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A South Bay college student used a Snapchat filter to pretend he was an underage girl online and take down a San Mateo police officer allegedly looking to hook up on Tinder.

Five teens have been arrested in a string of San Jose robberies and carjackings that took place in March and involved the use of a fake account on the dating app Tinder, according to the San Jose Police Department.

After a three-month stay behind bars, ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner is scheduled to be released from custody on Friday, which prompted demonstrators to schedule a rally in protest of what they say is a far too lenient punishment.

A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman ignited widespread outrage will leave jail three months early.

A brawl involving at least 20 inmates prompted a lockdown of the Santa Clara County Jail Thursday afternoon, officials said.

Police say the body of a South Bay homicide victim was found Thursday in Santa Cruz County.

A Los Altos, California, man who was arrested on suspicion of killing his co-worker was in court to face murder charges Wednesday afternoon, two days after he said in a jailhouse interview that he is innocent and is part of a plot stranger than a “science fiction novel, really.” Steve Hlebo, will be continued to be held without bail in...

A Los Altos, California, man who was arrested on suspicion of killing his co-worker told NBC Bay Area in a jailhouse interview Monday he didn’t do it and had been set up. “I was framed,” Steve Hlebo, 39, said from jail.

A good Samaritan was shot and killed after trying to assist an allegedly intoxicated motorist stranded on an icy highway in North Carolina on Friday, NBC News reported. A group of three people pulled over to help when they spotted a stuck car that slid off the road in Catawba around 5:30 p.m. local time, according to Catawba County Sheriff...

A Santa Clara County employee who works at the Main Jail in San Jose has been reassigned after turning away a murder suspect who was trying to turn himself in, according to the sheriff.

Three Santa Clara County Sheriff’s correctional deputies have been arrested on suspicion of murder, conspiracy and assault “under color of authority,” jail records showed Thursday, following an in-custody inmate death last week.

The San Francisco 49ers released Aldon Smith Friday after the linebacker was arrested on suspicion of DUI, hit-and-run and vandalism. “This organization has tried very hard to help Aldon fight his issues,” the team said in a statement. “Although he is no longer a member of this team, our support and concern for him will continue.”

San Jose police are investigating a security breach at San Jose airport Sunday – the third since April at this airport – and have arrested a suspect on charges of trespassing and stealing a maintenance worker’s vehicle.