Woman also shot. Police trying to determine if shootings are gang-related.

An alert Santa Clara police officer responded to reports of a shooting in San Jose near the border of the two cities and ended up arresting the man

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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Paris Hilton's latest run-in with the law began when a motorcycle officer got a whiff of suspicious smoke emanating from a Cadillac on the Las Vegas Strip.

Andrew Barrientos, who is accused of shooting veteran Fremont police Officer Todd Young, was arrested as he ran within feet of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The San Jose Fire Department responded to two nearly simultaneous fires on Saturday evening, according to fire dispatchers.

The San Francisco Bay Area is expected to be partly cloudy today, with inland conditions becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon.

A burning mattress caused a two-alarm fire in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Sunday morning, a fire dispatcher said.

         Two San Francisco police officers were involved in an exchange of gunfire in the city's Bayview neighborhood on Saturday night.

A woman leaped to her death this morning while trying to escape from a burning eighth-floor apartment in San Francisco, police said. Officers found the woman dead on the sidewalk on the 800 block of OFarrell Street, between Polk and Larkin streets, at about...

A 53-year-old homeless man was beaten to death Saturday near Kezar Stadium in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, police said. The city medical examiners office identified the victim as Michael Ponder. Officers found his body about 7:30 a.m., said Sgt. Troy...

A man threw himself in front of a Muni bus on a San Francisco street and was killed Saturday, police said. Officers determined the death was a suicide and the driver was not at fault, said Sgt. Troy Dangerfield, a police spokesman. It happened shortly after 6...

As a Fremont police officer clung to life Saturday, the suspect in his shooting was captured in San Diego just one block away from the U.S.-Mexico border by a sharp-eyed police officer. Andrew Barrientos shot at two Fremont officers as they tried to arrest...

NASAs Kepler spacecraft, whose powerful telescope is scanning the stars in the Milky Way, has discovered two giant planets with abruptly changing orbits around their star that could offer insights into the birth and history of solar systems everywhere in the...

Forget the Dow and the GDP. Heres the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldnt afford more mouths to feed. The birth rate dropped for the second year...