A man has been jailed and charged with murder after he apparently confessed to strangling his wife with a rope and dumping her body in the Santa Cruz Mountains, according to authorities and court documents.
Two young girls died in a chain-reaction wreck on Highway 152 on Friday morning, which California Highway Patrol investigators say was caused by a driver who veered into oncoming traffic while trying to pass a big rig.
A man was intentionally run down by a driver Wednesday in North San Jose, which detectives are investigating as the city's first homicide of the year, police said.
A man jailed after an investigation into his ex-girlfriend's death unearthed allegations that he molested one of her children has now been charged with killing the woman.