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(KRON)-- A body was discovered in the Bay near the Ferry Building on Sunday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD). Around 7:35 p.m., SFFD responded to San Francisco's Embarcadero area after a witness reported seeing a body floating in the water. Fire crew...
An investigation is underway after a body was found in the San Francisco Bay Sunday near the Ferry Building and taken to a nearby fire station. It's not clear if the body is connected to the boat that sank near Alcatraz last month, where one person is still missing....
Andon Market’s AI manager “Luna” fired its first employee in the “high-tech meets slow life” boutique.
The Timber Fire in Big Sur has burned more than 5,100 acres with more than 2,00 firefighters sent to fight it. As of Monday morning, it was 17% contained. Another large fire is burning in Humboldt County...
Officials released new details Monday on the death of actress Hayden Panettiere , whose sudden passing at the age of 36 sent shockwaves across the country. Police in Greenville, South Carolina , said in a statement that officers “accompanied by EMS personnel, responded to a repor...
Hayden Panettiere’s costars, friends and peers are paying tribute to the late actress, who soared to fame as a cheerleader with superpowers in the TV show “Heroes” and won country music success playing a singer on “Nashville.” Police in Greenville, South Carolina, said Panettiere...
An investigation is underway after a body was recovered from the San Francisco Bay near the Ferry Building Sunday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Firefighters responded at about 7:37 p.m. to a report of a possible bay rescue near the Ferry Building and se...
(KRON) -- Crews responded to a fire that broke out in a garage in San Francisco's Castro District on Sunday, the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) announced in a social media post. The fire broke out at a home on the 600 block of Castro Street. The fire has been extinguished. ...
A 36-year-old parolee and registered sex offender was arrested after allegedly forcing entry into a Santa Rosa home and preventing residents from leaving, police said Saturday. Santa Rosa Police Department officers were dispatched to a residence in the 2700 block of Mohawk Street...
Vishal Garg feels duped. “He hoodwinked me,” the just-ousted Better Home & Finance CEO said about Daniel Lewis.
(KRON) -- The Fremont Police Department said officers responded to a report of an assault at a Mowry Street retail store on Aug. 5. According to FPD, a suspect struck the victim in the face with a metal pole. The victim was treated at the scene for their injuries. The suspect fle...
Fire crews made progress digging and reopening fire containment lines.
(KRON)-- Police swarmed the TJ Maxx at the South Shore Shopping Center Saturday afternoon. Video from a KRON4 producer shows multiple officers on the scene. This is a developing story. Check back for updates....
A mail theft investigation in Sunnyvale led to the arrest of two people and the recovery of more than 80 pounds of suspected stolen mail connected to victims across several Bay Area cities, authorities said....
(BCN)-- A registered sex offender was arrested in Santa Rosa on Friday night after allegedly breaking into a home and trapping residents inside. Edward Carver, 36, was also accused by the Santa Rosa Police Department of peeping into the window of another residence earlier that ni...
(KRON)-- A gradual warming and drying trend gets underway today and continues into next week. Morning and evening low clouds with a chance of patchy drizzle will linger through the weekend, along with gusty onshore winds through the gaps and passes. As high pressure builds in ear...
Michigan State Police are investigating after six people were found dead at three locations in northern Michigan Friday.
Firefighters were battling a brush fire in the East Bay on Saturday, according to Cal Fire. Cal Fire said the forward progress of the blaze, dubbed the Grant Fire, was stopped as it burned up to 7 acres. The fire was reported in the area of I-580 near Grant Line Road. This story ...
A person was shot during an attempted robbery in Alameda Saturday, according to the police department. Police said at approximately 1:15 p.m., they responded to a parking lot in the South Shore Shopping Center, where a suspect demanded property from the victim. The victim refused...
A Florida man charged in the 1987 killing of a 20-year-old mother allegedly confessed after contacting authorities himself and investigators say he described details of the crime scene that had never been publicly released....
A family of innocent bystander killed during an unauthorized police chase in Oakland reacts to $17 million settlement awarded by the city.
The City of Oakland has agreed to pay $17 million to four family members who were injured in an unauthorized police "ghost chase" that also killed a 28-year-old relative....
A shooting involving multiple suspects and five people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown early Saturday. The shooting happened near the university’s Quad Annexes, and both campus police and Chesterfield County police are actively investigating. County p...
A woman who died after her electric scooter collided with a vehicle in San Francisco last week has been identified. The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the woman as 32-year-old Yebin Kim....
The San Francisco firefighting community celebrated former fire captain Tony Steffani. He spent 29 years with the San Francisco Fire Department but had to step down after being diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2001. Steffani then founded the San Francisco Firefighter Cancer Preve...
Multiple media reports state that two American Airlines planes that shared the same flight number almost got into a crash over Phoenix, but some quick thinking from air traffic control managed to prevent a catastrophe....
A Half Moon Bay teacher and coach was arrested on allegations that he sexually abused a former student who was a minor at the time.
Violent crime fell sharply across the United States in 2025, continuing a broader decline that is also playing out across the Bay Area, according to newly released FBI data and local police departments....
The Army on Friday announced it's temporarily grounding all Apache helicopter flights following the fatal crash near Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this week....
The district attorney's office said it can’t rule out whether the suspect acted in self-defense, or in defense of others. Suspect arrested for fatal Sunnydale shooting released, citing ‘insufficient evidence’...
(KRON) -- It was 25 years ago when Tony Stefani, a San Francisco Fire Rescue Squad Captain, received news that forever changed his life. Doctors had detected a rare form of cancer, starting in his pelvis. At 49 years old, his entire kidney would need to be removed. Friday, he sto...
(KRON) -- A former employee of the Pleasant Hill Tourism Improvement District faces multiple felony charges tied to an embezzlement and bribery scheme following a year-long criminal investigation, according to the Pleasant Hill Police Department. PHPD said a contracted company re...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A young great blue heron was rescued from Lake Merced by the San Francisco Police Department's Special Marine Unit on Thursday, after its legs became untangled in a fishing line. SFPD's Special Marine Unit was able to get to the great blue heron and hand i...
(KRON) -- A man was arrested Wednesday in connection to a series of burglaries in Lafayette earlier this week. The Lafayette Police Department identified the suspect and sent detectives to a home on Alhambra Way in Martinez to serve a warrant. The suspect saw the police and took ...
The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers.
A person has been arrested in connection with vandalism at The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday....
A Half Moon Bay teacher and coach was arrested on allegations that he sexually abused a former student who was a minor at the time, authorities said.
(KRON) -- A Half Moon Bay man who is a coach and teacher with the Cabrillo Unified School District was arrested Thursday on allegations of child sex crimes involving a former student, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Paul A. Farnsworth, 61, was arrested on susp...
The fire began on Aug. 7 in Humboldt County.
Police said investigators believe the manager set the blaze at the store.
The East Bay SPCA nonprofit shelter shared that all 16 abandoned puppies found in a Livermore Walmart parking lot back in July have been adopted. On July 8, local advocates who help with rescuing lost and missing animals were alerted to a large group of puppies in a brushy area o...
Redwood City police announced a startling discovery following a liquor store fire last fall, where two people were found dead inside: A manager was found with a locked chain around one of his wrists next to the body of another employee following the aftermath of the blaze, which ...
(KRON) -- One of the two men who were found deceased in a large fire that gutted a Redwood City liquor store in 2025 is believed to have started the blaze, according to an investigative update released Thursday by police. The fire fully engulfed Avenue Liquors on Roosevelt Avenue...
In the last six years since the CZU Lightning Complex fire humbled the giant redwoods of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the park has slowly crawled back to life. Astride the blackened, hollowed carcasses of fallen trees, some trails have reopened, and ...
The Army on Friday identified the two Fort Hood helicopter pilots who were killed when their Apache crashed during a maintenance test flight in central Texas....
A Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023....
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A massage therapist previously convicted in 2023 of sexual battery was found guilty Thursday of multiple sex crimes committed during a 2024 massage appointment in Millbrae, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. Guosheng Chen, 48, wa...
Erin Burke, a former employee at Newtown Discovery Preschool in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was arrested after the alleged assault of a 2-year-old.
Isabelle Johnson, a suspected murderer who authorities say had been using multiple disguises and identities, has been arrested and taken into custody.
The city of Oakland has agreed to pay the family of a 28-year-old man killed at a taco truck during an unauthorized police "ghost chase" $17 million.
The Timber Fire near Big Sur continues to grow and had spread to 4,545 acres as of Friday morning while firefighters continue to battle the massive blaze amid tough conditions, according to Cal Fire. The wildfire remains 7% contained, Cal Fire said in an update around 6:35 a.m. T...
CAL FIRE and the Ventana Wildlife Society went on a three hour rescue mission to save two Condors trapped in a sanctuary in Big Sur. Condors 340 and 868 were safely returned to the wild as seen on video from the middle of the Timber Fire....
(KRON) -- The Napa County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that it arrested Robert Taylor Free, 63, of Napa for allegedly possessing child sexual assault material. Free was booked into the Napa County Department of Corrections, where his bail is set at $50,000, according to NC...
(KRON) -- The daughter of a woman killed in a solo-vehicle collision in Fairfield last weekend has started a GoFundMe to help with funeral costs. The Fairfield Police Department responded to the incident just before 5:40 p.m. Saturday at Neitzel Road, near Business Center Parkway...
(KRON) -- A massive fire destroyed a Burger King in San Jose early Thursday morning, according to the San Jose Fire Department. The fire happened at the chain's location at 5154 Moorpark Ave. in San Jose. SJFD responded to the fire at 5:15 a.m., and the fire was knocked down at a...
Maribel Matias, 24, was killed by a hit-and-run driver near 73rd and Garfield avenues in East Oakland, across from the Oakland police Eastmont substation....
A wildfire burning along California’s rugged Big Sur coast has been difficult for firefighters to access and contain.
A San Francisco fire boat escorted the Pleasanton native her through the thick morning fog to celebrate the milestone.
Court records show a man with the same age and name as a suspect arrested for the killing of Tertron Johnson is connected to a prior murder. Man arrested for Sunnydale killing linked to 2015 drive-by shooting of 2 teenagers...
(KRON) -- An investigation is underway after a quick-moving fire Wednesday night in Suisun City damaged three multi-family residential buildings and displaced eight families, according to fire officials. The American Red Cross is providing support and resources for all the fire v...
