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Dec. 16, 1951-Oct. 7, 2023 WATERTOWN, S.D. — A celebration of life for Greg Ahern, 71, of Watertown, SD, will be held Sunday at the Horvath Remembrance Cent

Is Alameda County's new sheriff fulfilling campaign promise of 'transformational change'? Jail opponents agree that Yesenia Sanchez is doing better than the past administration but that there's a very long way to go.

Law enforcement leadership looks a lot different at the county level this month. New District Attorney Pamela Price and Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez were formally sworn into office last week after their monumental elections to shake up ...

It was a historic moment Tuesday as Yesenia Sanchez was sworn in as Alameda County sheriff. 

The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.

Civil rights attorney Pamela Price will be sworn in as the first Black district attorney in Alameda County following a close election race that first had her trailing behind her challenger and longtime county prosecutor Terry Wiley.

Pamela Price has all but certainly been elected to the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County, becoming the first Black person to hold the job — beating out opponent Terry Wiley to take over from retiring DA Nancy O'Malley.

A total of 41 Alameda County sheriff's deputies, who were stripped of their law enforcement duties last month because they received unsuitable marks on their psychological exams, have been returned to their posts and given back their badges and guns, KTVU has learned.

The state agency vested with the power of overseeing the hiring and training of law enforcement in California will now be auditing every police department in three Bay Area counties stemming from revelations that 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies were hired despite getting "not suitable" marks on their psychological exams.

California's Alameda County has stripped 47 sheriff's department deputies of the authorization to carry a weapon and make arrests after an audit turned up failed psychological examinations.