POLICE SPOKESPERSON

New regulations went into effect on Monday for ride companies with dockless scooters, but if you own one yourself, the rules don’t apply. NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has more.

Days after new regulations on dockless scooter and bike companies went into effect across the county, a new group of riders have found a way to scoot around the rules.

Oakland police arrested at least two people and towed at least 85 cars while working at the scene of illegal sideshows at various locations across the East Bay city early Sunday, the department announced.

Police in Bakersfield, Calif. arrested a black teenager after she was mistaken by officers for a 30-year-old black man they were looking for, according to police reports and the teen’s account. In a video posted to Facebook, Tatyana Hargrove says an officer punched and then pinned her down as a police dog bit her leg just moments after she insisted...

A graduate student at UCLA shot and killed an engineering professor before taking his own life Wednesday in a murder-suicide that led to a lockdown and campus-wide search involving hundreds of officers, multiple law enforcement sources said.

Ruby Evans witnessed a van hit a police car in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday, sending the cruiser careening into a utility pole and injuring the officer — but it’s Evans’ on-camera reaction to the crash that’s getting all the attention.