Susie Neilson

Richmond Police Chief Bisa French requested an "outside entity" investigate after video captured an officer striking a man filming an arrest from the sidewalk.

Kwesi Guss s filed a claim against Richmond Wednesday alleging his civil rights were violated when an officer struck and detained him for filming an arrest.

The prisons department and 14 other agencies used a pseudoscientific technology to assess prisoners' credibility during investigations, the Chronicle found.

As federal agents combed through the homes of David Duong and his son, the spotlight intensified on their growing influence on Oakland politics.

Oroville's Thompson Fire barely grew overnight, giving firefighters the chance to make additional progress containing the blaze as the temperature soars.

Berkeley police responded to a reported shooting when they found a trail of blood that led them to a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.

Former Bay Area U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier said she was recently diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.

The California prison system moved to ban the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer following a Chronicle investigation into the controversial technology.

California's prison system has moved to ban the use of a controversial lie-detector test — compared by one expert to a Ouija board or an astrological chart — following an investigation into the technology.

Following the shooting of Ricky Pearsall of the San Francisco 49ers, here's what police data says about crime rates in Union Square, where he was shot.