other people’s identity to illegally obtain more than $1 million in unemployment benefits for people affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

An Amazon delivery driver is arrested after deputies say she attacked a woman at a Castro Valley apartment, who was waiting for a package. The incident was also caught on camera.

Eye-opening and frustrating. That’s how Millard Billings, a juror in the Ghost Ship trial, described what it was like to decide the fate of Derick Almena and Max Harris.

A passenger in a car in Interstate 580 was shot and injured Sunday evening a day after a Highway 4 shooting in Concord left a woman dead, the California Highway Patrol said.

As part of a controversial Urban Shield program, hundreds of emergency personnel and volunteers throughout the Bay Area took part in a massive earthquake drill Thursday.

Authorities in Castro Valley opened a hate crime investigation after a school district truck was marred with racist graffiti and damaged, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department announced Tuesday.

Police have identified a Bay Area man as the suspect in the fatal shooting of a California sheriff’s deputy in Sacramento.

A man beaten by sheriff’s deputies has reached a $5.5 million settlement with Alameda County, officials said Friday.

Two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies seen on surveillance video beating a man with batons in San Francisco’s Mission District have been fired, authorities said.

A widow, whose body was found at the scene of a Castro Valley house fire early Tuesday, was killed in a “brutal murder” before the suspect set her home ablaze to destroy evidence, Alameda County sheriff’s officials said.

Two Northern California sheriff’s deputies, who were seen beating a suspect on surveillance video last year, and a third deputy, accused of offering the man’s belongings to homeless witnesses so they would not speak out about what they saw, have been slapped with a civil lawsuit.

For some people, professing their political allegiance with a lawn sign just isn’t enough. A man in Castro Valley has painted the Bernie Sanders campaign logo on the roof of his home.

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee has been placed on leave after she was caught on cellphone video yelling slurs and throwing coffee and an umbrella at Muslim men praying in a park.

The Alameda County District Attorney on Thursday charged a Castro Valley woman with battery and violating a man’s civil rights after she was caught on cell phone video yelling anti-Muslim slurs, throwing coffee and striking the man with an umbrella at a park.

Park police are recommending misdemeanor battery charges against a woman who works for California Department of Corrections after she was caught on video making anti-Islamic slurs then throwing coffee and an umbrella at a group of Muslim men who had been praying at a Castro Valley park.

The Bay Area has a long and rich maritime tradition. But the seas off our coast have also become the final resting place for hundreds of tragic voyages.

Law enforcement officers and community members continued to pay their respects to slain Hayward police officer Sgt. Scott Lunger Wednesday, a day after he was fatally shot during a routine police stop.

A traffic stop ended in bloodshed early Wednesday morning when a California police officer was fatally shot, according to police. The officer was identified as Sergeant Scott Lunger in a statement by the Hayward Police Department.

A fourth-floor apartment building balcony collapsed onto the sidewalk just blocks from the University of California, Berkeley campus early Tuesday, killing six young people celebrating a 21st birthday and leaving seven other people injured, police said.