A wily car thief in Richmond yesterday stole a family's vehicle while they had stepped briefly inside their home for a bathroom break. What the thief failed to notice was the five-year-old girl asleep in the backseat. more ›

Now this? Is our kind of criminal. With no way to get to his auto-theft trial in Vallejo, tenacious Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff did what comes naturally to him: he stole a car and drove it to the courthouse. more ›