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Death row inmate dies in San Quentin cell
A condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison was found unresponsive and pronounced dead early Thursday morning, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Sam Brasure was...Read More
Nearly 30 years later, man pleads guilty to murder of 14-year-old girl
A Castroville man has pleaded guilty to the 1990 murder of a teenager and the attempted kidnapping in 1993 of another teenager, Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced...Read More
San Quentin death row inmate fatally stabbed
A San Quentin State Prison death row inmate was fatally stabbed Friday morning.Read More
Oakland man sentenced in murder over tree-trimmings dispute
A 66-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting another man during a dispute over tree trimmings in front of his...Read More
Inmate convicted of murdering cellmate
A convicted murderer and prison inmate was convicted and sentenced of a first-degree murder that he committed while incarcerated at the Salinas Valley State Prison.Read More
Bay Area suspects in Chicago murder arrested
A man accused of being involved in a homicide in Chicago last month has turned himself in to San Francisco police.Read More
Sierra LaMar’s killer avoids death sentence
A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury Monday imposed a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for Antolin Garcia-Torres.Read More
Sierra LaMar family reacts to guilty verdict
Antolin Garcia-Torres was found guilty in San Jose Tuesday morning for the first-degree murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar in 2012.Read More
Jury convicts Sierra LaMar’s killer of first-degree murder
Antolin Garcia-Torres was found guilty by a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury Tuesday for the first-degree murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar.Read More
Vacaville inmate death investigated as homicide
The death of a California Medical Facility inmate found in a pool of blood at the prison hospital is under investigation as a possible homicide.Read More
74-year-old professor gets 50 years for chopping up 29-year-old wife
A former professor was sentenced Wednesday for the 2012 murder of his ex-wife who he dismembered in Monterey.Read More
Jury convicts killer of eight-year-old girl
Darnell Williams looked straight ahead and showed no emotion Friday when jurors convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder.Read More
Burglar convicted of killing Oakland artist
A two-time convicted burglar was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for fatally stabbing an award-winning artist at the victim's home in West Oakland.Read More
Pair could face death penalty over storage locker horror
A woman and a teenage boy who recently moved away from Salinas are facing charges in the deaths of two young children found in a storage unit in Redding.Read More
Killer pleas guilty in 2010 Alameda murder
In an unusual move, an Oakland man pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old man in Alameda.Read More
Cellmate suspected in grisly prison killing
An inmate at California State Prison, Solano was brutally murdered during a brawl at the medium security facility in Vacaville in May.Read More
Killer pleads no contest in 1986 murder
A man accused of raping and killing a Ben Lomond teenager and then dumping her body in pleaded no contest to a first-degree murder charge.Read More